More paragraphs on translation

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title: More Paragraphs On Translation
author: Newmark, Peter.
publisher: Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin: 1853594032
print isbn13: 9781853594038
ebook isbn13: 9780585156156
language: English
subject Translating and interpreting.
publication date: 1998
lcc: P306.N4727 1998eb
ddc: 418/.02
subject: Translating and interpreting.
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MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
About Translation
PETER NEWMARK
Annotated Texts for Translation: FrenchEnglish
BEVERLY ADAB
Annotated Texts for Translation: EnglishFrench
BEVERLY ADAB
Constructing Cultures: Essays on Literary Translation
SUSAN BASSNETT and ANDRE LEFEVERE
Cultural Bumps: An Empirical Approach to the Translation of Allusions
RITVA LEPPIHALME
Cultural Functions of Translation
C. SCHAFFNER and H. KELLY-HOLMES (eds)
Discourse and Ideologies
C. SCHAFFNER and H. KELLY-HOLMES (eds)
Linguistic Auditing
NIGEL REEVES and COLIN WRIGHT
Paragraphs on Translation
PETER NEWMARK
Practical Guide for Translators
GEOFFREY SAMUELSSON-BROWN
The Coming Industry of Teletranslation
MINAKO O'HAGAN
Translation and Quality
C. SCHAFFNER (ed.)
Translation, Power, Subversion
ROMAN ALVAREZ and M. CARMEN-AFRICA VIDAL (eds)
Words, Words, Words. The Translator and the Language Learner
GUNILLA ANDERMAN and MARGARET ROGERS
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More Paragraphs On Translation
Peter Newmark
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1. Translating and interpreting. I Title.
P306.N4727 1998
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Contents
Introduction xii
I:
September 1992 1
Magritte on TV · Investments · The Three Modes of Reading · Coincidence in
Translation · Modern Translation · Loyalty · The Reims Museum of Fine Arts ·
The Status of the Translator · Thinking Translation · Rethinking Translation ·
Academia · Foreign Phrases · Végétatif · Functional Sentence Perspective · A
Tentative Order of Extracontextual Word Class Emphasis · Languages and
Tourism
II:
November 1992 9
Values · Translation and Literature · The Met · Criticism · Eagleton and Literary
Theory · Raw Copy · Puerto Rico · Quid Pro Quo and Quiproquo · Esperar · The
Museums of Florence · Personification · Translation's Role in National Identity ·
Saint Jerome · Mona Baker · Machine Translation and Machine Tools · Postscript
III:
January 1993 16
Halliday · Translation in South Africa · Modern Art in Rome · The Fourth Mode
of Reading · Linguistic Nationalism · Contrast and Continuation · Satie ·
Concision · Ambiguity · The Translation of Long Sentences into English · The
Translation of Songs · Fear of Literal Truth · Descriptive Terms, Collocations and
Technical Terms · Translators as Professionals · Why Translation Theory · Some
Teaching Points · Die Wahrheit, die Wahrheit'Be Truthful, or the Truth, Friend' ·
Theories of Translation · The Lost Transposition · The Morality of Art ·
Authoritative Texts · Traduttore, Traditore · The Translation of Irony
IV:
March 1993 26
German Translation Teaching Textbooks · Tracking Metaphors · Teaching or
Revision Tips · A Hunch · A Mismatch · Environmental Rights · André Lefevere
· A Truism · Transferred Words · Literary and Non-literary Translation ·
Semantic Slippage or Jargon · Teaching Tips · Menachem Dagut · Translating
Nonsense Verse · Minority Languages · Tangente · The Vatican Museums · Les
Gens du Passage · Parallèles · Faded Language · Italian-English Translation ·
Language International · Recettes de Cuisine
V:
May 1993 33
Diagrams · Professions and Professionels · The Beloved Country · Translation
and Linguistics · Additional TL Text Information ·

