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In:Text Typology and Translation
Edited by Anna Trosborg
[Benjamins Translation Library 26] 1997
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 27 November 1997

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Table of contents

Introductionvii

Part I: Methodology

Text typology: register, genre and text type3

Text types and translation25

A functional typology of translation43

Christiane Nord

Text-type conventions and translating: Some methodological issues67

Approaches to Literary Genres

Text types and power relations87

Descriptions and criticism: Some approaches to the translations of Hans Christian Andersen99

Viggo Hjørnager

Part II: Domain- and Benre-specific texts

Strategies of translating political texts119

Christina Schäffner

Translating Hybrid Political texts145

Translation of medical research articles159

Morten Pilegaard

Translation of technical brochures185

Jens Hare Hansen

Translating legal Genres203

Part III: Terminology and lexicon

Synonymy and equivalence in special-language texts217

Margaret Rogers

Reference corpora and lexicons for translators and translation studies247

Texts Types and media constraints

Written to be spoken: The audio-medial text in translation277

Mary Snell-Hornby

Dubbing and the Dubbed text — style and cohesion291

Quality revisited: The rendering of English idioms in danish television subtitles vs. printed translations309

Henrik Gottlieb

Index339