Thinking Spanish translation : a course in translation method, spanish to english

Abstract

Introduction -- 1. Preliminaries to translation as a process -- 2. Preliminaries to translation as a product -- 3. Cultural issues in translation; compromise and compensation -- 4. The formal properties of texts: phonic-graphic and prosodic problems in translating -- 5. The formal properties of texts: grammatical and lexical issues in translation -- 6. The formal properties of texts: sentential, inter-sentential and intertextual issues in translating -- 7. Literal meaning and translation problems -- 8. Connotative meaning and translation problems -- 9. Language variety in texts: dialect, sociolect, code-switching -- 10. Language variety in texts: social register and tonal register -- 11. Textual genre as a factor in translation: oral and written genres -- 12. Genre marking and the crossover between oral and written genres -- 13. Technical translation -- 14. Translation of consumer-oriented texts -- 15. Stylistic editing -- 16. Contrastive topic and practical: subjuntive expressing purpose-aim versus indicative expressing result-effetc -- 17. Contrastive topic and practical: orders and requests -- 18. Contrastive topic and practical: pronominalization -- 19. Contrastive topic and practical: passive and impersonal constructions -- 20. Summary and conclusion