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Concept · Trials of a Translator · The Translation of Longer Sentences · The
Translation of Colloquial Language
VI:
July 1993 39
Lauren Leighton · The Moral Universal · Wie Rafft ich Mich aufin der Nacht ·
The Translation of Idioms · Corfu and Athens · Poetry Translation · Sexist
Language · ESIT · The Law of Titles · The University of Bir Zeit · Jerusalem and
Israel · Sorry · For Tiny Tots · Componential Analysis Register · Anthony Pym ·
Technical · Rouault · Translation Theory as a Comprehensive Frame of Reference
· Theodor Kramer · Four Correlations for Technical Translation · Some Tentative
Remarks on Frames · Amour Propre · Fauré and His Chansons · Another Latin
Tag · Reduction to Prose · Translation as Text · The Five Direct and the Three
Indirect Purposes of Translation: A Revised Version
VII:
September 1993 48
Variant Spellings · Golden Advice · Technical Terms · Translating or
Disentangling Zeugmas and Hendiadys · Contemporary Translation Theories ·
Theory · Anti-Goethe? · The Nord · The Translator Intervenes · Interlanguage ·
The Contracting Apostrophe
VIII:
November 1993 52
PC · Sarcastic · The Deadline · Translation Should (usually) be into the Modern
Language · Limits of Translation · The London Language Show · Norms and
Standards · It is Three O'Clock · Prescriptivism · Phrasal Adjectives · The Cave ·
Translation Facts · Titles of Periodicals · The Poetics of Translation · Howlers ·
The Evanescence of Idioms and Clichés · American Judiciary Interpreters and
Translators · Translating Eponyms · Tytler and Nietzsche · Text and Meaning
IX:
January 1994 58
The Barber Institute · La Patrie · Translation Studies at Birmingham University ·
Translating Metalanguage · Translation Material · Reception Theory and Hype ·
Galician Symposium · The Key to Technical Translation · Evil · An Israeli
Translation Theory of Peace · Greco-Latin Semi-Neologisms · Geographical
Features · Etymology in Translation Again · The Musée d'Orsay · Teaching
Translation and Detecting Allusions · Apostrophes · Literary and Non-Literary
Translation · Paraphrase as a Translation Procedure · The European School of
Literary Translation · The Meaning and Translation of Dashes · Translation for
Drama · The German Sog. · Figaro's Wedding by Jeremy Sams · Translation
Theory · La Serenissima · In Praise of Trieste · Some (additional) Translation
Exam-Day Hints

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March 1994 68
Translation Traduced · Book Reviews of Translations · The Disproved Familiar
Alternatives · The TL as Language of Habitual Use · Emphasis and Word Order
· Britannicus · Notes on Psychiatric Translation and the Diogenes Syndrome ·
Idioms
XI:
May 1994 75
Collocations Again · Los Fusilamientos · Translation · Book Reviews · Jeremy
Sams · Not Alone · The Literary Register · Titles and Christiane Nord · The
Quality of a Dictionary · Beverly Adab · Lisbon and Evora · Political Refugees ·
The Victoria Sandwich Cake · World English · The Order of Things!
XII:
July 1994 81
Proust Again · New York · T. S. Eliot on Translation · Organisation and
Ambition · National Languages for Export Week · Bilingual · Modern
Quotations · Standard Institutional Terms · Equivalent Effect Again · A
Counter-example · Reference Books · La Biodiversité en Panne · Brackets · The
Translation of Irony · De Gaulle · This and That in Discourse · Verbal Nouns ·
Proteus and Phrasal Words · Of Sources and Contrasts · Proper Names · Literal
Translation and Auden · Translating the Metalingual · Of Proust and Punctuation
· Case Grammar, Phrasal Nouns and Discourse Analysis · The Emphatic Power
of Verbal Nouns · The Singularly Emphatic Tongue
XIII:
September 1994 93
Connotation · Accessing Acronyms · Anti-Circumlocution (Umschreibung) ·
Quotations Again · Natural Translation · Past Participles as Nouns · The Shock
of Art and Music · German NounCompounds and Case Grammar · The
Translation of Geographical Terms · Kundera and Janácek · Some Austrian
Institutional Terms · Emphasis · Keywords and the Thread of a Text · The
French Obituary Future · Creating Metaphors in Translation · Jean Delisle ·
Proactive · Legal French · The New Eagleton · Wilss · The Paradoxes of
Translation · Reference Books
XIV:
November 1994 100
Reference Books Again · Concision and Brevity · Communicative and Semantic
· The Reine Sprache? · The Paradox of Translation · Platform Papers · The Farce
and the Truth of Literal Translation · The Ill Assorted Trio? · Translating
Literary Language · Multilingual Periodicals · A Better Matched Trio? ·
Financial Translation · The Music Deepens the Translation · The Translation of
Traditional and Historical Idioms · Quality in Translation · The Theory of
Translation · The Ripple Theory? · Language and Translation from Cicero to

