Investigating Translation: Selected papers from the 4th International Congress on Translation, Barcelona, 1998(32 Benjamins Translation Library)

This volume brings together a selection of papers on translation. The papers illustrate translation paradigms to reach a critical revision of existing paradigms and to develop new ones in approaching the translated text. The translation process is also examined focusing on skills, knowledge and strategies that make up translation competence, translation and ideology which examines the "invisible" influence of ideologies on the translator, and the role of translators in transmitting ideology, and translation receivers, envisaging translators as communicators caught between the opposing trends of localization and globalization.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Section I: Investigating Translation Paradigms; 3. A Fresh Look at Translating (by Nida, Eugene A.); 4. Theory and Practice of Translation Studies Revisited: 25 years of Translator Training in Europe (by Neubert, Albrecht); 5. The Scope of a Communicative Theory of Translation: An attempt at systematisation (by Lvovskaya, Zinaida); 6. Living on the Border: Feminine subjectivity in translation (by Godayol Nogue, Pilar); 7. Translation Theory in Chinese Translations of Buddhist Texts (by Chi Yu, Chu); 8. Self-Translation as an extreme Case of the author-Translator-Dialectic (by Tanqueiro, Helena); 9. The Degree of Grammatical Complexity in Literary Texts as a Translation Problem (by Garcia Izquierdo, Isabel); 10. Section II: Investigating the Translation Process; 11. Opportunities in Conference Interpreting Research (by Gile, Daniel); 12. The Computer in Empirical Studies for the Didactics of Translation (by Neunzig, Wilhelm); 13. Acquiring Translation Competence: Hypotheses and Methodological Problems of a Research Project (by PACTE GROUP); 14. Translation Strategies and Translation Solutions: Design of a Teaching Prototype and Empirical Study of its Results (by Scott-Tennent, C.); 15. From Techniques to Types of Solutions (by Zabalbeascoa, Patrick); 16. Translation Strategies: Somewhere over the rainbow (by Munoz Martin, Ricardo); 17. Section III: Investigating Translation and Ideology; 18. Language Models and Catalan Translation (by Mallafre, Joaquim); 19. Dubbing for Catalan Television: The acceptable translation (by Izard, Natalia); 20. La Traduccion del Titulo Cinematografico Como Objeto de Autocensura: El factor religioso (by Gonzalez Ruiz, Victor); 21. The Translation of Mass Fiction (by Milton, John); 22. La traduction des contes de fees: L'enfant entre la tradition et l'avenir (by Peres, A. M. Clark); 23. Section IV: Investigating Translation Receivers; 24. What do We Know About the Target-Text Receiver? (by Nord, Christiane); 25. POSI-tive Thinking About Quality in Translator Training in Finland (by Mackenzie, Rosemary); 26. Towards a More Systematic Approach to the Translation of Advertising Texts (by Adab, Beverly); 27. The Translator as Mediator in Advertising Spanish Products in English-Speaking Markets (by Fuentes Luque, Adrian); 28. Translation as a Component of Software Localization Projects (by Parra, Joan); 29. Traduccion de los nombres vernaculos ingleses de animales en los textos de divulgacion cientifica (by Garrido, Carlos); 30. A Pragmatic Approach to the Description of Phraseology in Biomedical Texts (by Tercedor, Maribel); 31. References; 32. Name Index; 33. Subject Index

Review :
What makes Investigating Translation stand out from other collective volumes is the author's shared concern with providing rigour and objectivity to their research. Irrespective of the specific topic they discuss, the contributors' work on corpora of texts, questionnaires, etc., allows them to present their conclusions in a confident manner and makes their research more readily useful to other scholars in the field. This common feature of the contributions proves that a truly 'scientific' era is drawing near for the discipline, and that this dream and ambition of both theorists and practitioners is likely to come true with the help of the refined tolls of investigation of the 21st century.