Translation and Translation Process: Theory and Practice

Author: (English) Bell (Bell/R.T.) / Wang Kefei Preface
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Publish Date: 2003-09-06
Features: Since it was first established in the 1970s, the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology, and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and language use. A feeling of unease currently exists about the treatment of translation by translation theorists on the one hand and linguists on the other. Translation theorists have made little systematic use of the techniques and insights of contemporary linguistics, and linguists have been at best neutral to the theory of translation. This volume argues that the subjective evaluation of the product of translating must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process. Without this shift, translation theory will continue to fall outside the mainstream of intellectual activity in the human sciences and fail to take its rightful place as a major field in applied linguistics. Roger Bell is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Head of the School of Languages at the Polytechnic of Central London.