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| List of figures | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| External knowledge: the user's view | |
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| Internal and external knowledge | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Textual reliability | |
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| The translator's reliability | |
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| Timeliness | |
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| Cost | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Internal knowledge: the translator's view | |
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| Who are translators? | |
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| Professional pride | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Involvement in the profession | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Income | |
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| Speed | |
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| Project management | |
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| Raising the status of the profession | |
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| Enjoyment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The process of translation | |
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| The shuttle: experience and habit | |
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| Charles Sanders Peirce on instinct, experience, and habit | |
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| Abduction, induction, deduction | |
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| Karl Weick on enactment, selection, and retention | |
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| The process of translation | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Drawing on experience: How being a translator is more than just being good at languages | |
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| What experience? | |
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| Intuitive leaps | |
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| Pattern-building | |
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| Rules and theories | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Starting with people: Social interaction as the first key focus of translators' experience of the world | |
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| "The meaning of a word is its use in the language" | |
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| Experiencing people | |
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| First impressions (intuitive leaps) | |
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| Deeper acquaintance (pattern-building) | |
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| Psychology (rules and theories) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Working with people: The workplace as the interactive setting for specialized terminologies | |
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| A new look at terminology | |
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| Faking it (intuitive leaps) | |
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| Working (pattern-building) | |
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| Terminology studies (rules and theories) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Activities | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Translation as an operation performed in and on languages | |
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| Translation and linguistics | |
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| What could that be? (intuitive leaps) | |
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| Doing things with words (pattern-building) | |
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| The translator and speech-act theory (rules and theories) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Working and understanding through social networks | |
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| The translator as social being | |
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| Pretending (intuitive leaps) | |
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| Pretending to be a translator | |
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| Pretending to be a source reader and target author | |
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| Pretending to belong to a language-use community | |
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| Learning to be a translator (pattern-building) | |
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| Teaching and theorizing translation as a social activity (rules and theories) | |
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| Skopos theory | |
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| The sociological turn in twenty-first-century translation studies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The impact on translation of culture(s) | |
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| Cultural knowledge | |
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| Self-projection into the foreign (intuitive leaps) | |
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| Immersion in cultures (pattern-building) | |
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| Intercultural awareness (rules and theories) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| When habit fails | |
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| The importance of analysis | |
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| The reticular activation system: alarm bells | |
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| Checking the rules (rules and theories) | |
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| Checking synonyms, alternatives (pattern-building) | |
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| Picking the rendition that feels right (intuitive leaps) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |