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In:Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New perspectives and challenges in literature, interpretation and the media
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
[Benjamins Translation Library 17] 1997
► pp. v–x

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Published online: 3 April 1997

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Table of contents

Prefacexi

Acknowledgmentsxii

Introduction1

Fernando Poyatos

Part 1. Discourse and nonverbal communication

Aspects, problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation17

Fernando Poyatos

Discourse features in non-verbal communication: Implications for the translator49

Part 2. Cultures in translation

The identification of gestural images in Chinese literary expressions69

Some aspects of Japanese cultural ethos embedded in nonverbal communicative behaviour83

Part 3. Narrative literature

Alice abroad: dealing with descriptions and transcriptions of paralanguage in literary translation107

Christiane Nord

The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzoni’s I Promesse Sposi131

Pierangela Diadori

Punctuation in Hans Christian Andersen’s stories and in their translations into English151

Kirsten Malmkjær

Matching verbal and nonverbal communication in a holocaust memoir and its translation163

Part 4. Theater

“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”: The non-verbal language of drama187

Mary Snell-Hornby

Verbal and non-verbal constituents in theatrical texts and implications for translators203

Part 5. Poetry

“Whose morsel of lips will you bite?”: Some reflections on the role of prosody and genre as non-verbal elements in the translation of poetry217

Part 6. Interpretation

the reality of multichannel verbal-nonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation249

Fernando Poyatos

Kinesics and the simultaneous interpreter: the advantages of listening with one’s eyes and speaking with one’s body283

From babel to Brussels: Conference interpreting and the art of the impossible295

Part 7. the audiovisual channels for translation- film and television dubbing

Translating non-verbal information in dubbing315

Frederic Chaume

Dubbing and the nonverbal dimension of translation327

Patrick Zabalbeascoa

List of contributors343

Name index349

Subject index357