Alessandra Riccardi is Associate Professor of German-Italian simultaneous interpretation at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori, University of Trieste, Italy, and co-ordinator of the German Section in the Department of Language, Translataion and Interpretation at the University.
List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements;
Introduction Alessandra Riccardi; 1. Paradoxes and aporias in translation
and translation studies Theo Hermans; 2. The translator in between texts:
on the textual presence of the translator as an issue in the methodology of
comparative translation description Cees Koster; 3. Aspects of a theory of
norms and some issues in teaching translation Rita D. Snel Trampus; 4.
Translation as interpretation Axel Bühler; 5. Translation and
interpretation Alessandra Riccardi; 6. Universality versus culture
specificity in translation Juliane House; 7. Translation and linguistics:
what does the future hold? Kirsten Malmkjær; 8. Text linguistics and
literary translation Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi; 9. Closer and closer apart?
Specialized translation in a cognitive perspective Federica Scarpa; 10.
Knowing translation: cognitive and experiential aspects of translation
expertise from the perspective of expertise studies Gregory M. Shreve; 11.
Towards characterizing translator expertise, knowledge and know-how: some
findings using TAPs and experimental methods Robert J. Jarvella, Astrid
Jensen, Elisabeth Halskov Jensen and Mette Skovgaard Andersen; 12. An
evidence-based approach to applied translation studies Margherita Ulrych;
13. The difference that translation makes: the translator's unconscious
Lawrence Venuti; Index.
