Translation : linguistic and philosophical perspectives / Martin Kay
- Author:
- Kay, Martin
- Published:
- Stanford, California : Center for the Study of Language and Information, [2017]
- Physical Description:
- vi, 219 pages ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Pedagogical and Word-for-Word Translation -- 1.2.Adaptation -- 1.3.Globalization and Localization -- 1.4.Translation and Interpretation -- 1.5.Translation in the World -- 1.6.Translation as an Art or a Craft -- 1.7.This Book -- 2.A Model of Translation -- 2.1.The Order of Events -- 2.2.Grain Size -- 2.3.The Word Level -- 2.4.Syntactic and Pragmatic Translation -- 2.5.Context -- 2.6.Pragmatic Translation and Context -- 3.Reference -- 3.1.Language as a Digital System -- 3.2.Meaning and Philosophy -- 3.3.Things and the Cognitive Perspective -- 3.4.Given and New -- 4.Sense -- 4.1.Prototypes -- 4.2.Scripts and Lexical Functions -- 4.3.Classifiers -- 4.4.Doing Things with Words -- 4.5.Word-for-Word Translation -- 4.6.Situation and Context -- 5.Linguistics -- 5.1.Inflectional Morphology -- 5.1.1.Gender -- 5.1.2.Tense -- 5.1.3.Mood -- 5.1.4.Evidentials -- 5.1.5.Case -- 5.1.6.Number -- 5.1.7.Apostrophe -s -- 5.1.8.Paradigms -- 5.2.The Tyranny of Grammar -- 5.3.Derivation -- 5.3.1.Compounds -- 6.Syntax -- 6.1.Prescriptive Grammar -- 6.2.Productivity -- 6.3.Signs -- 7.Machine Translation -- 7.1.History -- 7.2.Rule-based Machine Translation -- 7.3.Statistical Machine Translation -- 7.4.Coda.
- Summary:
- "Martin Kay's Translation is concerned with the fundamental underpinnings of the titular subject. Kay argues that the primary responsibility of the translator is to the referents of words themselves. He shows how a pair of sentences that might have widely different meanings in isolation could have similar meanings in some contexts. Exploring such key subjects as how to recognize when a pair of texts might be translations of each other, Kay attempts to answer the essential question: What is translation anyway?"--
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781575868714 paperback acid-free paper
1575868717 paperback acid-free paper
9781575868455 hardcover acid-free paper
1575868458 hardcover acid-free paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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