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Audiovisual Translation
Theories, Methods and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within translation studies.
This book addresses the need for more robust theoretical frameworks to investigate emerging text- types, address new methodological challenges (including the compilation, analysis and reproduction of audiovisual...
Corpus Methodologies Explained
An empirical approach to translation studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book introduces the latest advances in Corpus-Based Translation Studies (CBTS), a thriving subfield of Translation Studies which forms an important part of both translator training and empirical translation research. Largely empirical and exploratory, a distinctive feature of CBTS is the development...
by J IAN Mason
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Following the rapid expansion of translation studies as an emergent (inter-)discipline over recent decades, demand for doctoral research opportunities is now growing fast in many countries. At the same time, doctoral training packages of a generic nature have been elaborated and refined at many universities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation is of relevance to researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information retrieval. It is also of interest to translation...
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families
Theories and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families: Theories and Contexts brings together an international group of researchers to share their findings on language brokering—when immigrant children translate for their parents and other adults. Given the large amount of immigration occurring worldwide, it...
Happiness--Found in Translation
A Glossary of Joy from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A beautifully illustrated dictionary of words from around the world that describe experiences of happiness for which there are no equivalents in the English language.
Have you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe because there was no word in English that captured it? Our ability...
by Moira Inghilleri
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Bourdieu's key concepts of habitus, field and capital have been adopted or adapted to elaborate the social and cultural nature of translation or interpreting activity, to locate this activity within social structures and social institutions, and to analyse the cultural, historical and political specificity...
by Ronnie Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Italian words that resemble words in English but have different meanings are the cause of student bafflement and some hilariously mistaken usage. Examples of falsi amici that continue to amuse teachers of Italian include casino, which is a brothel or mess, not a gambling place, and intossicazione,...
by Alexandr Zaytsev
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Lying at the intersection of translatology, cognitive science and linguistics, this brief provides a comprehensive framework for studying, investigating and teaching English-Russian/Russian-English non-literary translation. It provides a holistic perspective on the process of non-literary translation,...
Merda!
The Real Italian You Were Never Taught in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1993
At last, a humorous, uncensored language guide to the colorful slang and rude colloquialisms that are so essential to a true understanding of everyday Italian. For the first time, all those words and phrases that were deemed off-color for the classroom are included in one volume.
Here or There
Research on Interpreting via Video Link
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The field of sign language interpreting is undergoing an exponential increase in the delivery of services through remote and video technologies. The nature of these technologies challenges established notions of interpreting as a situated, communicative event and of the interpreter as a participant....
Health Translation and Media Communication
A Corpus Study of the Media Communication of Translated Health Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Cross-sectoral interaction and cooperation in the communication of nutritional health risks represents a strategic research area among national governments and international health authorities. The key research question this book addresses is whether and how different industrial sectors interact with...
Translation and Public Policy
Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely...
Law, Language and Translation
From Concepts to Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This book is a survey of how law, language and translation overlap with concepts, crimes and conflicts. It is a transdisciplinary survey exploring the dynamics of colonialism and the globalization of crime. Concepts and conflicts are used here to mean ‘conflicting interpretations’ engendering...