Translating Texts An Introductory Coursebook on Translation and Text Formation

Clear and accessible, this textbook provides a step-by-step guide to textual analysis for beginning translators and translation students. Covering a variety of text types, including business letters, recipes, and museum guides in six languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish), this book presents authentic, research-based materials to support translation among any of these languages.

Translating Texts will provide beginning translators with greater text awareness, a critical skill for professional translators. Including discussions of the key theoretical texts underlying this text-centred approach to translation and sample rubrics for (self) assessment, this coursebook also provides easy instructions for creating additional corpora for other text types and in other languages.

Ideal for both language-neutral and language-specific classroom settings, this is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate-level programs in modern languages and translation.

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Contributions

Editor and Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Translating Texts

Text Types: Samples with Text Analysis

2 Recipes

3 Instruction Manuals

4 Museum Guides

5 Patient Education Materials

6 News Reports

7 Business Letters

Appendix A: Sample Grading Rubric

Appendix B: How to Build a Corpus

References

Index

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at National Research University School of Higher Economics in Moscow, Russia. He is co-editor of Beyond the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Translation Pedagogy, author of Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature, and founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Christopher D. Mellinger is Assistant Professor of Spanish Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is co-author of Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies (Routledge) and the managing editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.