A Propaedeutics of Translation Studies – Book review

Antony Hoyte-West

doi:10.33919/esnbu.25.2.10

A Propaedeutics of Translation Studies – Book review

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Antony Hoyte-West Nottingham Trent University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.25.2.10

Keywords:

book review, Translation Studies, propaedeutics, Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová, Miroslava Gavurová, Jonathan Gresty

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Book Details:

Title:
A Propaedeutics of Translation Studies

Autors:
Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová, Miroslava Gavurová, Jonathan Gresty

Publisher: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove vo Vydavateľstve Prešovskej univerzity

Number of pages: 194 pages

Year of publication: 2024

ISBN:
978-80-555-3302-5 (print),

Also available as:
978-80-555-3294-3 (eBook)

Author Biography

Antony Hoyte-West, Nottingham Trent University

Antony Hoyte-West is a Research Fellow on a joint AHRC-DFG project at Nottingham Trent University and additionally conducts independent research on literature, history, and translation studies. He is the author of over 120 publications and serves on the boards of a dozen peer-reviewed journals. A member of several international scholarly networks, he has been a visiting fellow at institutions in Germany and Bulgaria and has also completed temporary contracts at universities in Poland and Slovenia.

References

Bednárová-Gibová, K., & Gavurová, M. (2023). A coursebook on translation: A task-based approach to the art & craft of translation. Prešovská univerzita v Prešove vo Vydavateľstve Prešovskej univerzity. https://elibrary.pulib.sk/elpub/document/isbn/9788055531663

Bednárová-Gibová, K., & Gresty, J. (2022). An exercise book of translation. Prešovská univerzita v Prešove. https://elibrary.pulib.sk/elpub/document/isbn/9788055529240

Bednárová-Gibová, K., Gavurová, M., & Gresty, J. (2024). A propaedeutics of Translation Studies. Prešovská univerzita v Prešove vo Vydavateľstve Prešovskej univerzity. https://elibrary.pulib.sk/elpub/document/isbn/9788055532943

Catford, J. C. (1965). A linguistic theory of translation: An essay in applied linguistics. Oxford University Press.

Chesterman, A. (2009). The name and nature of translator studies. Hermes - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 42, 13-22. https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v22i42.96844

Holmes, J. S. (2000 ['1972']). The name and nature of Translation Studies. In L. Venuti (Ed.), The Translation Studies Reader (1st ed.) (pp. 172-185). Routledge.

Newmark, P. (1988). A textbook on translation. Prentice Hall.

Rondziková, N. (2020). On selected aspects of the literary translation profession in Slovakia. Bridge: Trends and Traditions in Translation and Interpreting Studies, 1(1), 101-117.

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Hoyte-West, A. (2025). A Propaedeutics of Translation Studies – Book review. English Studies at NBU, 11(2), 354–357. https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.25.2.10

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