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The Translation Zone
A New Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework...
Motherless Tongues
The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial settings, he demonstrates translation's agency in the...
Theories of Translation
An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in thinking...
by Sujit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any...
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
What’S Up?
Vocabulary for Those New to the United States, Volume Ii
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Learning the lingo used in the United States can be hard enough for a native speaker, but its even more daunting for immigrants. Jimmy Gyasi Boateng, a native of Ghana, has been living in the US since 1978long enough to successfully adapt to life in a new place. Determining how to use vocabulary has...
by Tahir Khan Arzani
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This collection of contemporary poetry is written in four languages: English, Urdu, Persian & Punjabi, with a stunning presentation of background images that compliment the poems. He writes the traditional Ghazal along with experimenting with other contemporary styles of poetic form. All poetry...
L’alfabet européen appliqué aux langues asiatiques
( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Définitions et Principes.....
On appelle alphabet la liste méthodique des lettres qui, par convention, servent à figurer les sons élémentaires d’une langue quelconque....
Chez les anciens Grecs, de qui viennent nos beaux-arts, cette liste commençait par A, B; et comme ces deux...
Learning Sign Language
Tips for learning American Sign Language and other signed languages
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Learning Sign Language is a great resource of tips and tricks for those taking classes or who are interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL). Instead of an instructional book on using sign language, this is a manual that helps the student know how to learn signs.
If the interest...
The Ultimate Buyers’ Guide to Translation
Translation process, vendors, QA, DTP, tools, tips and more
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
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Don’t do anything until you’ve read this book. The world of translation services is vast, complex and busy – and although many providers are reputable professionals, it’s still easy for an unsuspecting...
by Mary Phelan
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
The Interpreter’s Resource provides a comprehensive overview of interpreting at the start of the twenty first century. As well as explaining the different types of interpreting and their uses, it contains a number of Codes of Ethics, information on Community Interpreting around the world and detailed coverage of international organisations, which employ interpreters.
Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830
Nationalism, Ideology, Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge about...
Translation-mediated Communication in a Digital World
Facing the Challenges of Globalization and Localization
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
The Internet is accelerating globalization by exposing organizations and individuals to global audiences. This in turn is driving teletranslation and teleinterpretation, new types of multilingual support, which are functional in digital communications environments. The book describes teletranslation...
by Rudolf F. Graf, Professional Technical Writer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1999
Included in this fully revised classic are well over 28,000 terms, phrases, acronyms, and abbreviations from the ever-expanding worlds of consumer electronics, optics, microelectronics, computers, communications, and medical electronics. From the basic elements of theory to the most cutting-edge circuit...