Translation & Translating
Theory & Practice

By Roger Bell
Oct 1991
Pearson Education / Longman
ISBN: 0582016487
320 pages
$59.50 Hardcover

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Argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process (ie translating). Without such a shift, translation theory will continue outside the mainstream of intellectual activity in human sciences and fail to take its rightful place as a major field in applied Linguistics.

Contents

Acknowledgements
General Editor's Preface
Introduction

PART 1: MODEL
1 Perspectives on translation
2 Translating; modeling the process

PART 2: MEANING
3 Word- and sentence-meaning
4 Logic, grammar and rhetoric
5 Text and discourse

PART 3: MEMORY
6 Text processing
7 Information, knowledge and memory
8 Envoi

Appendix
Bibliography
Index.

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