Translating & Interpreting

In this wide-ranging historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of...

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683597704Author Joseph R DodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

This Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some...

In recent decades the explosive growth of globalization and regional integration has fuelled parallel growth in multilingual conferences. Although conference interpreting has come of age as a profession, interpreter training programs have had varied...

This book presents a systematic literary comparison of the retranslations by adopting a mixed-method and bottom-up (inductive) approach by developing an empirical corpus approach. This corpus is specifically tailored to identify and study linguistic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802882189Author Thomas RenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 750Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

This volume is a textbook for aspiring translators of Japanese into English, as well as a reference work for professional Japanese–English translators and for translator educators. Underpinned by sound theoretical principles, it provides a solid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666765540Author Ray LubeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm)...

This title introduces core concepts in teaching methods and approaches. This textbook shows you how to link research to practice in TESOL methodology. Covering core topics from vocabulary and grammar to teaching, writing, speaking and listening, it...

This collection of essays brings together a decade of writings on translation by leading international translation studies expert, Susan Bassnett. The essays cover a range of topics and will be useful to anyone with an interest in how different cultures...

Foreword INDIES 2023 Finalist for Religion "Tackles scripture from a broad-thinking, feminist perspective. . . . Smart and impressive."--Publishers Weekly One reason the Bible has endured for millennia is its ability to reach our common humanness...

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that translation plays in the complex and necessarily incomplete process of decolonisation. In a world where translation has historically been...

Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students and professional translators learning to revise the work of others or edit original writing, and those wishing to improve their self-revision ability...

This is a comprehensive overview of the field of Community Interpreting. It explores the relationship between research, training and practice, reviewing the main theoretical concepts, describing the main issues surrounding the practice and the training...

A vibrant history of the myriad English translations of the Bible and what they meant to their translators, readers, and times The greatest of the earlier translators of the Bible into English, William Tyndale, was martyred in 1536 for his work...

A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita DeanOn Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399514330Author El Mustapha LahlaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translation of children's books has increased at a rapid pace. Research across a number of disciplines has contributed to a developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and...

Affect shapes every act of translation and interpreting.Affect in Translation and Interpreting explores how emotions, relationships, and human connection guide the work of translators and interpreters around the world. Through rich case studies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337350387Author Debbita Ai Lin TanFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher IGI Global

This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth study of literary translation in Macao, examining how translation mediates and reconstructs the cultural identities of Macao and the Macanese. Employing innovative interdisciplinary methodologies, it combines...

Scholarly writings in translation have contributed enormously to intellectual life throughout the world but there has been little written on the practice of academic translation. Leading translation scholar, translator and translator educator Brian James...

Bridging Texts: Translation and Literary Studies in Dialogue is an insightful examination of the relationship between translation and literary studies. It discusses the linkage and mutual development of these two domains, commonly seen as separate. This...

This open access book introduces a pioneering methodology in corpus translation studies by integrating generative artificial intelligence to assist in text annotation, alignment, and interpretative analysis, with an illustrative application. It focuses...

My Deepest Desire is Tamiki Hara's final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grippingly moving meditation on the desire to live a different, fuller life, free from pain, isolation, and the intrusively haunting...

This open-access volume explores translations of catechisms produced during the Early Modern period (1450-1800), a type of text now increasingly recognized as pivotal for understanding cultural translation. Bringing together case studies from across...

The global/local distinction has changed significantly, and the topic has been heatedly debated in literary and cultural as well as translation scholarship. In this age of globalisation, the traditional definition of translation has been altered. In the...

This is the first book to explore the history of self-translation in Chinese. It reveals how self-translation was widespread among literary authors during one of the most fertile periods of translation in human history, an era that marks both the dawn of...

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This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a 'gendered' way of understanding translation by convincingly constructing a link between translation studies and the interdisciplinary field of women's studies...

Essays exploring the effect of time on translation studies.This volume brings together 12 essays on the relation between temporality and translation, engaging in both theoretical reflection and consideration of concrete case studies. The essays can be...

The present volume is a collection of selected papers of the international conference on Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, organised by the Research Centre for Translation (RCT), The Chinese University of...

Contesting Translation, a celebratory edited volume, honours Professor Mona Baker, one of the most influential scholars in translation, interpreting, and intercultural studies. The 11 original chapters were especially commissioned from scholars who have...

This book presents a series of studies conducted on an AD module that has been integrated into interpreting training at universities in Hong Kong. It represents the outcome of the synergies and many years of collaboration among regional scholars began in...

This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing the development of four key concepts (filial piety, face, fengshui, and guanxi) in English and Chinese. It explores how specific ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917130097Author J.S. MackleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Isengrin PublishingPublisher Isengrin Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423938Author Souleymane Bachir DiagneFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

The digital era is characterised by technological advances that increase the speed and breadth of knowledge turnover within the economy and society. This book examines the impact of these technological advances on translation and interpreting and how new...