Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies - (Bloomsbury Advances in Translation) by Mira Kim & Jeremy Munday & Zhenhua Wang

Book Synopsis

The field of translation studies has grown rapidly over recent decades, with critical questions being investigated across the globe. Drawing together this scattered research, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies consolidates important propositions by drawing on systemic functional linguistics (SFL).

Using the SFL dimensions of stratification, rank, axis and delicacy to show how languages are more similar or more different, this book provides a state-of-the-art critical assessment of the interaction between SFL and translation studies. Highlighting the major contribution SFL can make in developing translation theories, a team of world-leading experts investigate how intricate and wide-ranging translation questions, such as re-instantiation and multimodality, can be most efficiently explored through a detailed meaning- and function-oriented linguistic theory. Examining the theoretical concepts and practical applications of SFL in the translation of a range of languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies provides a stimulus for new work spanning the two fields and suggests new directions for future research.

Review Quotes

[B]ringing together world-leading experts, this exciting new book provides us with a renewed understanding of the dynamic interaction between translation studies and SFL, introducing the most up-to-date developments in the area with both theoretical and practical implications. This book should be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students alike who are keen on the social and functional aspects of language use in our societies.
Journal of Pragmatics

This excellent volume presents new theoretical and empirical studies by well-known scholars united in their attempt to combine insights from systemic functional linguistics and translation- thus continuing a long and fruitful line of interaction between these two fields of inquiry.
Juliane House, Professor Emerita, Hamburg University, Germany

About the Author

Mira Kim is Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.

Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Zhenhua Wang is Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Pin Wang is Lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.