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Translation Practices Explained eBook Series

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  • User-Centered Translation

    by Tytti Suojanen, Kaisa Koskinen, Tiina Tuominen ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Translators want to take their readers into account, but traditional translation theory does not offer much advice on how to do that. User-Centered Translation (UCT) offers practical tools and methods to help empower translators to act for their readers. This book will help readers to:Create mental models such as personasTest translations with usability testing methodsCarry out reception ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Translation in Global News

    by Esperanca Bielsa, Susan Bassnett ...
    The mass media are of paramount importance in the formulation and transmission of messages about key developments of global significance, such as terrorism and the war in Iraq, yet the key mediating role of translation in the reception of speeches and addresses of figures like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein has remained largely invisible.Incorporating the results of extensive fieldwork in key ... Read more

    $69.99 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

  • Scientific and Technical Translation

    by Maeve Olohan ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Guides
    Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing translations, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms.Scientific and Technical Translation focuses on texts ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • 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

  • Translation Criticism- Potentials and Limitations

    Categories and Criteria for Translation Quality Assessment

    by Katharina Reiss ...
    Translated by Eroll F. Rhodes ...
    Katharina Reiss's now classic contribution to Translation Studies, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Übersetzungskritik: Kategorien und Kriteren für eine sachgerechte Beurteilung von Übersetzungen, first appeared in 1971. This is the first English translation of this major work, allowing students and practitioners of translation in the English-speaking world to make more extensive use of Reiss's ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Translating Others (Volume 1)

    Edited by Theo Hermans ...
    Both in the sheer breadth and in the detail of their coverage the essays in these two volumes challenge hegemonic thinking on the subject of translation. Engaging throughout with issues of representation in a postmodern and postcolonial world, Translating Others investigates the complex processes of projection, recognition, displacement and 'othering' effected not only by translation practices but ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Translation after Wittgenstein

    by Philip Wilson ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    In this eminently readable study, Philip Wilson explores the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein and shows how a reading of this philosophy can enable the translation theorist and the practising translator to reflect upon and improve the phenomenon of translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key figure in twentieth-century philosophy, remains peripheral to the field of translation studies and Wilson ... Read more

    $64.99 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 101

    Starting Out As A Translator

    by Petro Dudi ...
    This book is for anyone contemplating on becoming a translator, or for existing translators that need a concise crash course on their profession.It explores the realm of translation, the benefits and working conditions, the types of translation work and tools available. It gets down to details regarding the tools a translator uses every day, providing information not only from the translator's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technology Implementation in Second Language Teaching and Translation Studies

    New Tools, New Approaches

    Edited by María Luisa Carrió-Pastor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This monograph mainly focuses on the idea that language teaching in higher education involves making use of new approaches and technology. It identifies the key determinants of the materials needed to improve language teaching on the basis of the actual experimental research included in the respective contributions. Thanks to its unique perspective, the book offers a distinctive approach to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures

    Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts

    Edited by Simona Bertacco ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD