Registerial Expertise in Traditional Chinese Medical Translation [Hardcover]

Yan Yue?has a PhD in linguistics from Macquarie University, Australia. She is currently a Postdoc research fellow at Sun Yat Sen University, China.

1. Introduction  2. Translation complexities  3. Translation as registerial interaction in cross-cultural communication  4. Language indeterminacy: a systemic functional perspective  5. The role of registerial expertise in logical indeterminacy  6. The role of registerial expertise in translators epistemic voice  7. The role of registerial expertise cohesion and coherence  8. Conclusion

Yues book explores the nature of translation using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the TCM classic Huangdi Neijing and its various translations. Yue examines in great detail and depth the important factors that cause the differences in the translators treatment of language indeterminacies.

Yues book explores the nature of translation using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the TCM classic Huangdi Neijing and its various translations. Yue examines in great detail and depth the important factors that cause the differences in the translators treatment of language indeterminacies.

Apart from having multi-faceted and fine-grained linguistic analysis, this book also serves as a good model of methodology, in terms of corpus building, contrastive analysis, exemplification, and glossing following systemic functional linguistics (SFL) convention. This book is an argument for greater emphasis on the linguistic notion of register in translators expertise, specifically in the way that professional experience and training  with their registerial demands  may be the key to semantic decisions forced on a translator by the inevitable vagaries and indeterminacies of establishing a working equivlc—