Part One:Aspects of Translation Theory 1
1.The theory and the craft of translation 3
2.What translation theory is about 19
3.Communicative and semantic translation(Ⅰ) 38
4.Thought,speech and translation 57
5.Communicative and semantic translation(Ⅱ) 62
6.The translation of proper names and institutional and cultural terms 70
7.The translation of metaphor 84
8.The translation process and synonymy 97
9.Translation and the metalingual function of language 105
Part Two:Some Propositions on Translation 111
Introduction 113
Linguistics of translation 114
Theory of translation 127
Techniques 145
Aspects of meaning 161
Punctuation 171
Text analysis 176
Wider questions 180
Technical translation 187
Notes to propositions 189
Bibliography 191
Name index 197
Subject index 199