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Translation Practices Explained eBook Series

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  • Consecutive Interpreting

    A Short Course

    by Andrew Gillies ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course provides a step-by-step guide to consecutive interpreting. This user-friendly coursebook tackles key skills such as presentation, analysis, note-taking and reformulation, as well as advanced market-related skills such as preparation for assignments, protocol and practical tips for working interpreters. Each chapter provides examples of the skill, as well as ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting

    A Short Course

    by Andrew Gillies ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course is the essential step-by-step guide to the skill of note-taking. The system, made up of a range of tried and tested techniques, is simple to learn, consistent and efficient. Each chapter presents a technique, with examples, tasks and exercises. This second edition has been extensively revised throughout, including:an updated chapter on ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Translation as Discovery and Other essays on Indian Literature in English Translation

    by Sujit Mukherjee ...
    The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any developed literary culture, and argues that translation into English has made it possible for an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Translation in Modern Japan

    Edited by Indra Levy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism with cutting-edge English-language scholarship.Collectively, the contributors to this book address ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Will not forget both laughter and tears

    by Tomoko Mitani ...
    Translated by Yukari F. Meldrum ...
    Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island nation have been widely disseminated in North America, most of us cannot imagine what everyday life is like in Japan. Tomoko Mitani's work addresses this gap with honest responses to the male-dominated society of Japan in a down-to-earth style that looks ... Read more

    $14.39 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

  • Research Methods in Interpreting

    A Practical Resource

    by Sandra Hale, Dr Jemina Napier ...
    Series series Research Methods in Linguistics
    This is the first book to deliver a comprehensive guide to research methods in all types of interpreting. It brings together the expertise of two world-recognized scholars in spoken and signed language interpreting to cover the full scope of the discipline.It features questions, prompts and exercises throughout to highlight key concepts, provoke thought and encourage reader interaction. It deals ... Read more

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  • Critical Translation Studies

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu, with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in society. The central claim in CTS is that translators help condition what TS scholars take to be the ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Geochemistry of Epigenesis

    by A. I. Perel man ...
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    In its classical sense "epigenesis" refers to all geological processes originating at or near the surface of the earth. It thus embraces all those phenomena which we associate with the land scape; Perel'man has already written extensively on this subject. The landscape, in the physical sense, is controlled by the interac tion of exogenic and endogenic agencies-on the one hand, the atmo sphere, the ... Read more

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