Translation Studies — Problems and Methods

Author: (German) Wills
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Publishing Time: 2001-04-01
Features: This book is a representative work of Western translation theory. Professor Wolfert Wills is an important figure in the field of German translation theory. "Translation Studies: Problems and Methods" is the crystallization of his many years of translation teaching and research. The book was originally written in German and published in 1977; later, the author revised and supplemented it, and it was co-translated into English with others. It was published by Gunter Narr in West Germany in 1982. The book, including the introduction, consists of 12 chapters: Translation as a tool for modern communication, the history and current state of translation theory, methodological issues in translation studies, the translation process and procedures, text linguistics and translation, the problem of equivalence in translation, difficulties in translation, translation teaching, analysis of English-German translation errors, translation criticism, and machine translation, etc.