Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor’s note: the interdependence of theory and practice 1
4. Section 1. What happens when one translates
5. Seeking synapses 5
6. Translation and the space between 13
7. Some images and analogies for the process of translation 27
8. Section 2. Some theoretical aspects of translation
9. The unit of translation revisited 38
10. The soviet concept of time and space 49
11. Ever since Yan Fu and his criteria of translation 63
12. Categorization and translation 71
13. Section 3. Translating Non-prose genres
14. The translation of poetry 87
15. Opera Translation 100
16. Translation and social discourse 120
17. Cultural transfers in the Translating of humor 139
18. Section 4. Putting thoery to practice
19. Translation in theory and practice 157
20. Sematic and communicative translation 172
21. A communicative-oriented analysis of quality in nonliterary translation and interpretation 188
22. Checking translation for meaning 201
23. Section 5. Language specific issues in translation
24. Translation of prose fiction from english to hebrew 206
25. The translator as editor 224
26. Section 6. Translation in the university setting
27. Case studies in teaching translation 235
28. Human rights applied to translation 254
29. Contributors 260
30. ATA Corporate Members 263
31. ATA institutional members 267
32. ATA officers and board of directors, 1991 269