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Thinking French Translation

Sándor Hervey | Ian Higgins
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advanced French to English translation skills
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compensation
contrastive linguistics
cross-cultural pragmatics
Discourse
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Grammatical
language mediation
legal text analysis
Preliminaries
register variation
technical document translation
translation

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415255226
  • Weight: 457g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Aug 2002
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The new edition of this popular course in translation from French into English offers a challenging practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved. A variety of translation issues are considered including:
*cultural differences
*register and dialect
*genre
*revision and editing.

The course now covers texts from a wide range of sources, including:
*journalism and literature
*commercial, legal and technical texts
*songs and recorded interviews.

This is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of French on translation courses. The book will also appeal to wide range of language students and tutors.

A tutors' handbook offering invaluable guidance on how to use the text is available for free download at http://www.routledge.com/cw/thinkingtranslation/
About Ian Higgins | Sandor Hervey
Sándor Hervey was Reader in Linguistics at the University of St Andrews. Ian Higgins is Honorary Senior Lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews.

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