Translating Interpreting category: 690 books
Introducing Translation Studies
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date overview, it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide.
This fourth edition has been fully revised...
by Mustapha Taibi, Uldis Ozolins
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Investigating an important field within translation studies, Community Translation addresses the specific context, characteristics and needs of translation in and for communities. Traditional classifications in the fields of discourse and genre are of limited use to the field of translation studies,...
Metaphor and Entertainment
A Corpus-Based Approach to Language in Chinese Online News
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibrant and controversial news genres in contemporary China.
Translation and Fantasy Literature in Taiwan
Translators as Cultural Brokers and Social Networkers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book examines the rise in popularity of fantasy literature in Taiwan and the crucial but often invisible role that translators have played in making this genre widely available. Topics covered include global fantasy fever, Chinese fantasy, game industry, the social status of translators, and the sociological direction of translations studies.
Translation Strategies in Global News
What Sarkozy said in the suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences. Using English-language press coverage of inflammatory comments made by Nicolas Sarkozy in his role as French interior minister in 2005 as a case study, the author illustrates...
by Liberacion Narvios Tecson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The Philippine Islands, with a population of over ninety-seven million is comprised of seven thousand one hundred seventy islands with residents speaking seven hundred different dialects. Prominent among all the dialects are the Tagalog and Cebuano, widely spoken in many places in the archipelago....
Re-forming World Literature
Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The groundbreaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of world literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centers of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. Katherine...
Cultural Politics of Translation
East Africa in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book is the first full-length examination of the cultural politics at work in the act of translation in East Africa, providing close critical analyses of a variety of texts that demonstrate the myriad connections between translation and larger socio-political forces. Looking specifically at texts...
Translation in Russian Contexts
Culture, Politics, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
In an age of migration, in a world deeply divided through cultural differences and in the context of ongoing efforts to preserve national and regional traditions and identities, the issues of language and translation are becoming absolutely vital. At the heart of these complex, intercultural interactions...
The Man Between
Michael Henry Heim and a Life in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
When Michael Henry Heim-one of the most respected translators of his generation-passed away in the fall of 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy. Over his career, he translated over sixty works from more than eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus,...
Examining Text and Authorship in Translation
What Remains of Christa Wolf?
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is ‘translated’ in the literary text. In a detailed exploration of the writing of East German author Christa Wolf in English translation, it examines how the work of translators, publishers, readers...
Nature Power
In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Many of the stories in Okanagan storyteller Harry Robinson’s second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or nature helpers” that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who use these powers to heal themselves; others tell of Indian doctors with the power to heal others. Still others tell of power encounters of various kinds.
Roman Jakobson's Translation Handbook
What a translation manual would look like if written by Jakobson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Roman Jakobson has had a strange fate. Everybody knows his name and are willing to recognise him as an important character of the global cultural scene. Few, however, have read what he wrote beyond those four or five famous quotes. Quotes that, taken out of context, might not be understood completely...