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  • The Fate of Bonté III

    by Alain Poissant ...
    Translated by Rob Twiss ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective, Bonté III’s days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative of her breed. A cow, after all, has no need to try to be a cow. Her life is that of a cow: a predetermined cycle that is easily ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • Translation and Gender

    Translating in the 'Era of Feminism'

    by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    The 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 powerfully affected by the focus on gender. As a result of feminist praxis and criticism and the simultaneous emphasis on culture in translation studies, translation has become an important site for ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ricochet

    Word Sonnets - Sonnets d'un mot

    by Seymour Mayne ...
    Translated by Sabine Huynh ...
    Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and evocative poems that encapsulate moments of sharp perception while also drawing attention to instants of humour that suddenly appear in daily life.Concise and visual in effect, word sonnets are fourteen line poems, with one word per line. Frequently ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Borrowed Tongues

    Life Writing, Migration, and Translation

    by Eva C. Karpinski ...
    Series series Life Writing
    Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Translation Theory and Development Studies

    A Complexity Theory Approach

    by Kobus Marais ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development. The second aim flows from the first section’s argument that societies emerge out of, amongst others, complex translational interactions amongst individuals. It will do so by conceptualising translation from a complexity and emergence point of view and relating this view on emergent ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Corpora in Translator Education

    by Federico Zanettin, Silvia Bernardini, Dominic Stewart ...
    The 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 is translation, both at a descriptive and a practical level. The papers in this volume, which grew out of presentations at the conference Cult2k (Bertinoro, Italy, 2000), the second in the series ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ubiquitous Translation

    by Piotr Blumczynski ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    In this book, Piotr Blumczynski explores the central role of translation as a key epistemological concept as well as a hermeneutic, ethical, linguistic and interpersonal practice. His argument is three-fold: (1) that translation provides a basis for genuine, exciting, serious, innovative and meaningful exchange between various areas of the humanities through both a concept (the WHAT) and a method ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Languages and Publics

    The Making of Authority

    by Susan Gal, Kathryn Woolard ...
    The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the ... Read more

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  • Modes of Censorship

    National Contexts and Diverse Media

    Edited by Francesca Billiani ...
    Modes of Censorship and Translation articulates a variety of scholarly and disciplinary perspectives and offers the reader access to the widening cultural debate on translation and censorship, including cross-national forms of cultural fertilization. It is a study of censorship and its patterns of operation across a range of disciplinary settings, from media to cultural and literary studies, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Translation and Migration

    by Moira Inghilleri ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Translation and Migration examines the ways in which the presence or absence of translation in situations of migratory movement has currently and historically shaped social, cultural and economic relations between groups and individuals. Acts of cultural and linguistic translation are discussed through a rich variety of illustrative literary, ethnographic, visual and historical materials, also ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Translating Holocaust Lives

    Edited by Dr Jean Boase-Beier, Dr Peter Davies, Dr Andrea Hammel, Dr Marion Winters ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible – if not, perhaps, comprehensible – to other communities.Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored by Translation ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Human Issues in Translation Technology

    Edited by Dorothy Kenny ...
    Series series The IATIS Yearbook
    Translation technologies are moulded by and impact upon humans in all sorts of ways. This state-of-the-art volume looks at translation technologies from the point of view of the human users – as trainee, professional or volunteer translators, or as end users of translations produced by machines.Covering technologies from machine translation to online collaborative platforms, and practices from ... Read more

    $61.99 USD