NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION AND TRANSLATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The contributions to the volume -- References -- Part 1. Discourse and Nonverbal Communication -- Aspects, problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The physical and circumstantial conditioning elements of the reading experience -- 3. The physiological basis of text perception and interpretation: Vision and the reading act -- 4. The role of punctuation symbols -- 5. The speaking face and body of the character and its perception in the written text and its translation -- 6. Explicit presence of paralanguage in the text: Verbal description and visual transcription -- 7. Implicit presence of paralanguage in the text: Intersystemic co-structuration, personality, situational context and culture -- 8. The implicit presence of kinesic behaviors in the text -- 9. Audible kinesics: Quasiparalinguistic sounding movements -- 10. Environmental sounds -- 11. The echoic repertoire and the expressive richness of a language -- 12. Silences in the narrative text -- 13. The semiotic-communicative possibilities and the problems of representation and description -- 14. Multiple descriptions, ambiguous descriptions and functional descriptions -- 15. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Literary references -- Discourse features in non-verbal communication Implications for the translator -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The graphically verbalized and the verbal proper -- 3. The writer's creative angle -- 4. The translator's position -- 5. The frame and scene model -- 6. Popular fiction: Socio-textual practice and the non-verbal -- 7. Graphically representational language in non-fiction -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Literary References -- Part 2. Cultures in Translation -- The identification of gestural images in Chinese literary expressions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Written expressions with explicit gestural descriptions -- 3. Written expressions with less explicit gestural description -- 4. Gesturally based classical expressions -- 5. Some contrasts in cross-cultural observation in gestures -- 6. Some Chinese gestures and their European equivalents -- 7. The case of left and right -- 8. The case of Yes and No -- 9. The case of past and future -- Notes -- References and Bibliography -- Some aspects of Japanese cultural ethos embedded in nonverbal communicative behavior -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Importance of nonverbal communication in Japan -- 3. Different views in different cultures: Examples from eye movements -- 4. Japanese crying -- 5. Japanese smiling -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Literary References -- Part 3. Narrative Literature -- Alice abroad Dealing with descriptions and transcriptions of paralanguage in literary translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. General considerations -- 3. Paralinguistic behavioremes in Alice in Wonderland -- 4. A functional classification of paralinguistic behavioremes -- 5. Translating paralanguage -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A diachronic comparison: Gestures in I Promessi Sposi and in contemporary Italy -- 3. Gestures commonly used and widespread in the western world -- 4. Gestures no longer used or rarely used at present in the western world -- 5. A diatopic comparison: Gestures in I Promessi Sposi and in contemporary English and German speaking communities -- 6. The translator's intervention -- 7. Presence of illustrations of gestures -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Literary References -- Appendix of Figures -- Appendix of Tables -- Punctuation in Hans Christian Andersen's stories and in their translations into English -- 1. Punctuation in translation -- 2. Limitations of the transcriptional view of punctuation -- 3. In search of a better explanation -- 4. An example -- 5. Analyses -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Text sources -- References -- Matching verbal and nonverbal communication in a Holocaust memoir and its translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The text -- 3. The linguistic analysis -- 4. The Interface of the verbal and nonverbal in the text -- 5. The translated text: The extralinguistic-nonverbal element -- 6. The translated text: The paralinguistic element -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part 4. Theater -- "Is this a dagger which I see before me?" The non-verbal language of drama -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The theatrical sign as icon, index and symbol -- 3. Paralanguage, kinesics, proxemics and the stage text -- 4. The stage text as sensory stimulus: A holistic approach -- 5. The non-verbal language of drama in translation -- Notes -- References -- Verbal and non-verbal constituents in theatrical texts and implications for translators -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbal and non-verbal communications -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Part 5. Poetry -- "Whose morsel of lips will you bite?" Some reflections on the role of prosody and genre as non-verbal elements in the translation of poetry -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Traditional rhetoric and the concept of 'genre': Esthetics vs. poetics -- 3. Physical aspects of poetry: Breathing and sound -- 4. The visual aspects of poetry -- 5. Aural aspects of poetry -- 6. Social aspects of poetry -- 7. A radical example of 'holistic' poetry translation: Zukofsky's 'Little' -- 8. By way of conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Part 6. Interpretation.

The reality of multichannel verbal-nonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbal and nonverbal components in the interpretation situation -- 3. Interpretation in the total context of interpersonal and environmental interaction -- 4. The basic relationships of nonverbal systems to words -- 5. The limitation of words: Verbal ineffability and nonverbal expressiveness -- 6. The capacity of nonverbal systems to function grammatically in speech and the interpreter's 'oral footnotes' -- 7. The ten different realizations of language, paralanguage and kinesics -- 8. The encoding-decoding problems between speaker, interpreter and listener in intercultural interaction -- 9. The chronemics of interpretation -- 10. Silence and stillness in the interpretation situation -- 11. The categories of visual nonverbal behaviors -- 12. The structure of conversation in the interpretation situation -- 13. Language, paralanguage and kinesics in reduced interaction: Its problems and the interpreter's position and responsibility -- 14. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Kinesics and the simultaneous interpreter The advantages of listening with one's eyes and speaking with one's body -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why interpreters insist on seeing what they are listening to -- 3. Why interpreters demand to see who is listening to them -- 4. Why interpreters would also like to see everybody else -- 5. Why interpreters cannot quite explain why -- 6. Why interpreters should be prepared to put their foot down whenever bereft of visual input -- 7. Why interpreters are well advised to interpret as if they were talking, gestures and all -- 8. Why all of the above should be very much taught and very much from the very beginning -- Notes -- References -- From Babel to Brussels Conference interpreting and the art of the impossible.

1. Introduction -- 2. How the message is scrambled -- 3. Joyful chaos: Some illustrative anecdotes -- 4. The art of the impossible: Unscrambling the message -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 7. The Audiovisual Channels for Translation: Film and Television Dubbing -- Translating non-verbal information in dubbing -- 1. Introduction: The importance of the mode of discourse in audiovisual texts -- 2. The degree of relevance of non-verbal information in traditional text-types -- 3. The interaction between verbal narration and visual narration -- 4. The role of non-verbal information in dubbing -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Dubbing and the nonverbal dimension of translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic approaches to translation -- 3. Translation studies as a discipline -- 4. The priorities and restrictions of translation -- 5. Translating for the screen -- 6. Translating tactics and solutions -- 7. The semiotic and nonverbal dimension of translating -- 8. Conclusion -- References and Bibliography -- List of contributors -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Benjamins Translation Library.