Translating & Interpreting

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Readers shouldn't need to struggle to understand documents. Whether they are reading a form to request government services, a contract for a mobile phone plan, or a patient information leaflet for prescription medication, people deserve to understand the...

Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings offers a new and original perspective in Translation Studies. The key idea explored in this book is that we communicate not only through our intellect but also through our senses. M Carmen Africa...

This book examines translation policies (TP) for foreign languages in Shanghai, China and aims to propose effective TP for communication between authorities and foreigners. By adopting the 3-level framework of TP (management, practices, and beliefs)...

Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and time periods. This landmark work reflects Baker's influence on translation studies and serves both students and established scholars.

What is the place of human translation in the golden age of artificial intelligence? Human Translators in the Machine Age looks at the millennia of history that have shaped the discipline and its practitioners, and asks what it is that makes translators...

This book introduces an innovative approach to studying translator style through the lens of functional linguistics and corpus stylistics. It examines how translators recreate essential textual functions in target texts, focusing on three key aspects:...

Eva Ng's groundbreaking work delves into post-colonial Hong Kong courtrooms, where jury service is exclusive to well-educated individuals deemed capable of understanding English proceedings. Using authentic audio recordings of two jury trials to assess...

This book proposes a multidimensional model that revisits the epistemology of interpreting studies and the distinctive features of interpreting, and outlines three new research orientations.The first considers interpreting as immediate bilingual...

Campbell, Vidal and their contributors expand the notion of translation beyond linguistic, modal and medial borders to embrace posthumanist perspectives through a holistic experiential epistemology which envisions translation as engaged, situated social...

This book sets out a new framework for a feminist history of translators, drawing on the legacy of Canadian scholar Barbara Godard and her work in establishing the Canadian literary landscape as a means of exploring agency in feminist translation studies...

In Other Words has been the definitive coursebook for students studying translation for more than three decades. Assuming no knowledge of languages other than English, it offers a practical guide based on extensive research in areas as varied as lexis,...

This textbook offers a clear and accessible introduction to educational interpreting, focusing on the unique demands of working with deaf students in public school settings. Most interpreters begin their careers in these environments, often without...

The Routledge Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages for Translation and Interpreting is an essential resource for lecturers and course designers looking to develop a foreign language module within a translation and interpreting program. It is also valuable...

This engaging textbook provides an in-depth examination of tourist discourse and communication and a guide to translating tourism texts. Through analysis of the linguistic, intercultural, and socially inclusive aspects of tourist communication, this...

This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of telecollaboration as a learning mode in translator education, surveying the state-of-the-art, exploring its distinctive challenges and affordances and outlining future directions in both theoretical and...

The book explores translation theory, the translation industry's current state and potential future, and translation research and pedagogy. It delves into disruptive technologies, globalisation, and changing market trends that are shaping translation...

This book provides readers, students and teachers with a clear and concise guide to understanding the concepts of offensive and taboo language and how this type of language can be subtitled into Spanish used in Spain. It combines theoretical and...

This book analyses 1960s-1970s US underground comix, a 'counterculture' art form that satirised mainstream values and taboos. The author observes comix in their multimodal components in the original English-language versions and in their Italian...

This collection of essays by a team of internationally respected researchers at the cutting edge of translation studies was inspired by the idea of "writing forward" as a strategy for theatre translation proposed by David Johnston, the award-winning...

Building on the foundations of Roderick Jones' authoritative and popular text, this brand-new textbook is a comprehensive, up to date and easily accessible introduction to conference interpreting. Elisabet Tiselius combines practical approaches and their...

Robinson and Sun's book goes in search of the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation) from Jacques Derrida to Judith Butler.In his 1684 "Essay on Translated Verse,"...

Developing Professional Expertise in Translation and Interpreting covers what professional expertise means for translators and interpreters in the fast-changing, globalised world and how it can be achieved in practice.The book offers tactics and...

Migration Literature in Translation explores the unique case of Latinx literature translated into Spanish, drawing from Latinx studies, sociology, political philosophy, and cultural studies. The book focuses on works by Helena Maria Viramontes, Achy...

This book represents the cutting-edge ideas on translation studies in recent years from China’s pioneer translator Jun Xu. The book discusses the following points: first of all the theoretical thinking of translation studies, second the translation...

Sun, Liu, Moratto and the team of contributors provide an in-depth exploration of the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the ever-evolving field of translation studies. With key insights to inform future research on this rapidly evolving...

This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation.Language,...

How is music affected by its translation, interpretation and adaptation with, through, and by dance? How might notation of dance and music act as a form of translation? How does music influence the creation of dance? How might dance and music be...

This volume applies digital humanities methodologies to indirect translations in testing the concatenation effect hypothesis.The concatenation effect hypothesis suggests that indirect translations tend to omit or alter identifiably foreign elements and...

Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS), to three translations of a classic Chinese text, Zhao proposes a new model for linking translator positioning with translational norms in the target culture. Zhao...

In this book, Vidal presents a new way of translating indigenous epistemologies. For centuries, the Western world has ordained what knowledge is, what it should be and has also been responsible for transmitting that knowledge. This 'universal' knowledge...

Omid Tofighian has been engaged in collaborative philosophical, artistic and political work with displaced, exiled and incarcerated peoples for twenty-five years. These interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations include co-authoring different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032287409Author Riccardo MorattoImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Historically, the Atlantic Ocean has served to define the relationship between the so-called worlds of the 'Old' and the 'New'. A geographical divide between continents, it is also no less a historical space across which peoples have travelled, sharing...

This book offers a fascinating picture of how state censorship affected children’s literature translation in post-Civil War Spain. Focusing on the Spanish translations of Mark Twain’s children’s classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of...

Translation as a Cognitive Activity provides an overarching account of translation as a cognitive activity, from the pioneering use of think-aloud protocols as a sole technique used to investigate the translation process in the mid-1980s to the latest...

This accessible textbook introduces the core concepts and issues of translation relevant for the training of audiovisual translators.Structured around different characteristics and problem areas in AVT, this text provides the scaffolding for shaping...

What is 'translation'? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion of 'translation' has remained fixedly defined by its interlinguistic element. However, there are many different contexts and...