The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzoni’s I Promesse Sposi

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Discourse and nonverbal communication
7. Aspects, problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation 17
8. Discourse features in non-verbal communication 49
9. Part 2. Cultures in translation
10. The identification of gestural images in Chinese literary expressions 69
11. Some aspects of Japanese cultural ethos embedded in nonverbal communicative behaviour 83
12. Part 3. Narrative literature
13. Alice abroad 107
14. The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzoni’s I Promesse Sposi 131
15. Punctuation in Hans Christian Andersen’s stories and in their translations into English 151
16. Matching verbal and nonverbal communication in a holocaust memoir and its translation 163
17. Part 4. Theater
18. “Is this a dagger which I see before me?” 187
19. Verbal and non-verbal constituents in theatrical texts and implications for translators 203
20. Part 5. Poetry
21. “Whose morsel of lips will you bite?” 217
22. Part 6. Interpretation
23. the reality of multichannel verbal-nonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation 249
24. Kinesics and the simultaneous interpreter 283
25. From babel to Brussels 295
26. Part 7. the audiovisual channels for translation- film and television dubbing
27. Translating non-verbal information in dubbing 315
28. Dubbing and the nonverbal dimension of translation 327
29. List of contributors 343
30. Name index 349
31. Subject index 357