Translating Interpreting category: 690 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation is of relevance to researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information retrieval. It is also of interest to translation...
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families
Theories and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families: Theories and Contexts brings together an international group of researchers to share their findings on language brokering—when immigrant children translate for their parents and other adults. Given the large amount of immigration occurring worldwide, it...
Happiness--Found in Translation
A Glossary of Joy from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A beautifully illustrated dictionary of words from around the world that describe experiences of happiness for which there are no equivalents in the English language.
Have you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe because there was no word in English that captured it? Our ability...
by Ronnie Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Italian words that resemble words in English but have different meanings are the cause of student bafflement and some hilariously mistaken usage. Examples of falsi amici that continue to amuse teachers of Italian include casino, which is a brothel or mess, not a gambling place, and intossicazione,...
by Alexandr Zaytsev
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Lying at the intersection of translatology, cognitive science and linguistics, this brief provides a comprehensive framework for studying, investigating and teaching English-Russian/Russian-English non-literary translation. It provides a holistic perspective on the process of non-literary translation,...
Merda!
The Real Italian You Were Never Taught in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1993
At last, a humorous, uncensored language guide to the colorful slang and rude colloquialisms that are so essential to a true understanding of everyday Italian. For the first time, all those words and phrases that were deemed off-color for the classroom are included in one volume.
Health Translation and Media Communication
A Corpus Study of the Media Communication of Translated Health Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Cross-sectoral interaction and cooperation in the communication of nutritional health risks represents a strategic research area among national governments and international health authorities. The key research question this book addresses is whether and how different industrial sectors interact with...
Translation and Public Policy
Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely...
Law, Language and Translation
From Concepts to Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This book is a survey of how law, language and translation overlap with concepts, crimes and conflicts. It is a transdisciplinary survey exploring the dynamics of colonialism and the globalization of crime. Concepts and conflicts are used here to mean ‘conflicting interpretations’ engendering...
Translation Sites
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
In Translation Sites, leading theorist Sherry Simon shows how the processes and effects of translation pervade contemporary life. This field guide is an invitation to explore hotels, markets, museums, checkpoints, gardens, bridges, towers and streets as sites of translation. These are spaces whose...
Dictionary of Translation Studies
with terms of semiotics, psychology textology, linguistics, stylistics
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2019
A Dictionary of Translation Studies with 250 terms of semiotics, psychology textology, linguistics, stylistics. The most complete on the market, comprehensive of the terms of Peircean semiotics and the Tartu-Moscow school, of the Nitra school, and of the Israeli-Netherlandish school. Written originally...
Juri Lotman's Translation Handbook
What a translation handbook would look like if written by Juri Lotman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2019
This book is based on the principle that it is possible to create a text using the writings of an author, focusing on a theme that was not necessarily considered as fundamental or central in the original author’s view. Lotman has never dealt with translation, meant as a professional practice. However,...
Researching Audio Description
New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Audio description is one of the many services available to guarantee accessibility to audiovisual media. It describes and narrates images and sounds and resulting audio is then mixed with the original soundtrack. Audio description is a complex process that touches production, distribution and reception. Researching...
by Pascal Hénault-Parfond
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2014
(fr) - Ebook ludique pour découvrir le créole martiniquais par des textes et leurs traductions en anglais et en français.
(en) - playful Ebook that will make you discover the martinican creole with texts translated in english and french.