Translating & Interpreting

This collection critically examines the practical impacts of machine translation (MT) through the lens of an ethics of care. It addresses the ideological issues in MT development linked to social hierarchies and explores the transformative potential of...

This book critically examines the ways in which translation studies can offer a conceptual framework for understanding and researching international affairs, drawing on examples from China's Belt and Road Initiative.The volume encourages new...

Experience is a multilayered, cumulative affair with transformation at its core. Its study, a necessary first step for its translation, requires an exploration of embodiment, the senses, and cultural and social environments.The second of two volumes,...

How a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poet_x000D_ _x000D_ So Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright, whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped...

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...

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...

This book delves into the dynamic world of authentic project-based learning (PjBL) in translation and interpreting (T&I) education.With translation and interpreting programs on the rise, especially in China, the book merges academic rigor with market...

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...

Teaching Interpreting and Live Subtitling: Contexts, Modes and Technologies provides a cross-section of multi-national perspectives on teaching various dimensions of interpreting and live subtitling, both within dedicated programmes and as part of...

Yang explores the use of crowdsourcing in translation within the Chinese context, focusing on Yeeyan - the largest online translation community in China. As one of the world's largest markets for language content consumption, China experiences...

By integrating different research angles and methods of philosophy of law, sociology of law, applied linguistics, and legal translation, this book presents a groundbreaking approach to the non-standardization phenomenon in Chinese legislative language,...

This book examines the translations carried out by Italian novelist Beppe Fenoglio, one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century. It stems from the acknowledgement that Beppe Fenoglio’s translations have not been examined in the...

This interdisciplinary edited collection establishes a new dialogue between translation, conflict and memory studies focusing on fictional texts, reports from war zones and audiovisual representations of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship...

This book explores how endangered local interpreters in Afghanistan were seen through Western eyes in the period from 2014, when the West drew down the bulk of its military forces, to the summer of 2021, when NATO forces withdrew completely. The author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556712982Author Ernst R WendlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

This is a book in pursuit of translators' philosophies or personal theories of translation. From Vladimir Nabokov and William Carlos Williams to Ursula Le Guin and Langston Hughes, Translators on Translation coaxes each subject's reflections on their...

Interpreting The Amistad Trials traces the signal importance of interpreters and translators in the famous 19th-century Amistad case and discusses how race, ethnicity, slavery, and colonialism shaped this story. From the recruitment process to the...

Community, or Public Service, Translation contributes to a more equitable and sustainable community by empowering minority groups such as migrants and refugees and is a growing area for both teaching and research within Translation studies.Written by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639875399Author Bryan TempletonFormat HardbackPage Count 257Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Meaning-Based Translation Workbook is designed for training beginning translators and organized chapter by chapter as drill material for the textbookMeaning-Based Translation. The textbook emphasizes the importance of a translation being accurate, clear...

This new translation of Beowulf aims at rendering it closely from Anglo-Saxon (Old English) verse while maintaining its salient poetic qualities and literary appeal. Martin Puhvel's translation uses vocabulary that makes the poem readable to all,...

This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their corresponding accessibility features.The volume demonstrates how audiovisual translation (AVT) and media...

This book draws on an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the impact of codes of ethics as prescribed in translator organizations, proposing alternative ethical pathways grounded in self-care ethics to enhance translators' symbolic recognition and...

This book introduces the theory and practice of literary translation through the lens of original short stories translated from Arabic into English. Readers are provided with both the source text and the target language translation, alongside critical...

In response to the growing importance and spread of patient-centred care, the need to empower patients and the trend towards democratising specialised knowledge in health care, this book puts patients centre stage and provides concepts, methods and...

This collection explores the translation of dialogue from the adaptations of literary classics across audiovisual media, engaging with the question of what makes a classic through an audiovisual translation lens. The volume seeks to fill a gap on the...

Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.Robinson's engagement with translational aspects of Finnegans Wake provides...

Shedding light on the nuances of cross-cultural communication, this edited volume offers insights into how Chinese Malaysians, a major ethnic group, navigate the complexities of translating across diverse languages.This book unveils the unique landscape...

This user-friendly textbook offers comprehensive insights into all facets of audiovisual translation and media localisation.Serving as a comprehensive guide spanning seven chapters, it begins by introducing audiovisual translation (AVT). It goes on to...

In response to the growing importance and spread of patient-centred care, the need to empower patients and the trend towards democratising specialised knowledge in health care, this book puts patients centre stage and provides concepts, methods and...

Serving as a pioneering work, this volume offers a systematic and comprehensive exploration of the integration between Audio Description (AD) and interpreting studies.It not only sheds new light on the emerging field of AD research, but also enriches the...

The field of translation and interpreting (T&I) training has been undergoing rapid and far-reaching transformation in recent years, as a result of technological advances and sweeping shifts in the international environment within which T&I seeks to...

Translation as Home is a collection of autobiographical essays by Ilan Stavans that eloquently and unequivocally make the case that translation is not only a career, but a way of life. Born in Mexico City, Ilan Stavans is an essayist, anthologist,...

Conference Interpreting: A Student's Practice Book brings together a comprehensive compilation of tried and tested practical exercises which hone the sub-skills that make up successful conference interpreting. Unique in its exclusively practical focus,...

Language and law are closely linked, and language is fundamental to the application of the law. Legal, criminalistic, translational and psychological aspects of communication come together in interpreted questioning (hearings, interrogations, interviews)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639875382Author Bryan TempletonFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596951853Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Federal Street PressPublisher Federal Street PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

In Courtroom Interpreting, Marianne Mason offers a new perspective in the study of courtroom interpreting through the exploration of cognitive and linguistic barriers that court interpreters face everyday and ultimately result in an interpreter's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635497212Author Edward HaighesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams)...

Meaning-Based Translation is designed for training beginning translators and organized chapter by chapter as drill material for the textbook Meaning-Based Translation. The textbook emphasizes the importance of a translation being accurate, clear and...