Translating Interpreting category: 690 books

This volume outlines a new approach to the study of linguistic hybridity and its translation in cross-cultural writing. By building on concepts from narratology, cognitive poetics, stylistics, and film studies, it explores how linguistic hybridity contributes to the reader’s construction of the...

l This book evolved from the ARCADE evaluation exercise that started in 1995. The project's goal is to evaluate alignment systems for parallel texts, i. e. , texts accompanied by their translation. Thirteen teams from various places around the world have participated so far and for the first time,...

This volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which challenges the linguistic bias in translation studies by proposing a semiotic theory that accounts for all instances of translation, not only interlinguistic translation. In particular, the volume explores...

Padre Giuseppe Valentini è considerato, a livello mondiale, l'iniziatore della moderna Albanologia. Per oltre quarant'anni si è occupato di studiare la lingua, la storia e gli aspetti giuridico-amministrativi del Paese delle Aquile, scrivendo una quantità impressionante di articoli per riviste...

Conhecido por haver revolucionado a semiologia com Obra Aberta, em que propunha a primazia da interpretação, Umberto Eco, nestes ensaios escritos entre 1985 e 1990, agora defende os diretos do texto: "dizer que um texto é potencialmente sem fim não significa que todo ato de interpretação...

Contrairement aux idées reçues, l’indonésien est une langue complexe dont la maîtrise de ses règles permet d’exprimer une richesse de nuances et de subtilités. Rassurez-vous, les bases, elles, sont assez simple et permettent de se faire comprendre dans la plupart des situations dans...

This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and its implications within the broader context of translation studies. Featuring contributions from both leading authorities and emerging scholars in the field, the...

Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. In fact, there are those who believe that so much has been published in this field that any further publications are superfluous. But if one views media and translation as anything ranging from film and...

How does India live through the oddity of being both a nation and multilingual? Is multilingualism in India to be understood as a neatly laid set of discrete languages or a criss-crossing of languages that runs through every source language and text? The questions take us to reviewing what is meant...

The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has brought some new understanding, but also renewed outbreaks of violent backlash. In Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address Douglas Robinson seeks to understand the "translational†? or "translingual†?...

This book is about interjections and their transcultural issues. Challenging the marginalization of the past, the ubiquity of interjections and translational practices are presented in their multilingual and cross-cultural aspects. The survey widens the field of inquiry to a multi-genre and context-based...

What Is Cultural Translation? In this book, Sarah Maitland uncovers processes of negotiation and adaptation closely associated with the translation of languages behind the cultural phenomena of everyday life. For globalized societies confronted increasingly with the presence of difference in all its...

This book focuses on the important aspect of translation in the Middle East region, with special emphasis on translation movements and the production of modernity in a historical context defined by European imperialism, enlightenment universalism, and globalization.

Die in diesem Buch versammelten Beiträge gehen der Frage nach einem zuverlässigen Maßstab für die sachgerechte Bewertung übersetzerischer Leistungen nach. Angesichts des sich in neuerer Zeit anbahnenden Wandels der Übersetzungslandschaft und in der sich als heterogene Theorielandschaft darbietenden...