Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures

Juliane House is Emeritus Professor, Hamburg University, Distinguished Professor at Hellenic American University, Athens and President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies. Her key titles include Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited (1997), Translation (2009), Translational Action and Intercultural Communication (2009), Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach (2014) and Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present (Routledge, 2014).

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Central ConceptsChapter 1: The Nature of Translation as Part of Applied LinguisticsChapter 2: Overview of Different Approaches to TranslationChapter 3: Some New Trends in Translation StudiesChapter 4: Culture and TranslationPart II: Translatability, Universals, Text, Context and Translation EvaluationChapter 5: From Untranslatability to TranslatabilityChapter 6: Universals of Translation?Chapter 7: Text and Context: A functional-pragmatic viewChapter 8: Translation Quality Assessment: Review of Approaches and PracticesPart III: Some New Research Avenues in Translation StudiesChapter 9: Translation and Bilingual CognitionChapter 10: The Role of Corpora in Translation StudiesChapter 11: Globalization and TranslationPart IV: Translation Practice in Different Societal DomainsChapter 12: Translation and Foreign Language Learning and TeachingChapter 13: The Professional Practice of Translators: New Challenges and ProblemsBibliography

‘Juliane House’s book is an incisive re-evaluation of the position of Translation Studies and its relation to Applied Linguistics. It brings together a wealth of critical material to provide a wide-ranging, up-to-date assessment of the complex phenomenon of translation in its broader linguistic, cognitive and social contexts.’ Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds, UK'This is an important book for researchers and practitioners in applied linguistics – a passionate plea to consider translation as recontextualization and cross-cultural communication. Thoroughly researched with plenty of examples, this book also makes a forceful argument for rehabilitating translation in foreign language learning and teaching.’ Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley, USA