Description
Book SynopsisPeter Newmark's fourth book on translation, a collection of his articles in The Linguist, is addressed to a wide readership. He discusses the force of translation in public life, instancing health and social services, art galleries, operas, light magazines and even gives some hints on the translation of erotica. The major part of these paragraphs is concerned with straight translation topics such as economics texts and short stories, as well as procedures for translating quotations, symbols, phrasal verbs and nouns, synonymous sound effects in language, repetition and keywords. The subordination of translation not just to source or target language but to logic, the facts, ideas of right and wrong, as well as the translator's ideology, is also discussed. However controversial, the author always provides an abundance of examples for the reader to test his ideas.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I: May 1989
II: July 1989
III: September 1989
IV: November 1989
V: January 1990
VI: March 1990
VII: May 1990
VIII: July 1990
IX: September 1990
X: November 1990
XI: January 1991
XII: March 1991
XIII: May 1991
XIV: August 1991
XV: October 1991
XVI: December 1991
XVII: February 1992
XVIII: April 1992
XIX: June 1992
XX: August 1992
Some Afterthoughts
