Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications - Hardcover

Munday, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415396948 ISBN 13: 9780415396943

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory.
Jeremy Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages – English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and English translations are provided. A wide variety of text types are analyzed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical text and a European Parliament speech. Each chapter includes the following features:

• a table introducing key concepts 
• an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories
• illustrative texts with translations
• a chapter summary
• discussion points and exercises.

Including a general introduction, an extensive bibliography, and websites for further information, this is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives a balanced and comprehensive insight into translation studies.

About this title

About the Author

Jeremy Munday is Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds where he works in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Translation Studies. He is a specialist in translation theory and his publications include The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies (Routledge, 2008), Style and Ideology in Translation: Latin American writing in English (Routledge, 2008) and Translation: An Advanced Resourcebook (Routledge 2004, with Basil Hatim).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415396948
• ISBN 13: 9780415396943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256