Böcker av Douglas (Chinese University of Hong Kong Robinson

Robinson and Sun's book explores the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation). It will interest translation studies scholars and students and media scholars interested in the philosophical complexities of performativity.

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

This is a book in the classical Quaestiones genre, like the Tusculanae Quaestiones (“Tusculan questionsâ€?) of Cicero (around 45 BCE) and the Quÿstiones disputatÿ de Veritate (“disputed questions on truthâ€?) of St. Thomas Aquinas (1256-1259). It seeks to ask seven series of questions about key theoretical approaches to the study of translation: three on equivalence theories (semantic equivalence, dynamic equivalence, and deverbalization), three on Descriptive Translation Studies (norms, Toury‿s laws, and the translator‿s narratoriality), and one on the translator‿s visibility. Each “Questionâ€? (chapter) charts a circuitous course through past answers to new questions and new answers, drawing especially on the theoretical traditions of hermeneutics, phenomenology, and 4EA cognitive science. The book will guide both veteran and novice scholars of translation deep into the complexities besetting the seven keywords.