Chapter 11. The Decline of the Native Speaker

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors: A Short Profile viii
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Part 1.
7. Chapter 2. Round-table Discussion on Translation in the New Millennium 13
8. Part 2.
9. Chapter 3. No Global Communication Without Translation 55
10. Chapter 4. Some of Peter Newmark’s Translation Categories Revisited 68
11. Chapter 5. Looking Forward to the Translation: On ‘A Dynamic Reflection of Human Activities 76
12. Chapter 6. With Translation in Mind 86
13. Chapter 7. Tracing Back (in Awe) a Hundredyear History of Spanish Translations: Washington Irving’s The Alhambra 92
14. Chapter 8. The Troubled Identity of Literary Translation 112
15. Chapter 9. Interlinear Translation and Discourse à la Mark Twain 125
16. Chapter 10. Meaning, Truth and Morality in Translation 140
17. Chapter 11. The Decline of the Native Speaker 152
18. Chapter 12. English as Lingua Franca and its Influence on Discourse Norms in Other Languages 168
19. Chapter 13. Interpreting and Translation in the UK Public Services: The Pursuit of Excellence versus, and via, Expediency 180
20. Chapter 14. Audiovisual Translation in the Third Millennium 192
21. Chapter 15. Translation and Interpreting Assessment in the Context of Educational Measurement 205
22. Chapter 16. A Comment on Translation Ethics and Education 225
23. Index 228