Textual Translation and Live Translation: The total experience of nonverbal communication in literature, theater and cinema

After the many interdisciplinary perspectives on nonverbal communication offered by the author in his previous seven John Benjamins books, which have generated a wide range of scholarly applications, the present monograph is dominated by a very broad concept of translation. This treatment of translation includes theater and cinema (enriching our intellectual-sensorial experience of both 'reading act' and 'viewing act') and offers among other topics: sensorial-intellectual-emotional pre- and post-reading interactions with books; mute or audible 'oralization' of texts; the translator's linguistic and nonverbal-cultural fluency and implicit textual paralanguage and kinesics; translating functions of pictorial illustrations; the blind's text and film perception; the foreign reader's cultural background and circumstances; theater and cinema spectators' total sensory-intellectual experience of plays and films beyond staging or projection; the multiple interrelationships between cinema and theater performers, spectators and their environments, of special interest to all those involved in the theater; and the translator's challenging textual perception of sounds and movements. Over 800 literary quotations, and two virtually exhaustive English inventories of sound- and movement-denoting words with many examples, offer serious students of translation, language or literature a rich reference and drill source.

Table of contents

 

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	xvii–xix
Chapter 1. The reading act, 1: Personal and environmental aspects of our sensory and intellectual interaction with the book	1–40
Chapter 2. The reading act, 2: The verbal and nonverbal components in the translated text and the reader's oralization of it	41–84
Chapter 3. The reading act, 3: Vision, creation, recreation, and the relationship writer-translator-reader	85–110
Chapter 4. From reading act to viewing act: The translating nature of pictorial illustrations and of theater and cinema performances	111–134
Chapter 5. The viewing-listening act in the theater and the cinema: Translation and recreation from text to performance	135–172
Chapter 6. The sounds of paralanguage in translation: Our voices between cultures in the novel, the theater and the cinema	173–218
Chapter 7. The sounds beyond language and paralanguage in the novel, the theater and the cinema: Evocation and live realization	219–254
Chapter 8. Translating kinesics: Spatial and temporal perspectives in the novel, the theater and the cinema	255–294
Appendix I. An English inventory of sounds-denoting words	295–314
Appendix II. An English inventory of movement-denoting words	315–338
List of illustrations	339
Scientific references	341
Literary references	343–352
Films cited	353–354
Index of literary authors and works cited	355–360
Name index	361–362
Subject index	363–365