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Thinking Translation eBook Series

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  • Thinking Spanish Translation

    A Course in Translation Method: Spanish to English

    by Michael Thompson, Penélope Johnson, Louise M. Haywood ...
    Series series Thinking Translation
    Thinking Spanish Translation is a comprehensive Spanish-English translation course for advanced students. This third edition offers learners a more focused and practical approach to developing their translation skills.With clear explanations of key concepts and theoretical principles, the course develops students’ ability to analyze source texts critically, formulate effective translation ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Thinking Spanish Translation

    A Course in Translation Method: Spanish to English

    by Michael Thompson, Louise M. Haywood ...
    Series series Thinking Translation
    The new edition of this comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved.A variety of translation issues are addressed, including:cultural differencesregister and dialectgrammatical differencesgenre.With a shar... ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Teaching for Biliteracy

    by Karen Beeman, M.Ed. ...
    Bridge for cross-language transfer!Beeman and Urow introduce the powerful notion of the Bridge to the biliteracy field in this practical professional development guide for teachers, administrators, and leadership teams. The Bridge is the instructional moment when teachers purposefully bring the two languages together, strategically guiding bilingual learners to:Transfer the academic content they ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Messaging: beyond a lexical approach in ELT

    by George Woolard ...
    In Chapter 1, I outline why the message should be the central focus around which the learning of grammar and vocabulary takes place. I will suggest that this helps the learner to produce more actual language and less possible language.In Chapter 2, I explore the difference between language that is produced consciously and language that is produced spontaneously. I will argue for a massive increase ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Spanish Translation

    by Jack Child ...
    Introduction to Spanish Translation is designed for a third or fourth year college Spanish course. It presents the history, theory and practice of Spanish-to-English translation (with some consideration of English-to-Spanish translation). The very successful first edition of the text evolved from the author's experiences in two decades of teaching translation in the Department of Language and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching

    Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures

    by Melina Porto, Michael Byram ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It presents an alternative approach which is more authentic in its methods, more educational in its ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Building Confianza

    Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication

    by Dalia Magaña ...
    Series series Global Latin/o Americas
    Dalia Magaña’s Building Confianza demonstrates that effective doctor-patient communication in Spanish requires that practitioners not only have knowledge of Spanish but also have transcultural knowledge of Latino/a values and language use. Using linguistic analysis to study real-time doctor-patient interactions, Magaña probes the role of interpersonal language and transcultural competency in ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Screen Translation

    Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 9/2, 2003)

    Edited by Yves Gambier ...
    There are three fundamental issues in the field of screen translation, namely, the relationship between verbal output and pictures and soundtrack, between a foreign language/culture and the target language/culture, and finally between the spoken code and the written one. All three issues are raised and discussed by contributors to this special issue of The Translator.The topics covered include the ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Semantic Distinctions in Spanish Word Order

    by Eduardo Ho-Fernández ...
    Semantic Distinctions in Spanish Word Order offers a unique analysis of Spanish word order and the intricate relationship between grammatical form and communicative function, challenging traditional syntactic constructs and the familiar Subject, Verb, and Object–based classifications that derive from them.Revealing underlying regularities in the Spanish language, this study argues that word order ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Exploring the Spanish Language

    An introduction to its structures and varieties

    by Christopher J. Pountain ...
    Exploring the Spanish Language is a practical introduction to the structures and varieties of Spanish.This new edition provides updated samples that introduce the varieties of modern Spanish, its main registers and styles, including a greater percentage from Latin America.Written specifically with English-speaking learners of Spanish in mind, readers will find a good deal of practical help in ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • How To Learn Advanced Spanish

    by ROSARIO MUÑOZ ARCELLA ...
    Learning Spanish at the intermediate level is a turning point. You've already learned how to form sentences, ask questions, and survive everyday conversations. Now, it's time to go beyond survival—it's time to express yourself clearly, confidently, and naturally.At this stage, you may find yourself in a unique position: you understand a lot, but still hesitate to speak; you know many words, but ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colombian Varieties of Spanish

    Edited by Richard J. File-Muriel, Rafael Orozco ...
    Series Book 50 - Lingüística Iberoamericana
    The collection of fascinating articles assembled in this volume is a refreshing attempt to give renewed impetus to the study of a speech variety—Colombian Spanish—that in years past had been one of the most intensely studied in all of Latin America. Towards the end of the 20th century, that successful tradition, it seemed, had become a weighty legacy from which most Colombianistas seemed unable to ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus