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  • 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

  • Training for Doctoral Research

    by J IAN Mason ...
    Following the rapid expansion of translation studies as an emergent (inter-)discipline over recent decades, demand for doctoral research opportunities is now growing fast in many countries. At the same time, doctoral training packages of a generic nature have been elaborated and refined at many universities, drawing on long traditions of doctoral research in established disciplines. A degree of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Discourse and the Translator

    by B. Hatim, Ian Mason ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    Discourse and the Translator both incorporates and moves beyond previous studies of translation. Its logical and informative approach to the problems of translation ensures that it will be essential for all those who work with languages 'in contact'. Incorporating research in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, pragmatics and semiotics, the authors analyse the process and product of translation ... Read more

    $68.99 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

  • The Translator As Communicator

    by Basil Hatim, Ian Mason ...
    By taking an integrated approach to the practice of translation, Hatim and Mason provide a refreshingly unprejudiced contribution to translation theory. They argue that the division of the subject into literary and non-literary, technical and non-technical and so on, is unhelpful and misleading. Instead of dwelling on these differentials, the authors focus on what common ground exists between ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Research Methodologies in Translation Studies

    by Gabriela Saldanha, Sharon O'Brien ...
    As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to traditional methods in other fields of investigation. This book addresses the needs of such scholars – whether they are students doing research at ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Bible Translation Basics

    Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way

    by Harriet Hill, Ernst-August Gutt, Christoph Unger, Margaret Hill, Rick Floyd ...
    Series series Textbook
    Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speaker’s intended meaning. Hearers use other inputs as well—things they already know, information from the speech environment—as they search to understand ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Kafka Translated

    How Translators have Shaped our Reading of Kafka

    by Dr. Michelle Woods ...
    Kafka Translated is the first book to look at the issue of translation and Kafka's work. What effect do the translations have on how we read Kafka? Are our interpretations of Kafka influenced by the translators' interpretations? In what ways has Kafka been 'translated' into Anglo-American culture by popular culture and by academics?Michelle Woods investigates issues central to the burgeoning field ... Read more

    $32.39 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

  • The Semiotics of Subtitling

    by Zoe De Linde, Neil Kay ...
    Subtitling serves two purposes: to translate the dialogue of foreign language films for secondary audiences (interlingual) and to transform the soundtrack of television programmes into written captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers (intralingual). While both practices have strong linguistic roots, often being compared to text translation and editing, this book reveals the complex influences ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Translation, Globalisation and Localisation

    by Wang NING and Sun YIFENG ...
    The global/local distinction has changed significantly, and the topic has been heatedly debated in literary and cultural as well as translation scholarship. In this age of globalisation, the traditional definition of translation has been altered. In the present anthology, translation is viewed as a cultural and political practice, and accordingly translation studies is based on a heightened ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies

    Translation in Society

    by Sergey Tyulenev ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book deals with one of the most prominent and promising developments in modern Translation Studies--the sociology of translation. Tyulenev develops an original way of applying Luhmann's Social Systems Theory to translation, viewing translation as a social-systemic boundary phenomenon. The book consists of two major parts: in the first, translation is described as a system in its own right ... Read more

    $61.99 USD