Teaching and Researching TranslationTeaching & Researching Translation provides an authoritative and critical account of the main ideas and concepts, competing issues, and solved and unsolved questions involved in Translation Studies. This book provides an up-to-date, accessible account of the field, focusing on the main challenges encountered by translation practitioners and researchers. Basil Hatim also provides readers and users with the tools they need to carry out their own practice-related research in this burgeoning new field.
This second edition has been fully revised and updated through-out to include:
Armed with this expert guidance, students of translation, researchers and practitioners, or anyone with a general interest in this fast-developing field can explore for themselves a range of exemplary practical applications of research into key issues and questions.
Basil Hatim is Professor of Translation & Linguistics at the American University of Sharjah, UAE and theorist and practitioner in English/Arabic translation. He has worked and lectured widely at universities throughout the world, and has published extensively on Applied Linguistics, Text Linguistics, Translation/Interpreting and TESOL. |
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Yet, this has not stood in the way of applied linguists using linguistics in the search for solutions to a wide range of practical problems in fields as varied as language teaching and speech pathology. From an applied linguistic ...
Applications conducted along these lines invariably seek to solve a problem. In practice, however, the notion of 'problem' is not so straightforward. In attempting to deal with a perceived problem, the first complication likely to arise ...
That is, there has to be a realisation that a problem is 'real' and that it is recognised as a problem by the majority of those affected by it. Unless such a consensus is reached, the purpose of the analysis will remain unclear.
... to raise awareness and in the process engage practitioners in the identification and solution of problems, ... 'action' would simply be too mechanical a process to capture the intricacies and dynamics of real-life problem solutions.
... on the other hand, requires that current strategies and techniques be continuously reassessed for efficacy and that new problem-solution 'framings' be adopted even when seemingly similar situations arise (Argyris and Schön, 1978).
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Research models
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Developing practitioner research | 197 |
Links and resources | 265 |
References | 298 |
Index
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