Translating Interpreting category: 690 books
CIUTI-Forum 2015
Pillars of Communication in Times of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The speakers of the 2015 edition of the Forum all showed a particular interest in interdisciplinary research and training. The representatives of translation industry, international and national entities and organisations, professional associations, trainers and researchers offered deep insights into...
Discourse Markers Across Languages
A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion...
The Anatomy of Translation Problems
The Application of Minimal Deviation and the Proportionality Principle in the Translation of Economic Editorials
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
‘The Anatomy of Translation Problems’ is the summation of the author’s extensive teaching experience in the translation of economic editorials. Throughout the author’s teaching experiences, Dr Lai has identified several problems that occur in a high frequency for both the beginner as well...
Translation and Social Media
In Theory, in Training and in Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Offering a discussion of translation and social media through three themes, theory, training and professional practice, this book builds on emerging research in Translation Studies, including references citing recent translation and social media industry data. Topics include the translation of hashtags and the relevance of indexing, among others.
Translator Self-Training--German
Practical Course in Technical Translation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Instructions on how to translate general as well as legal, medical, and business documents from German to English and from English to German.
Translator Self-Training--Italian
A Practical Course in Technical Translation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Designed to improve translation skills in Italian.
Translator Self-Training--Russian
A Practical Course in Technical Translation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Designed to improve translation skills in Russian.
Conditions of Comparison
Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
How do we know the other culture? How do such inquiries impact on our knowledge of our own culture? These questions lie at the heart of comparative intercultural studies. As a theoretical inquiry into how conceptual resources of cultures (such as explicit and implicit categories of thought) may pre-figure...
Institutional Translation for International Governance
Enhancing Quality in Multilingual Legal Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of institutional translation issues related to the development of international law and policies for supranational integration and governance. These issues are explored from various angles in selected papers by guest specialists and findings of a large-scale...
Self-Translation and Power
Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the ‘power turn’ in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators....
by Nicholas P Cheremisinoff, Consulting Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This reference book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature, manufacture, structure, properties, processing, and applications of commercially available polymers.
The main feature of the book is the range of topics from both theory and practice, which means that physical properties and...
Computational Linguistics
15th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2017, Yangon, Myanmar, August 16–18, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2017, held in Yangon, Myanmar, in August 2017.
The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions....
Researching edTPA Promises and Problems
Perspectives from English as an Additional Language, English Language Arts, and World Language Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue to be scrutinized at the state and national levels. At present, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted edTPA to inform initial teacher licensure and/or certification decisions (American Association of Colleges for Teacher...
Travel Slanguage
How to Find Your Way in 10 Different Languages
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The popular Slanguage series has helped hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic fans learn to easily communicate better in foreign languages either while traveling abroad or at home. Now it takes on the topic of travel itself, presenting more than two dozen travel-related words and phrases in ten different...