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Translation Practices Explained eBook Series

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  • Scientific and Technical Translation Explained

    A Nuts and Bolts Guide for Beginners

    by Jody Byrne ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    From microbiology to nuclear physics and chemistry to software engineering, scientific and technical translation is a complex activity that involves communicating specialized information on a variety of subjects across multiple languages. It requires expert linguistic knowledge and writing skills, combined with the ability to research and understand complex concepts and present them to a range of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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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

  • 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

  • The Ultimate Buyers’ Guide to Translation

    Translation process, vendors, QA, DTP, tools, tips and more

    by Oleg Semerikov, Translators Family ...
    Is your business thinking about translation? https://youtu.be/yFPHW6vS8vQ Don’t do anything until you’ve read this book. The world of translation services is vast, complex and busy – and although many providers are reputable professionals, it’s still easy for an unsuspecting business to be taken for a ride. Some translation providers will promise the world on a shoestring but fail to deliver the ... Read more

    $2.96 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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  • 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

  • Translation and the Manipulation of Difference

    Arabic Literature in Nineteenth-Century England

    by Tarek Shamma ...
    Translation and the Manipulation of Difference explores the question of difference in translation and offers an extended critique of the advocacy of foreignizing translation as a practice that does not minimize the alterity of the foreign text, and could therefore serve as an antidote to ethnocentrism and cultural insularity.Shamma examines the reception of Arabic literature - especially the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Triadic Exchanges

    Studies in Dialogue Interpreting

    Edited by Ian Mason ...
    Dialogue interpreting is a generic term covering a diverse range of fields of interpreting which have in common the basic feature of face-to-face interaction between three parties: the interpreter and (at least) two other speakers. The interaction consists of spontaneous dialogue, involving relatively short turns at talk, in two languages. It is usually goal-directed in the sense that there is ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Negotiating Elite Talk

    Language, Race, Class and Identity Among African American High Schoolers

    by John Taggart Clark ...
    Len Gregory is a law school student. As part of his elite law school's community outreach programme, he finds himself in a local high school several times a week passing on his own legal knowledge to the students in a course he teaches entitled Street Law. This book shows that passing on legal knowledge is not the only thing Len is doing in Street Law. He is also trying to get his students to talk ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Metaphor and Entertainment

    A Corpus-Based Approach to Language in Chinese Online News

    by C. Han ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibrant and controversial news genres in contemporary China. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Interpreter-mediated Police Interviews

    A Discourse-Pragmatic Approach

    by I. Nakane ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book shows how participation of interpreters as mediators changes the dynamics of police interviews, particularly with regard to power struggles and competing versions of events. The analysis of interaction offers insights into language in the legal process. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Grammatical Collocations of Verbs and Prepositions

    by Marianna Hudcovičová ...
    This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions «of» and «to». It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. The author creates English–Czech verbal prepositional counterparts and groups on the grounds of the similar semantic, syntactic features. She identifies ... Read more

    $36.39 USD