Thinking Spanish Translation
Thinking Spanish Translation
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Summary
Presents a comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation that offers advanced students of Spanish a practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with explanations of the theoretical issues involved. This title addresses such translation issues as: cultural differences register and dialect grammatical differences genre.
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Thinking Spanish Translation by Louise Haywood
The new edition of this comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved. A variety of translation issues are addressed, including: cultural differences register and dialect grammatical differences genre. With a sharper focus, clearer definitions and an increased emphasis on up-to-date ‘real world’ translation tasks, this second edition features a wealth of relevant illustrative material taken from a wide range of sources, both Latin American and Spanish, including: technical, scientific and legal texts journalistic and informative texts literary and dramatic texts. Each chapter includes suggestions for classroom discussion and a set of practical exercises designed to explore issues and consolidate skills. Model translations, notes and suggestions for teaching and assessment are provided in a Teachers’ Handbook; this is available for free download at http://www.routledge.com/cw/thinkingtranslation/ Thinking Spanish Translation is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish and translation studies. The book will also appeal to a wide range of language students and tutors through the general discussion of the principles and purposes of translation.
Louise M. Haywood is Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Michael Thompson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham.The late Sándor Hervey was Reader in Linguistics at the University of St Andrews.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780415481304 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415481309 |
| Title | Thinking Spanish Translation |
| Author | Louise Haywood |
| Series | Thinking Translation |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |