Translating & Interpreting

This book provides a critical introduction and translation of fifty Santiniketan (Abode of Peace) essays written by Rabindranath Tagore between 1908 and 1914. It provides key insights into Tagore's fundamental meditations on life, nature, religion,...

The Beginning Translator’s Workbook or the ABCs of French to English Translation combines methodology and practice for use in translation courses for beginners with a proficiency level in French ranging from intermediate to advanced, under the guidance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462703414Author Gisele Dionisio da SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Machine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes, approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for...

Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice. This book explores the "unbearable whiteness of translation" in the West that...

This book deals with one of the most prominent and promising developments in modern Translation Studies--the sociology of translation. Tyulenev develops an original way of applying Luhmann's Social Systems Theory to translation, viewing translation as a...

Metatranslation presents a selection of 14 key essays by leading theorist, Theo Hermans, covering a span of almost 40 years. The essays trace Hermans' work and demonstrate how translation studies has evolved from the 1980s into the much more diverse and...

This volume offers a detailed analysis of selected cases in the reception, translation and artistic reinterpretation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) around the world.The book traces the many different ways in which Calvino's modern classic has...

Cheung, Liu, Moratto, and their contributors examine how corpora can be effectively harnessed to benefit interpreting practice and research in East Asian settings.In comparison to the achievements made in the field of corpus- based translation studies,...

Considering children’s literature as a powerful repository for creating and proliferating cultural and national identities, this monograph is the first academic study of children’s literature in translation from the Western Balkans. Marija Todorova looks...

This edited volume reflects on the development of corpus translation studies as a rapidly growing, diversified field of translation studies. It examines the evolving identity of corpus translation from a marginal research tactic focusing on generating...

Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However, translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for...

This edited volume sets out to explore interdisciplinarity issues and strategies in Public Service Interpreting (PSI), focusing on theoretical issues, global practices, and education and training. Unlike other types of interpreting, PSI touches on the...

This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949.Little scholarly...

This innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer.To gain a fresh perspective on the work of...

The first book to provide an accessible introduction to translation for the non-specialist reader, covering what translation is rather than a course on how to do it.Designed specifically for elective courses on translation, typically open to students in...

The most comprehensive up-to-date student-friendly guide to translation tools and technologies.Translation Tools and Technologies are an essential component of any translator training programme, following European Masters in Translation framework...

A Translational Sociology provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the key role of translation in society. There is a growing recognition of translation's intervention in the intellectual history of sociology, in the international reception of...

The first book to provide a clear, accessible, user-friendly introduction to the area of ethics in translation and interpreting *ethics is widely taught within translation and interpreting courses, being a key competence for the European Masters of...

Community translation or Public Service translation is on a global scale often unregulated and dependent on individual awareness, good will and even charity work. The social impact and mission of community translation, the key role of the translator's...

This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans's scholarly engagement with translation spans...

The teaching of texts in translation has become an increasingly common practice, but so too has the teaching of texts from languages and cultures with which the instructor may have little or no familiarity. The authors in this volume present a variety of...

The Fourth Volume in the Interpreter Education Series From the moment the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI) was established in 2005, an overwhelming wave of requests from around the world arrived seeking information and resources...

Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944838249Author Len RobersonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The first book to address translation processes from the perspective of a number of so-far unexplored sub-fields of Psychology, providing the whole picture in terms of how psychology can shed light on translator behaviour. Translation and psychology is a...

A unique and balanced combination of translation and interpreting studies, edited and written by leading voices in the fields In Introduction to Translation and Interpreting Studies, accomplished scholars Aline Ferreira and John W. Schwieter have...

*The first book to provide a roadmap for interpreter training for conflict and post-conflict scenarios *meets a growing need for specialist interpreter skills in this area of increasing importance *unlike other books, this book focuses on training needs...

In this original and innovative work, Yu boldly tackles the increasingly influential collaborative translation phenomenon, with special reference to China. She employs the unique perspective of an ethnographer to explore how citizen translators work...

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the processes, principles and constraints of project management in the translation industry. It offers readers clear insights into modern-day project management practices specific to translation services...

This book focuses on the broad concept of 'controversy' and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial texts in East Asia. The research methodology is exemplified through a case study in the form of the author's...

The Translation Movement of the Abbasid Period, which lasted for almost three hundred years, was a unique event in world history. During this period, much of the intellectual tradition of the Greeks, Persians, and Indians was translated into Arabic-a...

This collection provides a snapshot of cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of cognitive approaches to multilingual mediated communication. The chapters cover important trends in current work, including: the increasing interaction between...

Nowadays, discourse analysis deals with not only texts but also paratexts and images; so do translation and interpreting studies. Therefore, the concept of multimodality has become an increasingly important topic in the subject areas of linguistics,...

Great poets like Shelley and Goethe have made the claim that translating poems is impossible. And yet, poems are translated; not only that, but the metrical systems of English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Czech have been shaped by the...

Pragmatics, often defined as the study of language use and language users, sets out to explain what people wish to achieve and how they go about achieving it in using language. Such a study is clearly of direct relevance to an understanding of...

Digital Research Methods for Translation Studies introduces digital humanities methods and tools to translation studies.This accessible book covers computer-assisted approaches to data collection, data analysis, and data visualization and presentation,...

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book raises new questions and provides different perspectives on the roles, responsibilities, ethics and protection of interpreters in war while investigating the substance and agents of Japanese war crimes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854481538Author John ChadwickFormat HardbackPage Count 632Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyWeight(grams) 1193gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423639312Author Mike EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc