Teaching Translation from Spanish to English: Worlds Beyond Words

by Allison Beeby Lonsdale and University of Ottawa Press

Book Overview

While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view.

In her innovative book, Beeby Lonsdale demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077660399X
• ISBN13: 9780776603995
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 10.0"