Translating Sensitive Texts

Abstract

List of Karl SIMMS: Introduction. PART I: ALTERITY: RACE, ETHNICITY, CULTURE. Basil HATIM: Intertextual intrusions: towards a framework for harnessing the power of the absent text in translation. Lance HEWSON: Change in translation and the image of the translator. Marion EDWARDS: And yet ... it's strange how such a small word can make such a big difference! Philip SUTTON: A translator's dilemma. Alet KRUGER: The translator as agent of reconciliation: translating an eye-witness report in a historical text. B. SAUNDERS and J. van BRAKEL: The phantom objectivity of colour: with reference to the works of Franz Boas on the Kwakiutl. Mary BRENNAN: Seeing the difference: translation across modalities. PART II: INSTITUTIONS: POLITICS, STATE, LAW. Mona BAKER: Non-cognitive constraints and interpreter strategies in political interviews. Christina SCHAEFFNER: Political texts as sensitive texts. Juan J. ZARO: A war seen from afar: translation discontinuities in ... and Spain Sings (1937). A.P. BERBER SARDINHA: Patterns of lexis in original and translated business reports: Textual differences and similarities. A. GEOFFROY-SKUCE: Polysemous adjectives in legal translation. Geoffrey VITALE: Legal and politico-legal translation in Quebec. Catherine WAY: The translation of Spanish academic transcripts: implications for recognition. PART III: SACRED TEXTS. Eugene A. NIDA: Translating a text with a long and sensitive tradition. Paul ELLINGWORTH: Text and translation: model and reality. John MYHILL: Problems of lexical semantics in the Old Testament: ra' and yr'. R.A. MEGRAB: Standards of textuality and the translation of Hadith. Adrian CHAN: The sinless Chinese: a Christian translation dilemma. PART IV: PROFANE TEXTS. Peter FAWCETT: Macerated Malraux: A study of La Voie Royale in translation. Francisco SANCHEZ-BENEDITO: Pragmatic presuppositions in translation: Henry Miller's Tropics, a case in point.... Michael HOLMAN: The sanification of Tolstoy's Resurrection. Carmen MILLAN-VARELA: Linguistic evidences of a conflict in the Galician Ulysses. Bibliography. Name index. Subject index.