Publisher's Synopsis
The theory of translation is now recognized as a key area for all those investigating language and culture, but the study of translation has reached a crisis point. It needs to consolidate the rapid advances that have been made in the field and critically evaluate the variety of conflicting approaches.;The authors of this book aim to meet these demands, proposing a comprehensive approach which is satisfying from a theoretical point of view and applicable in the everyday practice of translation. The "variational" approach is a two-tier model which first isolates a wide set of paraphrastic possibilities and then goes through a series of selection procedures to produce a final text. Translation emerges as an essentially creative activity, a concept which takes the reader far beyond the limitations of traditional approaches.;This book should be of interest to advanced students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics and modern languages, and professional translators.
