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Comics in Translation Federico Zanettin 9781905763078
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Comics are a pervasive art form and an intrinsic part of the cultural fabric of most countries. And yet, relatively little has been written on the translation of comics. Comics in Translation... -
Dislocations/ Relocations: Narratives of Displacement Mike Baynham 9781900650793
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The centrality of narrative analysis in the investigation of social processes and practices has become an established fact in the human sciences. The focus on narrative and displacement in this... -
Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature by Helen Frank
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature offers a detailed and innovative model of analysis for examining the complexities of translating children's literature and sheds light on the... -
Translating India by Rita Kothari 9781900650625
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The cultural universe of urban, English-speaking middle class in India shows signs of growing inclusiveness as far as English is concerned. This phenomenon manifests itself in increasing forms of... -
Translation and Language Peter Fawcett 9781900650076
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Translation Studies and linguistics have been going through a love -hate relationship since the 1950s. This book assesses both sides of the relationship, tracing the very real contributions that... -
Revising and Editing for Translators Brian Mossop (York University, Canada) 9781909485013
Booksplease Price: £40.38Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students learning to edit texts written by others, and professional translators wishing to improve their... -
Bibliography of Translation Studies: 2001 by Lynne Bowker
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.69A volume of selected, annotated references arranged under specific headings to provide a non-partisan guide to teachers involved in designing courses in translation and/or interpreting.Book... -
Bibliography of Translation Studies: 2000 by Lynne Bowker
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89A volume of selected, annotated references arranged under specific headings to provide a non-partisan guide to teachers involved in designing courses in translation and/or interpreting.About the... -
Ethics and the Curriculum: Critical perspectives Mona Baker (University of Manchester, UK) 9781905763269
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04First Published in 2011. This special issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer provides a forum for reflection on questions of ethics in the context of translator and interpreter education... -
Non-Professional Translating and Interpreting by Sebnem Susam-Sarajeva
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This special issue of The Translator explores the field with a view to learning from the individuals and networks who take on such 'non-professional' translation and interpreting activities. It... -
The Practices of Literary Translation: Constraints and Creativity Jean Boase-Beier 9781900650199
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than... -
Can Theory Help Translators?: A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface Andrew Chesterman 9781900650496
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Can Theory Help Translators? is a dialogue between a theoretical scholar and a professional translator, about the usefulness (if any) of translation theory. The authors argue about the problem of the... -
Translation and Empire Douglas Robinson 9781900650083
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire... -
Legal Translation Explained Enrique Alcaraz 9781900650465
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Focusing on the problems of translating English legal language, Alcaraz and Hughes offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most demanding and vital areas of contemporary translation practice... -
Translating for the European Union Institutions Emma Wagner 9781905763924
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The institutions of the European Union employ hundreds of translators. Why? What do they do? What sort of translation problems do they have to tackle? Has the language policy of the European Union... -
Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation by Maria Tymoczko 9781900650168
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.14This ground-breaking analysis of the cultural trajectory of England's first colony constitutes a major contribution to postcolonial studies, offering a template relevant to most cultures emerging... -
The Conference of the Tongues Theo Hermans (University College London, UK) 9781905763054
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Conference of the Tongues offers a series of startling reflections on fundamental questions of translation. It throws new light on familiar problems and opens up some radically different avenues... -
Electronic Tools for Translators by Frank Austermuhl
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Electronic Tools for Translators offers complete explanations of a wide range of software products, information resources and online services that translators now need to understand and use... -
Traductio: Essays on Punning and Translation by Dirk Delabastita
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.38Nothing like wordplay can make difference between languages look so uncompromising, can give such a sharp edge to the dilemma between forms and effects, can so blur the line between translation and... -
Enlarging Translation, Empowering Translators by Maria Tymoczko
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.09Beginning with the paradox that characterizes the history of translation studies in the last half century - that more and more parameters of translation have been defined, but less and less closure... -
Moving Target: Theatre Translation and Cultural Relocation Carole-Ann Upton 9781900650274
