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Found in Translation
How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Translation. It’s everywhere we look, but seldom seen—until now. Found in Translation reveals the surprising and complex ways that translation shapes the world. Covering everything from holy books to hurricane warnings and poetry to peace treaties, Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche offer language...
Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
A Sociopolitical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
In order to ensure its absolute authority, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948), the Japanese counterpart of the Nuremberg Trial, adopted a three-tier structure for its interpreting: Japanese nationals interpreted the proceedings, second-generation Japanese-Americans monitored the interpreting,...
by Susan Bassnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation...
Perspectives on Literature and Translation
Creation, Circulation, Reception
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This volume explores the relationship between literature and translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The distinctiveness of the volume lies in...
Specialised Translation
Shedding the 'Non-Literary' Tag
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
This book shifts the common perception of specialised or 'LSP' translation as necessarily banal and straightforward towards a more realistic understanding of it as a complex and multilayered phenomenon which belies its standard negative binary definition as 'non-literary'.
by John Yunker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
“Well written and in a straight-to-the point, jargon-free style, it is a very useful orientation and reference for ... the often stressful task of choosing a translation agency.”
by Maurice CARDER
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2007
International Schools have developed since their inception from a largely native English-speaking student body to schools such as the author’s, the Vienna International School (VIS), where there are students of 90 nationalities with 65 mother tongues. Maurice Carder proposes a “three-programme model”...
Basic notions of Translation Theory
For B.A. students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2019
This book reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western...
Memories In Translation
A Life between the Lines of Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic English translator of our time." With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic novels, short stories, plays, and poetry to his name,...
Zubi!
The Real Hebrew You Were Never Taught in School
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
How to talk dirty and influence people-in Hebrew!
You can study Hebrew for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume's foreign language series, Zubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases for a variety of situations,including...
Frae Ither Tongues
Essays on Modern Translations into Scots
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2004
Not only has the period of the past seventy years been the richest for literary translation into Scots since the sixteenth century, but it can claim to be the richest in terms of the quantity of work and the range of languages and genres translated. This collection of essays, by translators and critics,...
From Khartoum to Jerusalem
The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885–1933)
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the...
Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement
Translation and Transcultural Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
The book traces the literary journey that Proust’s work made to China and back by means of translation, intertextual engagement, and the creation of a transcultural dialogue through migrant literature. It begins with a translation history of Proust’s work in China and studies the different (re)translations...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law has assumed a significance which it would be hard to overstate. The following situations are typical. A French law school is teaching French...