by Bruno Osimo

Table of contents

PART ONE - INTRODUCTION

1. The International Standard ISO 2384: "Presentation of Translations" - Part One

2. The International Standard ISO 2384: "Presentation of Translations" - Part Two

3. Learning a foreign language versus Learning translation

4. Affectivity and Learning

5. Foreign Languages and Linguistic Awareness

6. Reading - Part One

7. Reading - part two

8. Writing as a mental process

9. Translation as a mental process

10.Verbal communication - part 1

11.Verbal communication - part 2

12.Verbal communication - part 3

13.Jakobsón and translation - first part

14.Jakobsón and translation - second part

15.Jakobsón and translation - third part

16.Translation studies - part one

17.Translation studies - part two

18.Translation studies - part three

19.The translation process - part one

20.The translation process - part two

21.The translation process - part three

22.The translation process - part four

23.The translation process - part five

24.Language, culture, translation

25.Translatability - part one

26.Translatability - part two

27.Translatability - part three

28.Lotman and translatability - part one

29.Lotman and translatability - part two

30.Peirce and translatability

31.Torop and translatability - part one

32.Torop and translatability - part two

33.Torop and translatability - part three

34.Loss, Redundancy, Translatability

35. Translation as cultural mediation

36. Intersemiotic translation - part one

37. Intersemiotic translation - part two

38. Translation and theory of models

39. Translators in society

40. Perception, production, tools, reception

Appendix - Exercises

PART TWO - PERCEPTION

1. Perception, reading, analysis, interpretation

2. Scanning and collection of information from the environment

3. Collection of information

4. Reading and concept formation

5. Reading and concept evolution

6. The meaning of meaning

7. Meaning and psyche

8. The context theory of interpretation

9. The world created by words

10. Reading and ambiguity resolution

11. Interpretation of psychoanalysis and psychoanalysis of interpretation

12. Dream reading

13. Deduction and induction

14. Semiosis

15. Reading and game theory

16. Wittgenstein and meaning

17. Wittgenstein and meaning - second part

18. Peirce and the translation of meaning

19. The role of the reader

20. Peirce, Eco, and unlimited semiosis

21. Understanding the text

22. Steiner and understanding as translation

23. The reference slavery

24. Free interpretation

25. Meaning and sense

26. The analysis of the text to be translated - first part

27. The analysis of the text to be translated - second part

28. The analysis of the text to be translated - third part

29. The analysis of the text to be translated - fourth part

30. The analysis of the text to be translated - fifth part

31. The motives behind the prototext

32. Content analysis

33. Lexicon, syntax, punctuation

34. Equivalence or metaphor?

35. The analysis of the literary prototext

36. Intuition, experience, generalization - part one

37. Intuition, experience, generalization - part two

38. Assimilation, manipulation, inference

39. Prototext analysis and computer

40. Prototext analysis and computer

PART THREE - PRODUCTION (1)

1. Text re-creation

2. Ideology of consciousness and consciousness of ideology

3. Transformation patterns

4. Text generation - first part

5. Text generation - second part

6. Text generation - third part

7. Translation units

8. From private language to communication

9. From private communication to public communication

10. Adaptation - first part

11. Adaptation - second part

12. Adaptation - third part

13. Adaptation - fourth part

14. Fidelity - first part

15. Fidelity - second part

16. Literality - first part

17. Literality - second part

18. Equivalence - first part

19. Equivalence - second part

20. Equivalence - third part

21. Equivalence - part four

22. Equivalence seen from the author's point of view - first part

23. Equivalence seen from the author's point of view - second part

24. Equivalence in the Soviet School: Komissarov

25. The oxymoron of the different equivalents

26. Close equivalences of the fourth kind

27. Free translation - part one

28. Free translation - part two

29. Shifts in translation and in translation criticism

30. The down-top approach to transformation relationships

31. The top-down approach to shift relationships

32. Shift relationships

33. What does "realia" mean?

34. Geographic and ethnographic realia

35. Political and social realia

36. Realia: transcription, transliteration and calques

37. Realia substitution, approximation, contextualization

38. How realia can be translated

39. How to translate realia

40. Proper names translation

PART FOUR - PRODUCTION (2)

1. The re-expression of the original

2. Comparing the expressive potential

3. Direct and indirect influences of the protolanguage

4. Recreation and stereotype

5. Games theory

6. Chain of choices

7. Loss: temporal factors

8. Translation loss: time factors in the comparison of metatexts

9. Translation loss: cultural factors

10. Compensation and explicitation

11. Metatextual rendering

12. Wordplay

13. Translator’s notes

14. Imitation

15. Phraseologisms

16. Types of text

17. Dubbing

18. Dubbing - second part

19. Subtitling

20. Subtitling - second part

21. Translating for theater

22. Terminology

23. Specific-area translation

24. Translation for publishers

25. Literary translation quality

26. Translation of poetry

27. Journalistic translation

28. Essay translation

29. Ideology and translation

30. Words and emotions

31. Revision and self-criticism

32. Intertextual references

33. Implicit and explicit intertextuality

34. Quotations and intertextuality

35. Citations and quotations in translation

36. Bibliographic references - part one

37. Bibliographic references - part two

38. How footnotes and endnotes are made

39. Pride and profession

40. Profession, learning, memory

PART FIVE - TOOLS - RECEPTION

tools

1. Computer use for translators

2. Accessories and ergonomics

3. Sources of reference

4. The dictionary

5. From dictionary to corpora

6. Use of corpora

7. The use of corpora - part two

8. Use of corpora - part three

9. The wordtheque

10. Wordtheque and other resources

11. Other corpora

12. Other corpora

13. Online dictionaries

14. The Logos Dictionary

15. Other online dictionaries

16. Online slang dictionaries

17. Sites and metasites

18. Online specialized dictionaries

19. Search engines - part one

20. Search engines - part two

21. Plant names translation

22. Other features of Google - part one

23. Other features of Google - part two

24. Technological innovation, quality, resistance

25. Translation memories

26. Wordfast - installation

27. Wordfast

28. Segmentation and quality

29. Wordfast functions - first part

30. Wordfast functions - second part

31. The Setup menu - first part

32. The Setup menu - second part

33. Wordfast glossaries

34. Last notes on Wordfast

Translation criticism

35. Translation criticism: Toury, Mounin

36. Translation criticism: Even Zohar, Nord

37. Toury and translation criticism

38. Levý, Holmes, Popovič

39. Delabastita, Torop

40. A new model