An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting

596 Pages·2018·5.105 MB·English

by  Sin Wai Chan (author)

An Encyclopedia of
Practical Translation and Interpreting

An Encyclopedia of
Practical Translation and Interpreting
Edited by
Chan Sin-wai
The Chinese University Press
An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting
Edited by Chan Sin-wai
© The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2018
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ISBN: 978-962-996-839-7 (hardcover)
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Contents
ix INTRODUCTION
Chan Sin-wai
Practical Translation
3 CHAPTER 1
Technology and Audiovisual Translation
Rocío Baños
31 CHAPTER 2
Editing in Translation: Revision
Brian Mossop
61 CHAPTER 3
English-Chinese Translation of Practical Writings
Li Kexing
101 CHAPTER 4
Language, Law, Translation, and Society:
The Sociolinguistics of Translating Hong Kong Laws
Sin King-kui
135 CHAPTER 5
Legal Translation: Cultural Aspects
Wang Ling
169 CHAPTER 6
Public Administration Translation
Peter Chung Lung-shan
201 CHAPTER 7
Translating Chinese Famous Quotes into English
Chan Sin-wai
271 CHAPTER 8
Tourism Translation
Liao Min-Hsiu
297 CHAPTER 9
Translation of Music
Lucile Desblache
325 CHAPTER 10
Translation of Religious Writings
Rim Hassen and Adriana Șerban
351 CHAPTER 11
Translation of Songs
Eos Cheng Hui-tung
391 CHAPTER 12
Translation Technology and Its Practical Applications
Qian Duoxiu
Interpreting
417 CHAPTER 13
Interpreting between Mandarin and English
Wu Zhiwei
443 CHAPTER 14
Conference Interpreting
Valerie Taylor-Bouladon
471 CHAPTER 15
Court Interpreting
Holly Mikkelson
497 CHAPTER 16
Legal Interpreting in Hong Kong—Word Fencing and Defensing:
Interpreting at Arbitration Hearings
Daisy Ng Sheung-yuen
515 CHAPTER 17
Liaison Interpreting
Mariachiara Russo
531 CHAPTER 18
Simultaneous Interpreting
Daniel Gile
563  List of Contributors
571  Index

Introduction
Chan Sin-wai
School of Humanities and Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
This volume, An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and
Interpreting, is a sequel to An Encyclopedia of Translation:
Chinese-English．English-Chinese that came out in 1995, after
a lapse of twenty-three years. Twenty-three years ago, Profes-
sor David Pollard, then Professor of Translation and Chair-
man of the Department of Translation, and I worked together
to produce the first encyclopedia in the field that has general
entries on the history, theory, and practice of translation in a
global context, as well as specific entries on issues relating to
translation between Chinese and English. Ninety-nine schol-
ars and specialists from all over the world were invited to
contribute chapters of their specialized areas. Twenty-three
years later, a revised or updated edition of the encyclopedia is
desirable but not possible. Some contributors are no longer
with us; others have shifted their domains of research or
become inactive in research due to retirement; still others are
no longer in touch with us. All these mean that it is academi-
cally more rewarding and practically more manageable to
create a new volume to supplement An Encyclopedia of Trans-
lation, hence the production of this reference work, entitled
An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting.
The need for this encyclopedia cannot be overempha-
sized. It is obvious to all of us that practical translation and