Discourse in Translation

by Said Faiq (Editor)

Overview

* festschrift to Basil Hatim, an extremely big name in this field of Translation Studies

* Roster of contributors from all across the world, including good representation from the Middle East

* Examples are truly global, spanning French, Spanish, Chinese, as well as Middle-Eastern contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351581172
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
Sales rank:	798,196
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Said Faiq, FRSA, is Professor of Intercultural studies and Translation at the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Foreword: Pragmatics on the hoof! Relevance as effort and reward

Basil Hatim

Introduction: Translation as D-discourse.

Said Faiq

1. Translating ‘translation’: What do translators ‘translate’?

Ernst Wendland

2. Theory and practice in the French discourse of translation

Richard Jacquemond

3. Specialist legal interpreters for a fairer justice system

Sandra Hale

4. Investigating mediation in translation

Hui Wang

5. Translation as the instigator of a new Arabic discourse in Islamic intellectual history

Gavin N. Picken

6. A toolbox for critical translation analysis in specialized discourse (English/Spanish)

Ovidi Carbonell Cortés

7. Types of connotative meaning, and their significance for translation

James Dickins

8. A case study of modality in legal translation: The Omani constitution

Mohammed Farghal

9. The translation of film titles in the Egyptian film industry

Muhammad Y Gamal

10. Strategic media misrepresentation and the Arab–Israeli conflict

Rajai Al-Khanji

Index