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Tytler · Pragmatics and Translation · Translation Theory in the Former East · A
Thought Squib · The Focus of Translation
XV:
January 1995 110
Translating Difficult Sentences · An Amendment on Metaphor · Punctuation
Marks as Translation Procedures · Prescriptivism · Natural Translation Again ·
Another Paradox of (Literal) Translation · The Importance of the Source Text
Language · Translation Theories · Semi-Neologisms · The Interminable Mental
Journey · Translation · A Translation Class · Contrastive Business Language ·
The Perfect Translator · The Translation of Literary Language · To Translate ·
The Paramountcy of Content Words in Translation · Heights · Truisms and
Jargon · Translation is into the Translator's (Modern) Language · Faded
Metaphors · Names and Words · The Principle of Increasing Familiarity · Three
Conflicts · FrenchEnglish Dictionaries · The Source in the First Stage of
Translating · Dynamic Equivalence · A Cry · Absolute and Relative
XVI:
March 1995 119
Translation and Language Teaching · A Concise Definition of Translation · Try
the Negative · Fashions and Dates · T/V · The One-Off · Standards of German ·
Tale of a Quotation Hunt · Werner Koller · One of the Uses of Inverted Commas
XVII:
May 1995 123
Impressionism in Britain · General Words: a Warning · Raquel Merino Alvarez ·
Abstract Nouns · The Theory of Translation · False Friends or Faux Amis ·
Poetry · Language and Reality
XVIII:
July 1995 127
Biblical Translation · Alliteration Again · Zipf's Law and so on · A Clerisy
Theory of Written Languages · The Unfindable Word · The German Compounds
· The Rivista · Marking Translations · 'Don't Like the French . . . Don't Like
Their Lingo' · John Weightman · The Run Up to a Translation · Machine
Translation · Translation Studies and Corpus Linguistics · French Periphrases ·
Acronyms Again · Two French Traps · Translate Everything · The Best Source ·
The Dip Trans · Corpus-Based Dictionaries · The Translation of Institutional
Terms: The Sum · Colloquial Language · Redon and Poussin · Principles of
Translation · Paraphrase
XIX:
September 1995 136
The Equal Frequency Principle of Translation · Literary and NonLiterary
Language · Two Paradoxes of Translation · Translators in the EU: an
Economical Proposal · Juan Sager · Degrees of Excellence in

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Translation · Goya · Degrees of Translation · Venuti and Translation · Bilingual
Dictionaries · Dijon and Beaune · Frankfurt and Saarbrucken · Styles ·
Technical Translation · Words and Meaning · The British Centre for Literary
Translation · The Computer and the Translator · Botho Strauss · Translationese
and Translatorese · Translation Mistakes and Their Correction · The Translation
of Euphemism · Hybrid and Chum · Alliteration · Allies and Adversaries · The
T-V Relationship Again: Pronouns of Power, Solidarity and Contempt ·
Translation · The Translation of Metaphor: a Synthesis and a Frame of Reference
XX:
November 1995 145
Teaching Translation · Translating in the Dark and Contrast · Mad Translation
and Contrast · Trade Paper of the Future? · The Eternal Translation Deficit ·
Teaching and Beginning a Translation Course · In Search of the Right
Collocation · The Liverpool Translation Conference · The Clerisy Theory Again
· The Translation of Pauses and Silences · Janácek and Kundera
XXI:
January 1996 151
The Translation of Footnotes · The Translators' Peace International · The
Translation of Pauses · The Use and Abuses of Repetition in Translation · People
Shall Speak Unto Computers . . . and be Translated · The Importance of Standard
Terms · The Pointless Pun · The Shakespeare Wallah · The Translation of Jargon
· Formidable (F) · French Past Participles or Adjectives between Commas ·
Unnecessary Paraphrase · Semi-Neologisms Again · Capitalization in
Translation and Elsewhere · Paul Kussmaul · The Sixth Madrid Translation
Conference · Dictionary Words · Meaning · A Scale of Semantic Precision:
From Monosemy to 'Polysemy'
XXII:
March 1996
Poetry and Fischer-Dieskau · Fidelity in Information Texts · Translation
Examination Papers · Case Grammar Again · Oblique or Hermeneutic
Translation · The Familiarization Effect · Translation as Literary Criticism ·
Translation the Great Impersonation · Two Divisions in Translation · Rendering
the Hype · Another Note on Revision · Lost in Translation · Gideon Toury ·
Kafka's Amerika Again · Principles and Methods of Translation · The Fifth
FrenchEnglish Dictionary · The NAJIT · Dynamic Equivalence and Beyond ·
The Translation of Metonyms · Close Translation · Lincoln Cathedral ·
Repetition in French
XXIII:
May 1996 167
The Translation of Philosophy · Fidelity or Servility · Translating Universal
Idioms · Elitism and Populism · Hervey, Higgins and

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