title: Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
author: Douglas H. Robinson
description: Absolutely up-to-date and state of the art in the practical as well as theoretical aspect of translation, this new edition of <i>Becoming a Translator</i> retains the strength of the first edition while offering new sections on current issues. Bright, lively and witty, the book is filled with entertaining and thoughtful examples; I would recommend it to teachers offering courses to beginning and advanced students, and to any translator who wishes to know where the field is today..<br /><b>Malcolm Hayward, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA</b><br /><br />A very useful book...I would recommend it to students who aim at a career in translation as a valuable introduction to the profession and an initiation into the social and transactional skills which it requires..<br /><b>Mike Routledge, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK</b>
zlib_text: The Translator as Communicator
  Adopting an integrated approach to the practice of translation, Hatim and Mason
  provide a refreshingly unprejudiced contribution to translation theory.
  The authors argue that the division of the subject into literary and non-literary,
  technical and non-technical is unhelpful and misleading. Instead of dwelling on
  these differentials, the authors focus on what common ground exists between
  these distinctions. Through their investigation into how, for example, the ‘Bible’
  translator and the simultaneous interpreter can learn from each other, sets of
  parameters begin to evolve. The proposed model is presented through a series of
  case studies, ranging from legal texts to poems, each of which focuses on one
  particular feature of text constitution, while not losing sight of how this
  contributes to the whole analytic apparatus.
  Their approach is durable and meaningful, especially in view of recent
  developments in the study of translation and communication, and th