What is it about?
A textbook for novice translators that approaches the professional practice of translation not through transfer rules but through affective and cognitive strategies for getting into a frame of mind that will enhance speed, accuracy, and enjoyment.
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Why is it important?
This is the first edition of what has been ever since the premier textbook for translation students worldwide.
Perspectives
I originally planned this book as a textbook version of The Translator's Turn; fortunately, as I worked on it, it changed shape pretty dramatically, especially in response to my reading of Dinda L. Gorlee's 1994 book on Peirce and translation, which I was reviewing: when I found her discussion of the instinct-experience-habit triad (which I later found she had gotten wrong), the whole book shifted into that shape.
Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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This page is a summary of: Becoming A Translator, September 2003, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9780203441138.
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