Translation in Context: Selected Contributions from the EST Congress, Granada, 1998

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by  Andrew Chesterman, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Yves Gambier

TRANSLATION IN CONTEXT
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Gideon Toury (Tel Aviv University)
ADVISORY BOARD
Marilyn Gaddis Rose (Binghamton University)
Yves Gambier (Turku University)
Daniel Gile (Université Lumière Lyon 2 and ISIT, Paris)
Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart)
Eva Hung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
W. John Hutchins (University of East Anglia)
Zuzana Jettmarová (Charles University of Prague)
Werner Koller (Bergen University)
Alet Kruger (UNISA)
José Lambert (Catholic University of Leuven)
Franz Pöchhacker (University of Vienna)
Rosa Rabadán (University of León)
Roda Roberts (University of Ottawa)
Juan C. Sager (UMIST, Manchester)
Miriam Shlesinger (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
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Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit (University of Joensuu)
Lawrence Venuti (Temple University)
Wolfram Wilss (University of Saarbrücken)
Judith Woodsworth (Mt. Saint Vincent University, Halifax)
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Volume 39
Andrew Chesterman, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador and Yves Gambier (eds.)
Translation in Context
Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Granada 1998
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TRANSLATION
IN CONTEXT
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
THE EST CONGRESS, GRANADA 1998
Edited by
ANDREW CHESTERMAN
University of Helsinki
NATIVIDAD GALLARDO SAN SALVADOR
University of Granada
YVES GAMBIER
University of Turku
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EST Congress (2nd : Granada, Spain : 1998).
Translation in context : selected contribution from the EST Congress, Granada, 1998 /
edited by Andrew Chesterman, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Yves Gambier.
p. cm. -- (Benjamins translation library, ISSN 0929-7316 ; v. 39)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Translating and interpreting--Congress. I. Chesterman, Andrew. II. Gallardo San
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Contents
Introduction ix
Part I: Conceptual analysis
Sandra Halverson
Prototype effects in the "translation" category 3
Cay Dollerup
"Relay" and "support" translations 17
Lourdes Pérez González
El concepto de numero difuso aplicado al perfil del traductor 27
Part II: Situational, sociological and political factors
Brian Mossop
The workplace procedures of professional translators 39
Hanna Risku & Roland Freihoff
Kooperative Textgestaltung im translatorischen Handlungsrahmen 49
Nike Kocijancic Pokorn
Translation into a non-mother tongue in translation theory 61
Anna Aguilar-Amat & Laura Santamaria
Terminology policies, diversity, and minoritised languages 73
Part III: Psychological/cognitive aspects
Candace Séguinot
Knowledge, expertise, and theory in translation 87
Astrid Jensen & Arnt Lykke Jakobsen
Translating under time pressure 105
Paul Kussmaul
Types of creative translating 117
M T. Bajo, F. Padilla & P. Padilla
Comprehension processes in simultaneous interpreting 127
Nedret Kuran-Burço lu
At the crossroads of translation studies andimagology 143
Part IV: Translation effects
Ritva Leppihalme
Foreignizing strategies in drama translation 153
Alexandra Lianeri
Translation and the shaping of modern democracy 163
Tiina Puurtinen
Translating linguistic markers of ideology 177
Kristiina Taivalkoski
Les simplifications narratives dans une traduction française
de Joseph Andrews 187
Part V: Computer aids in the translation process
Jeremy Munday
Seeking translation equivalents: a corpus-based approach 201
Anja Schwärzt
Machine translation for translators? 211
Martin Kaltenbacher
Aspects of universal grammar in human versus machine translation 221
Part VI: Studies of a text type
Eliana Franco
Documentary film translation: a specific practice? 233
K. Malmkjær, J. Milton & V. Smith
Translation and mass culture 243
Masa Nomura
Text, image and translation 261
Christina Valdés
Reception factors in translated advertisements 271
Susan Sar evi
Creativity in legal translation: how much is too much? 281
Rainer Kohlmayer
Frank Wedekind's sex tragedy Lulu in English and French versions 293
Part VII: Culture-bound concepts
Leticia Herrero
Sobre la traducibilidad de los marcadores culturales 307
Åse Johnsen
El mundo de [la filo]sofïa 317
Anne Martin
Institutional references from the English-speaking world
in the Spanish press 327
Stefania Taviano
British acculturation of Italian theatre 339
Part VIII: Translation history
Paul Bandia
Towards a history of translation in a (post)-colonial context: an African
perspective 353
Emine Bogenç Demirel & Hülya Yilmaz
La critique de la traduction littéraire en Turquie (1940-1992) 363
Outi Paloposki & Riitta Oittinen
The domesticated foreign 373
Index 391

Introduction
The Granada context
There is currently a strong social demand for Translation Studies in
Spain, largely due to Spain's integration into the European Union. As part of
this growing interest, the University of Granada has become an important
Spanish forum for research and training in translation and interpreting. In
September 1998 it hosted the Second International Congress of the European
Society for Translation Studies. This is a selection of the contributions which
represent papers, interactive sessions and a plenary lecture (by C. Séguinot) of
the EST Granada Congress. Over three hundred people took part, coming from
more than twenty countries. Both the private and public sectors were well
represented, including scholars, professional translators and interpreters, and
postgraduate students. The Congress aimed at providing an international forum
for scholars, teachers and practitioners involved in all aspects of Translation
Studies.
The Translation Studies context
Translation Studies itself has been through many transformations since James
Holmes first approached the issue of naming the discipline and drew up a map
of Translation Studies which still seems surprisingly modern thirty years later.
Over the past two decades, the context of Translation Studies has been shifting
and expanding at an increasing rate.
Texts are now more specialised than in the past and translation is
inconceivable without documentation techniques, both factual and
terminological. Translation practices have undergone a radical change with the
incorporation of computer-based tools. Translation is no longer an isolated
activity; it has come into contact with, and often overlaps, other activities such
as documentation, publishing, technical and professional writing, and editing.
Analysis of the translation process has integrated new psycholinguistic and
cognitive aspects. Cultural, sociological, political, and situational factors have
been introduced that place translation within a broad social context. Translator