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This chapter focuses on students’ interaction with texts whose translation demand is increasing as a result of globalized processes that are transforming the entertainment industry, international politics, and the media. The chapter weighs the merits of having student-translators reflect on Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory, as well as Gutt’s adaptation of this theory to explain the translation process. The authors describe how students enrolled in a master’s level translation course gained insight on pragmatic aspects of language processing and applied their explicit knowledge of pragmatics to the translation of political speeches and film subtitling. The students worked with English and Spanish source texts and target texts.
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Godev, C.B., Sykes, M. (2018). Understanding Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Through Translation of Political Speeches and Audiovisual Material. In: Godev, C. (eds) Translation, Globalization and Translocation. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61818-0_7
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