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Translation Practices Explained eBook Series

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  • Introduction to Court Interpreting

    by Holly Mikkelson ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    An Introduction to Court Interpreting has been carefully designed to be comprehensive, accessible and globally applicable. Starting with the history of the profession and covering the key topics from the role of the interpreter in the judiciary setting to ethical principles and techniques of interpreting, this text has been thoroughly revised. The new material covers: remote interpreting and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Translation Changes Everything

    Theory and Practice

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000.The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the impact of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Children's Literature in Translation

    Challenges and Strategies

    Edited by Jan Van Coillie, Walter P. Verschueren ...
    Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recognized as literary achievements that from a translator's point of view are no less demanding than 'serious' (adult) literature. This volume attempts to explore the various challenges posed by the translation of children's literature and at the same time ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Bicycle Eater

    by Larry Tremblay ...
    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    Singularly obsessed with his all-consuming passion for Anna, the object of his adolescent desire, the photographer Christophe Langelier is beside himself. Ten years ago, he failed the test of eating a bicycle for her as proof of his love and devotion. Since then, he has created a photographic catalogue of his only model, complete with a glossary, an “Anna-lexique,” in which the darkness and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures

    by Juliane House ...
    In this interdisciplinary book, Juliane House breaks new ground by situating translation within Applied Linguistics. In thirteen chapters, she examines translation as a means of communication across different languages and cultures, provides a critical overview of different approaches to translation, of the link between culture and translation, and between views of context and text in translation ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Media and Translation

    An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Dr Dror Abend-David ...
    Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. In fact, there are those who believe that so much has been published in this field that any further publications are superfluous. But if one views media and translation as anything ranging from film and television drama to news-casting, commercials, video games, web-pages and electronic street signs, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Human Encounters

    Introduction to Intercultural Communication

    by Øyvind Dahl ...
    This book gives a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication in the era of globalization. The reader is introduced to essential concepts in the field, different theories and methods of analysing communication, the importance of verbal and nonverbal languages for bringing about mutual understanding and, finally, the ethical challenges that arise.The volume also has a practical aspect ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Search It, Find It: The Translator's Minimalist Guide to Online Search

    by Carlos Djomo ...
    THE INTERNET IS AN OCEAN - HERE'S YOUR COMPASSEveryone - including you - hate to spend hours searching online for important stuff with less satisfying results. So, why continue the same way? Fortunately, there are little-known strategies you could leverage to up your online searching game. Imagine how you would feel if you could find accurate terminology, specific documentation, high-paying ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

    by Sara Laviosa, Adriana Pagano, Hannu Kemppanen, Meng Ji ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents the state-of-art research in ETS by illustrating useful corpus methodologies in the study of important translational genres such as political texts, literature and media translations. Empirical Translation Studies (ETS) represents one of the most exciting fields of research. It gives emphasis and priority to the exploration and identification of new textual and linguistic ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • New Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Translation Studies

    Edited by Mirosław Pawlak, Jakub Bielak ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, historical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics ... Read more

    $89.09 USD