Publisher's Synopsis
This is a comprehensive 20-week course in translation method offering a challenging and entertaining approach to the acquisition of translation skills. It has been fully tested at the University of St Andrews.;Translation is presented as a problem-solving discipline. Discussion, examples and a full range of exercise work enable students to acquire the skills necessary for a broad range of translation problems. Examples are drawn from a wide variety of material from technical and commercial texts to poetry and song. The book is designed for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of German; it should also be useful to a wide range of language students and tutors through the general discussion of principles, purposes and practice of translation.
