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Translation Practices Explained eBook Series

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  • An Introduction to Audio Description

    A practical guide

    by Louise Fryer ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the skills needed for the effective translation of images into words for the blind and partially-sighted.A wide range of examples – from film to multimedia events and touch tours in theatre, along with comments ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Talk Dirty Spanish

    Beyond Mierda: The curses, slang, and street lingo you need to Know when you speak espanol

    by Alexis Munier, Laura Martinez ...
    ¿Qué pasa, gringo?Whether at a cantina in Mexico or a discothèque in Spain, you better know how to shoot the s#*!. Luckily for you, Talk Dirty: Spanish dishes all the dirty sayings in a variety of dialects. Packed with plenty of four-letter words, habañero-hot insults, and wicked expressions, this book will have you speaking like a true hombre. The Spanish-to-English translations will help you ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Selected Poetry ~ English, Urdu, Persian & Punjabi

    by Tahir Khan Arzani ...
    This collection of contemporary poetry is written in four languages: English, Urdu, Persian & Punjabi, with a stunning presentation of background images that compliment the poems. He writes the traditional Ghazal along with experimenting with other contemporary styles of poetic form. All poetry and photo paintings are created by Tahir Khan Arzani. Includes also a thoughtful introduction composed ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Corpus-Based Translation Studies

    Research and Applications

    Edited by Alet Kruger, Kim Wallmach, Professor Jeremy Munday ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    This is a collection of leading research within corpus-based translation studies (CTS). CTS is now recognized as a major paradigm that has transformed analysis within the discipline of translation studies. It can be defined as the use of corpus linguistic technologies to inform and elucidate the translation process, something that is increasingly accessible through advances in computer technology ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Sleeps Standing

    A Story of the Battle of Orakau

    by Witi Ihimaera, Hemi Kelly ...
    Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Maori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted in vast tracts of land being confiscated for European settlement. Instead of following the usual ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Translation

    by Susan Bassnett ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    In a time when millions travel around the planet; some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile, translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.Leading translation theorist, Susan Bassnett traces the history of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Catholics and Millennialism

    A Theo-Linguistic Guide

    by Warren A. Kappeler III ...
    Series Book 350 - American University Studies
    Philosophers of religion such as Mark Kingwell regard millenarian dreams as humanity’s most powerful hopes for transformation, transcendence, apocalypse, and utopia. In Catholics and Millennialism: A Theo-Linguistic Guide, Warren A. Kappeler III explores the insights of critical discourse theory to examine the impact of millenarian groups upon Catholics. He examines theo-linguistic practices among ... Read more

    $113.49 USD

  • Dialogue Interpreting

    by Ian Mason ...
    Dialogue interpreting includes what is variously referred to in English as Community, Public Service, Liaison, Ad Hoc or Bilateral Interpreting - the defining characteristic being interpreter-mediated communication in spontaneous face-to-face interaction. Included under this heading are all kinds of professional encounters: police, immigration and welfare services interviews, doctor-patient ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust

    Translation, Style and the Reader

    by Dr Jean Boase-Beier ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    Taking a cognitive approach, this book asks what poetry, and in particular Holocaust poetry, does to the reader - and to what extent the translation of this poetry can have the same effects. It is informed by current theoretical discussion and features many practical examples.Holocaust poetry differs from other genres of writing about the Holocaust in that it is not so much concerned to document ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies

    by Maeve Olohan ...
    The use of corpora in translation studies, both as a tool for translators and as a way of analyzing the process of translation, is growing. This book provides a much-needed assessment of how the analysis of corpus data can make a contribution to the study of translation.Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies:traces the development of corpus methods within translation studiesdefines the types ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Conversations with Interpreter Educators

    Exploring Best Practices

    by Christine Monikowski ...
    Series Book 9 - Interpreter Education
    Sign language interpreter education is a relatively young field that is moving toward more theory-based and research-oriented approaches. The concept of sharing research, which is strongly encouraged in this academic community, inspired Christine Monikowski to develop a volume that collects and distills the best teaching practices of leading academics in the interpreting field.In Conversations ... Read more

    $21.59 USD