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  • The Astonishment of Words

    An Experiment in the Comparison of Languages

    by Victor Proetz, Charles Nagel ...
    One, two! one, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. Un deux, un deux, par le milieu, Le glaive vorpal fait pat-à-pan! La bête défaite, avec sa tête, Il rentre gallomphant. Eins, Zwei! Eins, Zwei! Und durch und durch Seins vorpals Schwert zerschniferschnück. Da blieb es todt! Er, Kopf in Hand, Geläumfig zog ... Read more

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  • New Trends in Audiovisual Translation

    by Jorge DIAZ CINTAS ...
    New Trends in Audiovisual Translation is an innovative and interdisciplinary collection of articles written by leading experts in the emerging field of audiovisual translation (AVT). In a highly accessible and engaging way, it introduces readers to some of the main linguistic and cultural challenges that translators encounter when translating films and other audiovisual productions. The chapters ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Traductio

    Essays on Punning and Translation

    Edited by Dirk Delabastita ...
    Nothing 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 adaptation, or can cast such harsh light on our illusion of complete semantic stability. In the pun the whole language system may resonate, and so may literary traditions and ideological discourses. It ... Read more

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  • Can Theory Help Translators?

    A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface

    by Andrew Chesterman, Emma Wagner ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    Can 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 translator's identity, the history of the translator's role, the translator's visibility, translation types and strategies, translation quality, ethics and translation aids. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Representing Others

    Translation, Ethnography and Museum

    by Kate Sturge ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    Cultural 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 cross-cultural comparison. Questions of intelligibility and representation are central to both translation studies and ethnographic writing - as are the dilemmas of cultural distance or proximity, exoticism ... Read more

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  • Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

    Edited by Sandra Bermann, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining national and cultural boundaries, "translation" is now emerging as a reformulated subject of lively, ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Translating Feminism in China

    Gender, Sexuality and Censorship

    by Zhongli Yu ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book explores translation of feminism in China through examining several Chinese translations of two typical feminist works: The Second Sex (TSS, Beauvoir 1949/1952) and The Vagina Monologues (TVM, Ensler 1998). TSS exposes the cultural construction of woman while TVM reveals the pervasiveness of sexual oppression toward women. The female body and female sexuality (including lesbian sexuality ... Read more

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  • Literary Translation & Foreign Rights

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    by S. C. Scott ...
    Series Book 1 - Author Publishing Guides
    Ready, Set, Translate!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Are You An Author? Unlock Your 10-step Plan to Multiple Streams of Income from Foreign Translations. It's Easy and Profitable!The Indie Publishing Gold Rush is not over…In fact, it’s just beginning in non-English language markets. Find new readers, new markets, and make more money by translating your books into other languages. It’s easier than you think! Whether ... ... Read more

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  • Translation and Empire

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    Arising 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. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of postcolonial theory, examines current theories of the power differentials that control what gets translated and how, and traces the historical ... Read more

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  • Audiovisual Translation – Research and Use

    Edited by Mikolaj Deckert ...
    Series Book 53 - Lodz Studies in Language
    This book explores two strands of Audiovisual Translation referred to as «research» and «use». As their points of convergence as well as divergence are brought to light, the contributors show that the two tend to overlap and cross-pollinate. The volume’s inquiries of linguistic, cultural, sociological, computational, educational and historical nature give a comprehensive up-to-date account of AVT ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Translation

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Susan Bassnett, Susan Bassnett (S Editor), Harish Trivedi ...
    Series series Translation Studies
    This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors (from Britain, the US, Brazil, India and Canada) to examine crucial interconnections between postcolonial theory and translation studies. Examining the relationships between language and power across cultural boundaries, this collection reveals the vital role of translation in redefining the meanings of culture and ethnic identity. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Misunderstanding in Social Life

    Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk

    by Juliane House, Gabriele Kasper, Steven Ross ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participants are members of an ... Read more

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