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Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities by Jose Santaemilia 9781138150638
RRP: £135.00£117.28Gendered and sexual identities are unstable constructions which reveal a great deal about the ideologies and power relatinships affecting individuals and societies. The interaction between gender/sex studies and translation studies points to a... -
The Bible at Cultural Crossroads: From Translation to Communication by Harriet Hill 9781138150508
RRP: £135.00£117.28Bible translators have focused their efforts on preparing a text that is clear, natural and accurate, with the expectation that audiences will understand the message if it is in their language. Field research among the Adioukrou of Cote d'Ivoire shows... -
Translation: The Interpretive Model by Marianne Lederer 9781138150294
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book, the English version of La traduction aujourd'hui (Hachette 1994), describes the interpretive theory of translation developed at the Paris Ecole Superieure d'Interpretes et de Traducteurs (ESIT) over the last 35 years. The theory... -
English Spelling by Edward Carney 9781138150225
RRP: £110.00£95.11English Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based. This Language Workbook: * Examines how speech-sounds map onto each other * Explores the extent to which words sound identical or look identical * Analyzes... -
Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature by Helen Frank 9781138150003
RRP: £89.99£78.09Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature offers a detailed and innovative model of analysis for examining the complexities of translating children's literature and sheds light on the interpretive choices at work in moving texts from one... -
Gender and Language Theory and Practice by Lia Litosseliti 9781138149403
RRP: £135.00£117.28The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining the relevant frameworks and drawing on a range of activities/examples of how gender is constructed in discourse. The book is divided into three parts. Part I... -
Traductio: Essays on Punning and Translation by Dirk Delabastita 9781138149342
RRP: £135.00£117.28Nothing like wordplay can make difference between languages look so uncompromising, can give such a sharp edge to the dilemma between forms and effects, can so blur the line between translation and adaptation, or can cast such harsh light on our illusion... -
Modes of Censorship: National Contexts and Diverse Media by Francesca Billiani 9781138149236
RRP: £135.00£117.68Modes of Censorship and Translation articulates a variety of scholarly and disciplinary perspectives and offers the reader access to the widening cultural debate on translation and censorship, including cross-national forms of cultural fertilization. It... -
Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents by Ben Rampton 9781138148949
RRP: £135.00£117.68Volume 5 This is a new and enlarged edition of Ben Rampton's ground-breaking study of sociolinguistic processes in urban youth culture. It focuses on language crossing - the use of Panjabi by adolescents of African-Caribbean and Anglo descent, the use... -
Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation by Maria Tymoczko 9781138148864
RRP: £135.00£117.68This ground-breaking analysis of the cultural trajectory of England's first colony constitutes a major contribution to postcolonial studies, offering a template relevant to most cultures emerging from colonialism. At the same time, these Irish case... -
Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles by Paul Foulkes 9781138148444
RRP: £135.00£117.68Accents and dialects are constantly undergoing small variations over time, but evidence shows that change may have become increasingly rapid in the past few decades. 'Urban Voices' presents one of the few recent surveys of this phonological variation and... -
Essentials of English Grammar: 25th impression, 1987 by Otto Jespersen 9781138148635
RRP: £135.00£117.68First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138148635Author Otto JespersenFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Text and Context: Essays on Translation and Interpreting in Honour of Ian Mason by Mona Baker 9781138147942
RRP: £135.00£117.68Ian Mason has been a towering presence in the now flourishing discipline of translation studies since its inception, and has produced some of the most influential and detailed analyses of translated text and interpreted interaction to date. The... -
General Linguistics by R.H. Robins 9781138158627
RRP: £135.00£117.68The fourth edition of General Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistics. The book considers: - semantics and pragmatics - dialect and style - phonetics and phonology - morphology and syntax, with reference both to... -
The Conference of the Tongues by Theo Hermans 9781138147553
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Conference of the Tongues offers a series of startling reflections on fundamental questions of translation. It throws new light on familiar problems and opens up some radically different avenues of thought. It engages with value conflicts in... -
The Italian Language Today by Anna-Laura Lepschy 9781138146976
RRP: £135.00£117.28First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138146976Author Anna-Laura LepschyFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Reading Joyce by David Pierce 9781138146563
RRP: £135.00£117.68`Is there one who understands me?' So wrote James Joyce towards the end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas into Ulysses that it would `keep the professors... -
Translation and Empire by Douglas Robinson 9781138146587
RRP: £135.00£117.28Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of... -
The Language of Sport by Adrian Beard 9781138146341
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Language of Sport: * looks in detail at the language of sports-talk including commentary and 'new sportswriting' * explores linguistic representation of related issues such as gender, national/regional identity * examines the way sport sells itself... -
Semantics by Howard Gregory 9781138146389
RRP: £110.00£95.11Semantics is an accessible and practical introduction to formal semantics, the study of linguistic meaning, for students new to the subject. Semantics: * shows how meanings are built up and interrelated * presupposes very little prior knowledge of... -
Discourse and Creativity by Rodney Jones 9781138146006
RRP: £135.00£117.28Discourse and Creativity examines the way different approaches to discourse analysis conceptualize the notion of creativity and address it analytically. It includes examples of studies of creativity from a variety of traditions and examines the following... -
Word Meaning by Richard Hudson 9781138145887
RRP: £110.00£95.11In Word Meaning, Richard Hudson introduces readers to the techniques of lexical semantic analysis. Word Meaning: * is based on a problem-solving approach to language * introduces readers to the technical terminology and basic principles associated with... -
Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk by Juliane House 9781138145238
RRP: £29.99£26.64Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power... -
Translation into the Second Language by Stuart Campbell 9781138145146
RRP: £135.00£117.28The dynamics of immigration, international commerce and the postcolonial world make it inevitable that much translation is done into a second language, despite the prevailing wisdom that translators should only work into their mother tongue. This book is... -
Language, Literature and the Learner: Creative Classroom Practice by Ronald Carter 9781138145078
RRP: £135.00£117.28Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language. The seminars explicitly addressed the interface between language and literature... -
The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play by Delia Chiaro 9781138144842
RRP: £135.00£117.28In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally recorded conversations, she examines the structure of... -
Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan: Native Voices Foreign Bodies by Beverley Curran 9781138144828
RRP: £135.00£117.28What motivates a Japanese translator and theatre company to translate and perform a play about racial discrimination in the American South? What happens to a 'gay' play when it is staged in a country where the performance of gender is a theatrical... -
Sociolinguistics and Social Theory by Nikolas Coupland 9781138144644
RRP: £135.00£117.68The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many... -
English in Modern Times by Joan C. Beal 9781138144064
RRP: £135.00£117.28English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics of 'modern' English evolved. This is the first undergraduate... -
The Language of Drama by Keith Sanger 9781138138315
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Language of Drama * applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays, ranging from Shakespeare to Stoppard, Coronation Street to The Archers * is written in a clear, user-friendly style by a practising... -
Translating for the European Union Institutions by Emma Wagner 9781138137257
RRP: £135.00£117.28The institutions of the European Union employ hundreds of translators. Why? What do they do? What sort of translation problems do they have to tackle? Has the language policy of the European Union been affected by the recent inclusion of new Member... -
The Language of Humour by Alison Ross 9781138136533
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Language of Humour: * examines the importance of the social context for humour * explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy and stand-up comedy * includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive... -
The Bilingual Text: History and Theory of Literary Self-Translation by Jan Walsh Hokenson 9781138136519
RRP: £135.00£117.28Bilingual texts have been left outside the mainstream of both translation theory and literary history. Yet the tradition of the bilingual writer, moving between different sign systems and audiences to create a text in two languages, is a rich and... -
Translation in Systems: Descriptive and System-oriented Approaches Explained by Theo Hermans 9781138135895
RRP: £135.00£117.28The notion of systems has helped revolutionize translation studies since the 1970s. As a key part of many descriptive approaches, it has broken with the prescriptive focus on what translation should be, encouraging researchers to ask what translation... -
Language and Technology by Angela Goddard 9781138135789
RRP: £135.00£117.28The INTERTEXT series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A core introduction to language analysis (third edition, 2007) is the foundation text which is complemented by a range of... -
Interpreting and Translating in Public Service Settings by Christine Wilson 9781138134874
RRP: £135.00£117.28Translation, interpreting and other forms of communication support within public sector settings constitute a field which deals, quite literally, with matters of life and death. Overshadowed for many years by interpreting and translating in other... -
Describing Discourse: A Practical Guide to Discourse Analysis by Nicola Woods 9781138134607
RRP: £135.00£117.28For anyone approaching Discourse Analysis for the first time, theory means little when it is not related to actual knowledge and experience of language in use. Describing Discourse takes the unique approach of introducing discourse studies through the... -
Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language by Andrew D. Cohen 9781138134577
RRP: £135.00£117.68Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strategies, Andrew D. Cohen disentangles a morass of... -
Reflexivization: A Study in Universal Syntax by Leonard M. Faltz 9781138213241
RRP: £36.99£32.53This title, first published in 1985, is the result of a cross-linguistic, comparative study of reflexives, with a major role played by syntactic conditions on reflexivization rules. The basic definitions outlined in the book lead to a discussion of... -
Savoir Faire Plus: Le Francais a l'Universite by Geraldine Enjelvin 9781138133723
RRP: £135.00£117.28Written by an experienced tutor, Savoir-Faire Plus is specifically designed to meet the requirements of today's generation of language undergraduates. Focusing on the life of an Anglophone first year undergraduate studying French in the UK and sharing a...