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  • Will not forget both laughter and tears

    de Tomoko Mitani ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Dreaming in Chinese

    Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language

    de Deborah Fallows ...
    Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and ... Leer más

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  • Learning Sign Language

    Tips for learning American Sign Language and other signed languages

    de J. David Peach ...
    Learning Sign Language is a great resource of tips and tricks for those taking classes or who are interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL). Instead of an instructional book on using sign language, this is a manual that helps the student know how to learn signs.If the interest of the student is to learn a signed language other than ASL this book is still a tremendous resource. Many ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Power Portuguese

    de Denise Coronha Lima ...
    Power Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese in 5 Steps is a self-study guide and an open door for those interested in learning Portuguese. It includes a strategic collection of words, everyday expressions and the fundamentals of grammar, carefully integrated for you to begin to communicate in basic and correct Brazilian Portuguese. Simple formulas and straightforward grammatical explanations mean that ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Eco-Translation

    Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene

    de Michael Cronin ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the perspective of the Anthropocene, or the effect of humans on the global environment, has profound implications for the way translation is considered in the past, present and future. Starting with a deep history of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Hermes Complex

    Philosophical Reflections on Translation

    de Charles Le Blanc ...
    Traducido por Barbara Folkart ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he transmitted. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Daisaku Ikeda, Language and Education

    Edición de Jason Goulah ...
    Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) is an international Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, prolific author, and the founder of the secular Soka kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools, women’s college and universities in seven countries across Asia and the Americas. He has emerged as an important educational philosopher and practitioner whose perspectives on dialogue, value-creation (soka), global ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Languages at Play in the Theatre

    de Marvin Carlson ...
    Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary theatre is in part a reflection of a more globalized culture, but it also calls attention to how the mixing of ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Translation and Empire

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Literary Translation in Russia

    A Cultural History

    de Maurice Friedberg ...
    In this rich historical study, Maurice Friedberg recounts the impact of translation on the Russian literary process. In tracing the explosion of literary translation in nineteenth-century Russia, Friedberg determines that it introduced new issues of cultural, aesthetic, and political values.Beginning with Pushkin in the early nineteenth century, Friedberg traces the history of translation ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Comparative Law - Engaging Translation

    Edición de Simone Glanert ...
    In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law has assumed a significance which it would be hard to overstate. The following situations are typical. A French law school is teaching French law in the English language to foreign exchange students. Some US legal scholars are exploring the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD