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Band 1:: Viaggio, Sergio: A General Theory of interlingual Mediation. 407 S. - Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2006.
ISBN: 978-3-86596-063-4

The author has more than 30 years experience in literary and pragmatic translation and in conference interpreting. His book is the most ambitious attempt at unifying every aspect of translational and other connected activities under one overarching general theory. A most specific theory, at that, that conceptualises and explains what translators and interpreters actually do in real life and, at the same time, offers objective quality criteria. The book has many practical examples, from public announcements and owner's manuals for videocameras to poems by Pushkin and Shakespeare.

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Preface		S. 7
Part One. The theory and models. the precursors
Introduction		S. 15
To translate is, indeed, to speak in order to re-say what has been said in another language - but this is not enough		S. 34
I.	Speech, communication, translation and mediation	S. 37
II.	The specificity of interlangual mediation	S. 117
III.	Quality: the crucial issue descriptive studies cannot begin to approach	S. 147
Part Two. The model applied
IV.	Oral mediation	S. 167
V.	Written mediation	S. 209
VI.	The pudding of the proof: literary mediation	S. 263

References		S. 395

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Preface		S. 7
Part One. The theory and models. the precursors
Introduction		S. 15
To translate is, indeed, to speak in order to re-say what has been said in another language - but this is not enough		S. 34
I.	Speech, communication, translation and mediation	S. 37
	Why I think it advisable to develop García Landa's model	S. 37
	Translation and mediation	S. 45
	Relevance Theory developed	S. 47
	Some additional thoughts on similarity and identity	S. 50
	Thinking for speaking	S. 56
	The semantic representation shibboleth	S. 58
	The object of speech perception	S. 60
	A trivial example	S. 63
	My development of García Landa's models	S. 65
	The perquisites of speech perception	S. 71
	A more precise distinction between meaning and sense, context and situation	S. 76
	The asymmetriy between meaning and ability to mean and willingness and ability to understand	S. 91
	So is there room for perceptual identity after all?	S. 93
	A non-trivial example: The sad case of Derek Bentley	S. 94
	Practical consequences for mediators	S. 97
	What is, then, to "translate"	S. 101
	The problem of similarity reduced to size	S. 103
	Similarity, isotopy, equivalence and representation	S. 105
	Relevant identity - translation as mediation	S. 107
	A new definition of equivalence and adequateness	S. 111
	A mediator's deontologically accountable freedom	S. 112
	A door wide open for research	S. 113
II.	The specificity of interlangual mediation	S. 117
	All that translators do ist not translation	S. 117
	Translation as a modality of interlingual mediation	S. 121
	Interlingual mediation as something more (or less) than translation	S. 129
	Convergent, compatible and divergent face	S. 133
	Active and passive mediation	S. 134
	It is all a matter of power	S. 137
	The model of interlingual mediation	S. 142
	The competing claims on the mediator's loyalty	S. 144
	The emotive interest: the cognitive engine's fuel	S. 145
III.	Quality: the crucial issue descriptive studies cannot begin to approach	S. 147
	The limitations of antiseptic descriptivism	S. 147
	The chasm between professional and expectancy norms	S. 153
	The first normative statements	S. 157
	Quality in interlingual mediation	S. 159
	Pedagogical consequences	S. 163
Part Two. The model applied
IV.	Oral mediation	S. 167
	The ontological primacy of orality	S. 167
	The model of oral mediation	S. 168
	Relevance to the left, relevance at the centre and relevance to the right	S. 170
	Oral "texts" too can be instrumental or documentary	S. 172
	Modes of interpreting	S. 174
	Architypical social settings	S. 187
	Sign and tactile language interpretation	S. 203
	The australian model - the sensible way of the future	S. 204
	The gaping holes in interpreter training	S. 205
V.	Written mediation	S. 209
	An unnatural act	S. 209
	The model of written mediation	S. 211
	The model applied	S. 212
	Orality versus textuality	S. 254
	An informal tour of the thorny issue of the unit of translation	S. 260
VI.	The pudding of the proof: literary mediation	S. 263
	Literary speech	S. 263
	Form in literature	S. 269
	The formal constraints of the noetic space	S. 277
	And now for something completely practical	S. 281
	The semantic representation shibboleth revisited	S. 301
	Error in literary translation	S. 305
	A dose of Pushkin	S. 309
	Irreconcilable differences	S. 375
	And now for some Shakespeare	S. 377
	An extreme case	S. 382
	Conclusion	S. 391

References		S. 395

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