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by James NOLAN
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
This book provides a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in the main aspects of the art. It is meant as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programmes, particularly for students preparing for conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings.
Conditions of Comparison
Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
How do we know the other culture? How do such inquiries impact on our knowledge of our own culture? These questions lie at the heart of comparative intercultural studies. As a theoretical inquiry into how conceptual resources of cultures (such as explicit and implicit categories of thought) may pre-figure...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book focuses on the theoretical foundation of notetaking (NT), an essential skill of consecutive interpreting. Explaining the "whys" pertaining to the cognitive, linguistic, and pedagogical issues surrounding NT, this book addresses this neglected aspect of notetaking discourse and...
Institutional Translation for International Governance
Enhancing Quality in Multilingual Legal Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of institutional translation issues related to the development of international law and policies for supranational integration and governance. These issues are explored from various angles in selected papers by guest specialists and findings of a large-scale...
Self-Translation and Power
Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the ‘power turn’ in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators....
by Nicholas P Cheremisinoff, Consulting Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This reference book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature, manufacture, structure, properties, processing, and applications of commercially available polymers.
The main feature of the book is the range of topics from both theory and practice, which means that physical properties and...
The Reconstruction of Modality in Chinese-English Government Press Conference Interpreting
A Corpus-Based Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
This book investigates a special genre of interpreting in the Chinese context, namely Government Press Conference (GPC) Interpreting. Drawing on the modality system from Systemic Functional Grammar and a corpus of 21 interpreting events, the project explores the regular patterns of modality shifts...
Computational Linguistics
15th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2017, Yangon, Myanmar, August 16–18, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2017, held in Yangon, Myanmar, in August 2017.
The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions....
Researching edTPA Promises and Problems
Perspectives from English as an Additional Language, English Language Arts, and World Language Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue to be scrutinized at the state and national levels. At present, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted edTPA to inform initial teacher licensure and/or certification decisions (American Association of Colleges for Teacher...
Travel Slanguage
How to Find Your Way in 10 Different Languages
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The popular Slanguage series has helped hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic fans learn to easily communicate better in foreign languages either while traveling abroad or at home. Now it takes on the topic of travel itself, presenting more than two dozen travel-related words and phrases in ten different...
by Jules Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The last forty years have seen a dramatic change in the nature of work, with deaf people increasingly moving into white collar or office-based professions. The rise of deaf professionals has led to employment opportunities for signed language interpreters across a variety of workplace settings, creating...
by Carlos Djomo
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
THE INTERNET IS AN OCEAN - HERE'S YOUR COMPASS
Everyone - including you - hate to spend hours searching online for important stuff with less satisfying results. So, why continue the same way? Fortunately, there are little-known strategies you could leverage to up your online searching game....
Translation Quality Assessment
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Translation Quality Assessment has become one of the key issues in translation studies. This comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of translation evaluation makes explicit the grounds of judging the worth of a translation and emphasizes that translation is, at its core, a linguistic art.
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by Yeral E. Ogando
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Teach Yourself Haitian Creole Two Volume Bundle comes is the perfect combination of Teach Yourself Haitian Creole Volume One and Teach Yourself Haitian Creole Conversation Volume Two.
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