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In:Translation: Theory and Practice, Tension and Interdependence
Edited by Mildred L. Larson
[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series V] 1991
► pp. v–vii

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Published online: 1 January 1991
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Table of contents

Editor’s note: the interdependence of theory and practice1
Section 1. What happens when one translates
Seeking synapses: translators describe translating5
Translation and the space between: operative parameters of an enterprise13
Some images and analogies for the process of translation27
Section 2. Some theoretical aspects of translation
The unit of translation revisited38
The soviet concept of time and space49
Ever since Yan Fu and his criteria of translation63
Categorization and translation71
Section 3. Translating Non-prose genres
The translation of poetry87
Opera Translation100
Translation and social discourse: Shapespear, A playwright after Québec’s Heart120
Cultural transfers in the Translating of humor139
Section 4. Putting thoery to practice
Translation in theory and practice157
Sematic and communicative translation: two approaches, one method172
A communicative-oriented analysis of quality in nonliterary translation and interpretation188
Checking translation for meaning201
Section 5. Language specific issues in translation
Translation of prose fiction from english to hebrew: a function of norms (1960s and 1970s)206
The translator as editor: beginnings and endings in japanese-english translation224
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Section 6. Translation in the university setting
Case studies in teaching translation235
Human rights applied to translation: A case for language learners’ right to translate254
Contributors260
ATA Corporate Members263
ATA institutional members267
ATA officers and board of directors, 1991269
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