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  • The Fate of Bonté III

    by Alain Poissant ...
    Translated by Rob Twiss ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective, Bonté III’s days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative of her breed. A cow, after all, has no need to try to be a cow. Her life is that of a cow: a predetermined cycle that is easily ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • Translation and Gender

    Translating in the 'Era of Feminism'

    by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    The last thirty years of intellectual and artistic creativity in the 20th century have been marked by gender issues. Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have also been powerfully affected by the focus on gender. As a result of feminist praxis and criticism and the simultaneous emphasis on culture in translation studies, translation has become an important site for ... Read more

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  • Ricochet

    Word Sonnets - Sonnets d'un mot

    by Seymour Mayne ...
    Translated by Sabine Huynh ...
    Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and evocative poems that encapsulate moments of sharp perception while also drawing attention to instants of humour that suddenly appear in daily life.Concise and visual in effect, word sonnets are fourteen line poems, with one word per line. Frequently ... Read more

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  • Borrowed Tongues

    Life Writing, Migration, and Translation

    by Eva C. Karpinski ...
    Series series Life Writing
    Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and ... Read more

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  • Learn Italian - Bilingual Book (Italian - English) The adventures of Julius Caesar Italian - English

    by Bilinguals ...
    Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Italian! Introducing Our New Bilingual Text Series Each Unique Story is Inspired by a Historical Figure & Written in Modern Language for Readers of All Ages to Enjoy!   Looking for a fun way to learn Italian? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Italian for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Corpora in Translator Education

    by Federico Zanettin, Silvia Bernardini, Dominic Stewart ...
    The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent years is translation, both at a descriptive and a practical level. The papers in this volume, which grew out of presentations at the conference Cult2k (Bertinoro, Italy, 2000), the second in the series ... Read more

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  • Ubiquitous Translation

    by Piotr Blumczynski ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    In this book, Piotr Blumczynski explores the central role of translation as a key epistemological concept as well as a hermeneutic, ethical, linguistic and interpersonal practice. His argument is three-fold: (1) that translation provides a basis for genuine, exciting, serious, innovative and meaningful exchange between various areas of the humanities through both a concept (the WHAT) and a method ... Read more

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  • Comparative Law - Engaging Translation

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Astonishment of Words

    An Experiment in the Comparison of Languages

    by Victor Proetz, Charles Nagel ...
    One, two! one, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. Un deux, un deux, par le milieu, Le glaive vorpal fait pat-à-pan! La bête défaite, avec sa tête, Il rentre gallomphant. Eins, Zwei! Eins, Zwei! Und durch und durch Seins vorpals Schwert zerschniferschnück. Da blieb es todt! Er, Kopf in Hand, Geläumfig zog ... Read more

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  • Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings

    A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Edited by Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski, Gianluca Pontrandolfo ...
    Series series Law, Language and Communication
    This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the centrality of phraseological patterns in language and provided researchers with new ... Read more

    $62.99 USD