Translation: The Basics

Juliane House is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. She is the author of Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present (Routledge, 2015) and Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures (Routledge, 2016).

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Basic Issues in the Field of Translation; Chapter 1: What is Translation?; Chapter 2: Translation Competence; Chapter 3: Looking at Translation from Different Perspectives; Chapter 4: Culture and Ideology in Translation; Part 2: Some Much-Discussed Concepts in Translation Theory; Chapter 5: Possibilities and Impossibilities of Translation; Chapter 6: Universals of Translation?; Chapter 7: How Do we Know When a Translation is Good?; Part 3: Some Important New Trends in Translation Studies; Chapter 8: What goes on in Translators’ Heads when They are Translating?; Chapter 9: Using Corpora in Translation Studies; Chapter 10: Translation in the Age of Globalization and Digitalization; Part 4: Translation in the Real World; Chapter 11: Translation as a Communicative Practice in Globalized Business; Chapter 12: Can Culturally Embedded Concepts Really be Appropriately Translated?; Chapter 13: The Role of Translation in Language Learning and Teaching; Chapter 14: Translation as a Social Practice in Real-Life Situations; Glossary; References; Index