Nonverbal communication and translation : new perspectives and challenges in literature, interpretation and the media / edited by Fernando Poyatos. - ix, 361 pages ; 23 cm. - Benjamins translation library, v. 17 0929-7316 ; . - Benjamins translation library ; v. 17. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Discourse and nonverbal communication -- Aspects, problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation -- Discourse features in non-verbal communication: Implications for the translator -- Cultures in translation -- The identification of gestural images in Chinese literary expressions -- Some aspects of Japanese cultural ethos embedded in nonverbal communicative behavior -- Narrative literature -- Alice abroad: Dealing with descriptions and transcriptions of paralanguage in literary translation -- The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi -- Punctuation in Hans Christian Andersen's stories and in their translations into English -- Matching verbal and nonverbal communication in a Holocaust memoir and its translation -- Theater -- "Is this a dagger which I see before me?": The non-verbal language of drama -- Verbal and non-verbal constituents in theatrical texts and implications for translators -- Poetry -- "Whose morsel of lips with you bite?": Some reflections on the role of prosody and genre as non-verbal elements in the translation of poetry -- Interpretation -- The reality of multichannel verbal-nonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation -- Kinesics and the simultaneous interpreter: The advantages of listening with one's eyes and speaking with one's body -- From Babel to Brussels: Conference interpreting and the art of the impossible -- The audiovisual channels for translation: Film and television dubbing -- Translating non-verbal information in dubbing -- Dubbing and the nonverbal dimension of translation -- List of contributors -- Name index -- Subject index. Pt. 1. Pt. 2. Pt. 3. Pt. 4. Pt. 5. Pt. 6. Pt. 7.



1556196997 9781556196997 9027216185 9789027216182

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Translating and interpreting.
Nonverbal communication.

P306.2 / .N66 1997

418.04