Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New Perspectives and Challenges in Literature, Interpretation and the Media

Fernando Poyatos

John Benjamins Publishing, 1997 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 361 pages

This is the first book, within the interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies, dealing with the specific tasks and problems involved in the translation of literary works as well as film and television texts, and in the live experience of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation. The theoretical and methodological ideas and models it contains should merit the interest not only of students of literature, professional translators and translatologists, interpreters, and those engaged in film and television dubbing, but also to literary readers, film and theatergoers, linguists and psycholinguists, semioticians, communicologists, and crosscultural anthropologists. Its sixteen contributions by translation scholars and professional interpreters from fifteen countries, deal with discourse in translation, intercultural problems, narrative literature, theater, poetry, interpretation, and film and television dubbing.

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Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Part 1 Discourse and Nonverbal Communication: 15
• Aspects problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation: 17
• Discourse features in nonverbal communication Implications for the translator: 49
• Part 2 Cultures in Translation: 67
• The identification of gestural images in Chinese literary expressions: 69
• Some aspects of Japanese cultural ethos embedded in nonverbal communicative behavior: 83
• Part 3 Narrative Literature: 105
• Alice abroad Dealing with descriptions and transcriptions of paralanguage in literary translation: 107
• The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzonis I Promessi Sposi: 131
• Punctuation in Hans Christian Andersens stories and in their translations into English: 151
• Matching verbal and nonverbal communication in a Holocaust memoir and its translation: 163
• Part 4 Theater: 185
• Is this a dagger which I see before me? The nonverbal language of drama: 187
• Verbal and nonverbal constituents in theatrical texts and implications for translators: 203
• Part 5 Poetry: 215
• Whose morsel of lips will you bite? Some reflections on the role of prosody and genre as nonverbal elements in the translation of poetry: 217
• Part 6 Interpretation: 247
• The reality of multichannel verbalnonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation: 249
• Kinesics and the simultaneous interpreter The advantages of listening with ones eyes and speaking with ones body: 283
• From Babel to Brussels Conference interpreting and the art of the impossible: 295
• Film and Television Dubbing: 313
• Translating nonverbal information in dubbing: 315
• Dubbing and the nonverbal dimension of translation: 327
• List of contributors: 343
• Name index: 349
• Subject index: 357
• The series Benjamins Translation Library: 363

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New Perspectives and Challenges in Literature, Interpretation and the Media; Volume 17 of Benjamins translation library
• Editor: Fernando Poyatos
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing, 1997
• ISBN: 9027216185, 9789027216182
• Length: 361 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting