Translating & Interpreting

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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)...

This is the fifth revised edition of the best-selling A Practical Guide for Translators. It looks at the profession of translator on the basis of developments over the last few years and encourages both practitioners and buyers of translation services to...

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...

Communicating Across Cultures: A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions is a manual which addresses the complex task of interpreting and translating through reflection and practice. The book originated from...

Translation is intercultural communication par excellence. It has the power to form and/or deform cultures through sustained manipulation of the translation process and all that goes into it: from texts chosen for translation to the words used. But...

Author Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural...

This volume provides a timely reflection of this growing interdisciplinary field of translation, interpreting and political discourse. It includes very recent work carried out by researchers from a range of countries. The chapters illustrate new trends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116820Author Karolina Puchala-LadzinskaFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams)...

Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation's Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by...

A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts...

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...

A practical guide to translation as a profession, this book provides everything translators need to know, from digital equipment to translation techniques, dictionaries in over seventy languages, and sources of translation work. It is the premier...

Contains a collection of translations from Old Icelandic. Includes four sagas and five shorter narratives, most of which appear for the first time in English. Contents:The Saga of Clever Ref; The Story of Thorstein of the East Fjords; The Saga of Valla...

The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander,...

Much of Canadian cultural life is sustained and enriched by translation. Translation Effects moves beyond restrictive notions of official translation in Canada, analyzing its activities and effects on the streets, in movie theatres, on stages, in...

Translation's Forgotten History investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503568478Author Margaret ConnollyFormat HardbackPage Count 355Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

It has been widely recognised that an in-depth textual analysis of a source text is relevant for translation. This book discusses the role of Discourse Analysis for translation and translator training. One particular model of discourse analysis is...

Translation Studies is currently one of the fastest growing interdisciplinary subjects in the world. Constructing Cultures brings together for the first time the work of the two translator/scholars who are regarded as founders of this major field of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556197079Author Yves GambierFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint John Benjamins Publishing CompanyPublisher John Benjamins Publishing...

This textbook was conceived and written under the authors' conviction that the feature of Greek grammar that lends itself most readily to understanding and discussion is syntax, especially the syntax of the verb and that such understanding has been...

With civic engagement in mind, service learning (SL) is becoming increasingly important across academic disciplines. Here, Sherry Shaw provides much-needed practical guidance on creating course syllabi, establishing deaf community partnerships, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563682971Author Cynthia B. RoyFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

This collection consists of ten chapters contributed by a broad array of international scholars addressing diverse topics while using a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, questionnaires, observation, and diary accounts...

The globalisation of communication networks has increased the domains of translation and is challenging ever more the translator's role. This volume is a collection of contributions from two different conferences (Misano, 1997 and Berlin, 1998)...

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the...

During the last thirty years, the field of translation has exploded with multiple new theories. Contemporary Translation Theories examines five of new approaches - the translation workshop, the science of translation, translation studies, polysystem...

Written by translation practitioners, teachers and researchers, this edited volume is a much-needed contribution to the under-researched area of community translation. Its chapters outline the specific nature and challenges of community translation (e.g...