Nonverbal Communication and Translation

• 1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction (by Poyatos, Fernando); 4. Part 1. Discourse and nonverbal communication; 5. Aspects, problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation (by Poyatos, Fernando); 6. Discourse features in non-verbal communication: Implications for the translator (by Hatim, Basil); 7. Part 2. Cultures in translation; 8. The identification of gestural images in Chinese literary expressions (by Shun-chiu, Yau); 9. Some aspects of Japanese cultural ethos embedded in nonverbal communicative behaviour (by Hasada, Rie); 10. Part 3. Narrative literature; 11. Alice abroad: dealing with descriptions and transcriptions of paralanguage in literary translation (by Nord, Christiane); 12. The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzoni's I Promesse Sposi (by Diadori, Pierangela); 13. Punctuation in Hans Christian Andersen's stories and in their translations into English (by Malmkjaer, Kirsten); 14. Matching verbal and nonverbal communication in a holocaust memoir and its translation (by Tobin, Yishai); 15. Part 4. Theater; 16. "Is this a dagger which I see before me?": The non-verbal language of drama (by Snell-Hornby, Mary); 17. Verbal and non-verbal constituents in theatrical texts and implications for translators (by Shiyab, Said); 18. Part 5. Poetry; 19. "Whose morsel of lips will you bite?": Some reflections on the role of prosody and genre as non-verbal elements in the translation of poetry (by Golden, Sean); 20. Part 6. Interpretation; 21. the reality of multichannel verbal-nonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation (by Poyatos, Fernando); 22. Kinesics and the simultaneous interpreter: the advantages of listening with one's eyes and speaking with one's body (by Viaggio, Sergio); 23. From babel to Brussels: Conference interpreting and the art of the impossible (by Weale, Edna); 24. Part 7. the audiovisual channels for translation- film and television dubbing; 25. Translating non-verbal information in dubbing (by Chaume, Frederic); 26. Dubbing and the nonverbal dimension of translation (by Zabalbeascoa, Patrick); 27. List of contributors; 28. Name index; 29. Subject index

All in all, Nonverbal Communication and Translation is a much needed addition to the current discussion on translation, especially in areas such as poetry, interpretation, drama and audiovisual translation.