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  • Risk Management in Translation

    by Anthony Pym ...
    Series series Elements in Translation and Interpreting
    Once fidelity and equivalence are abandoned, how can successful translation be understood? Risk management offers an alternative way of looking at the work of translators and their social function. It posits that the greater the cultural differences, the greater the risks of failed communication. What can be done to manage those risks? Drawing on the ways translators and interpreters handle ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • How to Augment Language Skills

    Generative AI and Machine Translation in Language Learning and Translator Training

    by Anthony Pym, Yu Hao ...
    How to Augment Language Skills outlines ways in which translators and language providers can expand their skillset and how translation technologies can be integrated into language learning and translator training.This book explains the basics of generative AI, machine translation, and translation memory suites, placing them in a historical context and assessing their fundamental impacts on ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Exploring Translation Theories

    by Anthony Pym ...
    Exploring Translation Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of the core contemporary paradigms of Western translation theory.This engaging overview covers the key theories of equivalence, solution types, purpose, scientific approaches, uncertainty, automation, and cultural translation. Fully revised, this third edition adds coverage of Russian and Ukrainian theories, examples from Chinese, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Legal Translation Explained

    by Enrique Alcaraz, Brian Hughes ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Focusing 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. Individual chapters deal with legal English as a linguistic system, special concepts in the translation of legal English, the genres of legal translation, and offer a series of practical problems together ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • What is Translation History?

    A Trust-Based Approach

    by Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the authors develop an approach to translation that speaks to historians of literature, language, culture, society, science, translation and interpreting. By examining theories of trust from sociological, philosophical, and historical studies, and with reference to ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Translation Solutions for Many Languages

    Histories of a flawed dream

    by Professor Anthony Pym ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    Many “translation solutions” (often called “procedures,” “techniques,” or “strategies”) have been proposed over the past 50 years or so in French, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Czech, and Slovak. This book analyzes, criticizes and compares them, proposing a new list of solutions that can be used in training translators to work between many languages.The ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Method in Translation History

    by Anthony Pym ...
    Starting from the critical notion that we should be asking questions of contemporary importance - and that 'importance' itself must be defined - Anthony Pym sets about undoing many of the currently dominant models of translation history, positing, among much else, that the object of this history should be translators as people, that researchers are subjectively involved in their object, that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Negotiating the Frontier

    Translators and Intercultures in Hispanic History

    by Anthony Pym ...
    Why 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 can a theorist successfully criticize a version of Aristotle without knowing any Greek? Why were children used to bring down an Amerindian civilization? Why does the statue of Columbus in Barcelona ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Return to Ethics

    Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 7/2, 2001)

    Edited by Anthony Pym ...
    If civilizations are to cooperate as well as clash, our mediators must solve problems using serious thought about relations between Self and Other.Translation Studies has thus returned to questions of ethics. But this is no return to any prescriptive linguistics of equivalence. As the articles in this volume show, ethics is now a broadly contextual question, dependent on practice in specific ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Theories, Methods and Issues

    by Luis Perez-Gonzalez ...
    Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within translation studies.This book addresses the need for more robust theoretical frameworks to investigate emerging text- types, address new methodological challenges (including the compilation, analysis and reproduction of audiovisual data), and understand new discourse communities bound together by the production and consumption of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Language and Linguistics

    by John Lyons ...
    This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    by Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD