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A culture is a way of perceiving reality. The verb “perceive” should not lead to mistakes. Someone may think that since objective reality of a culture is unique, all people must perceive it in the same way. But perception is a subjective matter and what is being perceived is not the photograph...

This book presents the state-of-art research in ETS by illustrating useful corpus methodologies in the study of important translational genres such as political texts, literature and media translations. Empirical Translation Studies (ETS) represents one of the most exciting fields of research. It...

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The translator-in-training is guided through various areas of technical translation, from business and finance to law, medicine and the media. This series offers the next and final step toward becoming a successful professional translator.

This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. Bourdieu’s work has continued to inspire research on translation in the last few years, though without a detailed, large-scale investigation that...

New pedagogy for studying literature in translation In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through...

La traduction dite « littéraire » est l’espace d’un double travail, celui des langues sur les littératures, celui des littératures sur les langues. À l’âge de la mondialisation, et d’une emprise économique et technique sans précédent, la tentative indéfiniment recommencée entre...

This Handbook maps the contours of an exciting and burgeoning interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of language and languages in situations of conflict. It explores conceptual approaches, sources of information that are available, and the institutions and actors that mediate language encounters....

Thank you for your interest in IELTS Academic Training Reading Practice Test #7. It is recommended by many IELTS experts that you practise for your IELTS exam daily. You should begin practising at least 6 months in advance. Of course, that means you will need many IELTS practice...

This book sheds light on the ways in which the on-going Israeli-Arab conflict has shaped Arabic language instruction. Due to its interdisciplinary nature it will be of great interest to academics and researchers in security and middle eastern studies as well as those focused on language and linguistics.

This publication of Army Regulation AR 11-16, Army Programs – Army Foreign Language Program 23 August 2013, is a rapid action revision. This rapid action revision is effective 23 September 2013. The portions affected by this rapid action revision are listed in the summary of change.  ...

Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island nation have been widely disseminated in North America, most of us cannot imagine what everyday life is like in Japan. Tomoko Mitani's work addresses this...

The question of the relativity of interpretations and the relevance of the author's intentions for interpretation has been at the center of controversy for the past century in different philosophical traditions, but there has been very little effort to examine the different ways this question has...