Translation Solutions for Many Languages: Histories of a flawed dream (Bloomsbury Advances in Translation)

300 Pages·2016·2.211 MB·

by  Anthony Pym

Translation Solutions for
Many Languages
Bloomsbury Advances in Translation Series
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Translation Solutions for
Many Languages
Histories of a Flawed Dream
Anthony Pym
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Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Tables ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xvi
Notes on Transcriptions, Back-Translation and Capitalization xviii
1 Charles Bally and the Missing Equivalents 1
2 Vinay and Darbelnet Hit the Road 15
3 A Tradition in Russian and Environs 37
4 A Loh Road to China 73
5 Spontaneous Combustion in Central Europe? 101
6 Cold War Dalliance with Transformational Grammar 121
7 Forays into Romance 137
8 Meanwhile Back in German 151
9 Disciplinary Corrections 163
10 Going Japanese 185
11 The Proof of the Pudding is in the Classroom 205
12 A Typology of Translation Solutions for Many Languages 219
Postscript: The Flaw in the Dream 243
Notes 247
References 263
Index 279
List of Figures
9.1. ‘Degrees of cultural transposition’ (from Hervey and Higgins 1992: 33)
168
9.2. Translation strategy flow chart for ‘culturally marked segments’ (realia),
from Mayoral Asensio and Muñoz Martín (1997: 166; Muñoz Martín 1998)
181
12.1. Tentative positioning of main solution types in terms of accessible infor-
mation on start culture (horizontal axis) and perceived location of item with
respect to start culture (vertical axis) 235
List of Tables
2.1. Vinay and Darbelnet’s general table of translation solutions 24
3.1. Possible development of solution types in Russian translation theory 48
3.2. Torop’s model of translation solutions 69
4.1. Possible alignment of categories from Vinay and Darbelnet (1958)
and Loh (1958) 83
4.2. Possible correlations between Russian typologies and Loh (1958) 83
8.1. Schreiber’s model of translation procedures 159
9.1. Translation solutions according to Newmark 165
9.2. Translation solution types in several French and Spanish
translation manuals 171
12.1. A typology of translation solution types for many languages 220