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Edited by Anthony Pym & Alexander Perekrestenko

Intercultural Studies Group
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2008

ISBN: 978-84-611-8821-5 

Printed copies of the book can be purchased for 20 euros each. Please order from
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Contents of the book
(The articles comprising the volume can be downloaded separately here)

Presentation  1 
Richard Mansell,
Optimality in translation
 3 
Faraz Forghan-Parast,
Towards a cybernetic model of translation
 13 
Julie McDonough,
Translation during the 1980 and 1995 Independence Referenda in Canada
 25 
Sandra Poupaud,
Agency in translation, Hispanic literature in France, 1984-2002
 37 
Jennifer Varney,
Taboo and the translator: A survey of translators' notes in Italian translations of Anglo-American fiction, 1945-2005
 47 
Ayşenaz Koş,
Analysis of the paratexts of Simone de Beauvoir's works in Turkish
 59 
Chun Li,
Going ambiguous for reader empowerment. An exploration of the literal translation by Lu Zhen Zhong of First John of the New Testament
 69 
Nataša Pavlović,
Directionality in translation and interpreting. Preliminary report on a questionnaire survey in Croatia
 79 
Hiroko Inose,
Translating Japanese onomatopoeia and mimetic words
 97 
Renata Kamenická,
Explicitation profile and translator style
 117 


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