Handbook of translation studies / edited by Yves Gambier, Luc van Doorslaer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Handbook of Translation Studies -- Editorial page -- LCC data -- Introduction -- Adaptation -- Further reading -- Applied Translation Studies -- 1. background -- 2. Issues in ats -- 2.1. Prescription and users -- 2.2. Usefulness and usability -- 3. ats procedure(s) -- 4. Conceptualization -- Audiovisual translation -- 1. What translation modes does audiovisual translation encompass -- 2. Unity in variation: An attempt at structuring the field and its research topic -- 3. Audiovisual translation and Translation Studies -- 4. Research trends.

Censorship -- 1. Concepts -- 2. Prospects -- Children's literature and translation -- 1. Cultural context adaptation -- 2. Ideological manipulation (purification) -- 3. The dual readership -- 4. Features of orality -- 5. Text and image -- 6. Final words -- Further reading -- Cognitive approaches -- 1. First theoretical and empirical steps -- 2. A plethora of theoretical models of the translation process -- 2.1. A linguistic and psycholinguistic model -- 2.2. A relevance-theoretical model -- 2.3. A social and psycholinguistic model -- 2.4. The effort model.

2.5. Translation as a decision-making type of behavior -- 3. Development and consolidation of research in cognitive aspects of translation -- 3.1. Topics -- 3.2. Instruments -- 3.3. Latest developments -- 4. Findings of cognitive approaches to translation -- Comics in translation -- 1. The development of research in the field of comic translation -- 2. Problems of comic translation -- Further reading -- Commercial translation -- Committed approaches and activism -- 1. Action and change -- 2. Action and narrative -- Community interpreting -- 1. Training -- 2. Role.

3. Professionalization -- 4. Research -- Further reading -- Competence -- 1. On the notion of competence -- 2. Translation competence -- 2.1. Definitions and components -- Computer-aided translation -- 1. Cat tools -- 1.1. Translation memory tools -- 1.2. Terminology tools -- 1.3. Other TEnT components -- 2. Impact on translation -- 3. Emerging possibilities -- Further reading -- Conference interpreting -- 1. Settings, history and status -- 2. Professional norms, standards and conventions -- 3. Modes and skills -- 4. Training and qualifications.

5. Conference interpreting as a service: quality criteria and the user's perspective -- 6. Recent developments and outlook -- 7. Research on conference interpreting -- Consecutive interpreting -- 1. History and professional practice -- 2. Teaching and training -- 3. Literature and empirical research -- Further reading -- Corpora -- 1. What is a corpus -- 1.1. Sample or Monitor -- 1.2. Synchronic or Diachronic -- 1.3. General (or Reference) or Specialized -- 1.4. Monolingual, Bilingual or Multilingual -- 1.5. Written, Spoken, Mixed (Written and Spoken) or Multi-modal -- 1.6. Annotated or Non-annotated.

2. Corpus processing tools.

As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. The HTS aims at disseminating knowledge about translation and interpreting to a relatively broad audience: not only students who often adamantly prefer user-friendliness, researchers and lecturers in Translation Studies, Translation & Interpreting professionals; but also scholars, experts and professionals from other disciplines (among which linguistics, sociology, history, psychology). Moreover, the HTS is the first handbook with this scope in Translation St.

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