Translating Texts

Clear and accessible, this textbook provides a step by step guide to textual analysis for beginning translators and translation students. Ideal for both language neutral and language-specific classroom settings, this is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate level programs in modern languages and translation.

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at National Research University School of Higher Economics in Moscow, Russia. He is co-editor of Beyond the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Translation Pedagogy, author of Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature, and founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies. Christopher D. Mellinger is Assistant Professor of Spanish Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is co-author of Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies (Routledge) and the managing editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Contributions Editor and Contributor Biographies Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Translating Texts Text Types: Samples with Text Analysis 2 Recipes 3 Instruction Manuals 4 Museum Guides 5 Patient Education Materials 6 News Reports 7 Business Letters Appendix A: Sample Grading Rubric Appendix B: How to Build a Corpus References Index