Thinking Arabic Translation
Thinking Arabic Translation is a comprehensive and practical 24-week course in translation method. Adapted from the successful French-based Thinking Translation (Routledge, 1992) it has been successfully piloted at Durham University.\ Clear explanations, discussion, examples and exercises enable students to acquire the skills necessary for tackling a broad range of translation problems. Examples are drawn from a variety of sources, including journalism and politics, legal and technical texts,...
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Thinking Arabic Translation is a comprehensive and practical 24-week course in translation method. Adapted from the successful French-based Thinking Translation (Routledge, 1992) it has been successfully piloted at Durham University. Clear explanations, discussion, examples and exercises enable students to acquire the skills necessary for tackling a broad range of translation problems. Examples are drawn from a variety of sources, including journalism and politics, legal and technical texts and literary and consumer-orientated texts. A Tutors' Handbook is available, which contains invaluable guidance on using the course.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction11Preliminaries to translation as a process62Preliminaries to translation as a product153Cultural transposition294Compensation405Denotative meaning and translation issues526Connotative meaning and translation issues66Introduction to the formal properties of texts777Phonic/graphic and prosodic issues in translation808Grammatical issues in translation969Sentential issues in translation11310Discourse and intertextual issues in translation12711Metaphor14612Language variety and translation: register, sociolect and dialect16213Textual genre as a factor in translation17514Translating technical texts18415Translating constitutional texts19616Translating consumer-oriented texts20717Revising and editing TTs21718Summary and conclusion228Glossary232References244Index250
