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  • Languages and Publics

    The Making of Authority

    by Susan Gal, Kathryn Woolard ...
    The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Map

    A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies

    by Jenny Williams, Andrew Chesterman ...
    The Map is a practical guidebook introducing the basics of research in translation studies for students doing their first major research project in the field. Depending on where they are studying, this may be at advanced undergraduate (BA) or at postgraduate (MA/PHD) level.The book consists of ten chapters. Chapter 1 offers an overview of 12 research areas in translation studies in order to help ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

    Edited by Carmen Millán, Francesca Bartrina ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies.Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including:the current status of the field and its interdisciplinary naturethe problematic definition of the object of studythe ... Read more

    $94.99 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

  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

    by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz ...
    A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

    A Sociopolitical Analysis

    by Kayoko Takeda ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    In order to ensure its absolute authority, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948), the Japanese counterpart of the Nuremberg Trial, adopted a three-tier structure for its interpreting: Japanese nationals interpreted the proceedings, second-generation Japanese-Americans monitored the interpreting, and Caucasian U.S. military officers arbitrated the disputes. The first extensive study on the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by J. House ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process. ... Read more

    $89.09 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

    $84.99 USD

  • Representing Others

    Translation, Ethnography and Museum

    by Kate Sturge ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used 'translation' as a metaphor to describe ethnography's processes of interpretation and cross-cultural comparison. Questions of intelligibility and representation are central to both translation studies and ethnographic writing - as are the dilemmas of cultural distance or proximity, exoticism ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Translation, Travel, Migration

    v. 12/2: Special Issue of the Translator

    Edited by Loredana Polezzi ...
    The connection between travel and translation is often evoked in contemporary critical theory, both practices seen as metaphors of mobility and flux linked to globalized 'post-modern' society. Travel is a multiple activity, encompassing temporary and voluntary displacement, repeated movement, exile, economic migration, diaspora. Places of origin are often plural and unstable, in spite of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Community Translation

    by Mustapha Taibi, Uldis Ozolins ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    Investigating an important field within translation studies, Community Translation addresses the specific context, characteristics and needs of translation in and for communities. Traditional classifications in the fields of discourse and genre are of limited use to the field of translation studies, as they overlook the social functions of translation. Instead, this book argues for a ... Read more

    $44.59 USD