1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456685403321

Autore

Wilss Wolfram

Titolo

Knowledge and skills in translator behavior [[electronic resource] /] / Wolfram Wilss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c1996

ISBN

1-283-17445-6

9786613174451

90-272-8354-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Benjamins translation library, , 0929-7316 ; ; v. 15

Disciplina

418/.02/019

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - Psychological aspects

Discourse analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN TRANSLATOR BEHAVIOR; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER I. Translation Studies - Scope and Challenges; CHAPTER II. Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Translation Studies; CHAPTER III. Translation as Knowledge-Based Activity; CHAPTER IV. Context, Culture, Compensation. Three basic orientations in translation; CHAPTER V. Translation as Meaning-Based Information Processing; CHAPTER VI. The Translation Process and Translation Procedures; CHAPTER VII. The Role of the Translator in the Translation Process

CHAPTER VIII. Discourse Linguistics and TranslationCHAPTER IX. Translation as Decision-Making and Choice; CHAPTER X. Translation Teaching. A practice-oriented approach; CHAPTER XI. Human Translation and Machine Translation. A comparison; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book represents an approach which is intended to give readers a general insight into what translators really do and to explain the concepts and tools of the trade, bearing in mind that translation cannot be reduced to simple principles that can easily be separated from each



other and thus be handled in isolation. On the whole, the book is more process- than product-centred. Translation is seen as an activity with an intentional and a social dimension establishing links between a source-language community and a target-language community and therefore requiring a specific kind of communicat

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910289345703321

Autore

Miller Elizabeth Carolyn <1974->

Titolo

Framed : the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siècle / / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2008

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2008

ISBN

0-472-02446-9

1-282-44524-3

9786612445248

0-472-90047-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 284 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Digitalculturebooks

Classificazione

LIT000000LIT004120SOC028000

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerElizabeth C

Disciplina

823/.087209

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Female offenders in literature

Terrorism in literature

Consumption (Economics) in literature

Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Detective and mystery films - Great Britain - History and criticism

Women in popular culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 253.

Nota di contenuto

Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. Meade, and Madame



Rachel -- The limits of the gaze : class, gender, and authority in early British cinema -- Dynamite, interrupted : gender in James's and Conrad's novels of failed terror -- "An invitation to dynamite" : female revolutionaries in late-Victorian dynamite narrative.

Sommario/riassunto

By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siècle British crime narrative.