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Moving Target offers a rigorous exploration of the practice of translating for the theatre. The twelve essays in the volume span a range of work from Eastern and Western Europe, Canada and the United... -
A Critique of Politeness Theory: Volume 1 Gino Eelen 9781900650403
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99As a sociolinguistic phenomenon that connects language and its users to the social world that surrounds them, politeness can provide insights into the very structure of social reality and the process... -
Translational Action and Intercultural Communication Kristin Buhrig 9781905763092
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Translation and interpreting studies and intercultural communication have so far largely been treated as separate disciplines. Translational Action and Intercultural Communication offers an overview... -
Translation and Literary Studies: Homage to Marilyn Gaddis Rose by Marella Feltrin-Morris
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99By nature a transdisciplinary area of inquiry, translation lends itself to being investigated at its intersection with other fields of study. Translation and Literary Studies seeks to highlight the... -
Decolonizing Translation: Francophone African Novels in English Translation Kathryn Batchelor 9781905763177
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The linguistically innovative aspect of Francophone African literature has been recognized and studied from a variety of angles over recent decades, yet little attention has been paid to what happens... -
Translation and Violent Conflict by Moira Inghilleri 9781905763238
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04First Published in 2010. Translators and interpreters are frequently found at the centre of attempts to wage war or negotiate peace between opposing factions. Translation and interpreting also serve... -
English as a Lingua Franca: Implications for Translator and Interpreter Education by Stefania Taviano 9781905763931
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89The study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has grown considerably in the last decades, and a wide number of issues related to this field have been addressed through a variety of lenses. These... -
Text and Context: Essays on Translation and Interpreting in Honour of Ian Mason by Mona Baker
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Ian Mason has been a towering presence in the now flourishing discipline of translation studies since its inception, and has produced some of the most influential and detailed analyses of translated... -
Representing Others: Translation, Ethnography and Museum Kate Sturge 9781905763016
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used 'translation' as a metaphor to describe ethnography's processes of interpretation and... -
Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities Jose Santaemilia 9781900650687
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Gendered and sexual identities are unstable constructions which reveal a great deal about the ideologies and power relatinships affecting individuals and societies. The interaction between gender/sex... -
Translation and Gender: Translating in the 'Era of Feminism' Luise Von Flotow 9781900650052
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The last thirty years of intellectual and artistic creativity in the 20th century have been marked by gender issues. Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have also been... -
Translated People,Translated Texts by Tina Steiner
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Translated People, Translated Texts examines contemporary migration narratives by four African writers who live in the diaspora and write in English: Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub from the Sudan,... -
Dialogue Interpreting by Ian Mason
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Dialogue interpreting includes what is variously referred to in English as Community, Public Service, Liaison, Ad Hoc or Bilateral Interpreting - the defining characteristic being... -
Deconstruction and Translation Kathleen Davis 9781900650281
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Deconstruction and Translation explains ways in which many practical and theoretical problems of translation can be rethought in the light of insights from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. If... -
Corpora in Translator Education by Federico Zanettin
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent years... -
Screen Translation: Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 9/2, 2003) by Yves Gambier
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24There are three fundamental issues in the field of screen translation, namely, the relationship between verbal output and pictures and soundtrack, between a foreign language/culture and the target... -
Negotiating the Frontier: Translators and Intercultures in Hispanic History Anthony Pym 9781900650250
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Why would a Latin Qur'an be addressed to readers who knew no Latin? What happens when translators work on paper rather than parchment? Why would a Jewish rabbi translate a bible for Christians? How... -
Thinking Through Translation with Metaphors James St.Andre 9781905763221
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.14Thinking through Translation with Metaphors explores a wide range of metaphorical figures used to describe the translation process, from Aristotle to the present.Most practitioners and theorists of... -
Translating Humour by Jeroen Vandaele 9781900650588
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24It is all too often assumed that humour is the very effect of a text. But humour is not a perlocutionary effect in its own right, nor is laughter. The humour of a text may be as general a... -
Translation Criticism- Potentials and Limitations: Categories and Criteria for Translation Quality Assessment Katharina Reiss 9781900650267
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Katharina Reiss's now classic contribution to Translation Studies, Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der UEbersetzungskritik: Kategorien und Kriteren fur eine sachgerechte Beurteilung von UEbersetzungen,...