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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

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation

    In Praise of a Plural World

    by Linda Jaivin ...
    Series Book 52 - Quarterly Essay
    Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Epictetus

    A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

    by A. A. Long ...
    The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A. A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient philosophy, gives the definitive presentation of the thought of Epictetus for a broad readership. Long's fresh and vivid translations of a selection of the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • 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

    $15.19 CAD

  • Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation

    by Phyllis ZATLIN ...

    $19.99 CAD

  • Translation, Linguistics, Culture

    by Nigel ARMSTRONG ...

    $19.99 CAD

  • Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature

    by Helen Frank ...
    Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature offers a detailed and innovative model of analysis for examining the complexities of translating children's literature and sheds light on the interpretive choices at work in moving texts from one culture to another. The core of the study addresses the issue of how images of a nation, locale or country are constructed in translated children's ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • 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

    $89.31 CAD

  • Teaching Translation

    Programs, courses, pedagogies

    Edited by LAWRENCE VENUTI ...
    Over the past half century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field around the world, and in recent years the number of academic institutions offering instruction in translation has risen along with an increased demand for translators, interpreters and translator trainers. Teaching Translation isthe most comprehensive and theoretically informed overview of current ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • 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

    $22.39 CAD

  • Feminist Translation Studies

    Local and Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Olga Castro, Emek Ergun ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute to ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Motherless Tongues

    The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation

    by Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial settings, he demonstrates translation's agency in the making and understanding of events. These include nationalist efforts to vernacularize politics, U.S. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD