Translation and interpretation Books

Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS), to three translations of a classic Chinese text, Zhao proposes a new model for linking translator positioning with translational norms in the target culture. Zhao...

This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address the neutrality or ideological biases of interpreters, but rather to discuss the underlying issue of the intervention of interpreters into...

The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies brings together clear, detailed essays from leading international scholars on major areas in Translation Studies today.This accessible and authoritative guide offers fresh perspectives on linguistics,...

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or 'voice,' of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and film. Existing models of stylistic analysis,...

This accessible book provides a foundational understanding of the science of deception and lie detection. Focusing on core issues for the field, it discusses classic and current psychological research into lying as well as theoretical approaches to...

Technology has revolutionized the field of translation, bringing drastic changes to the way translation is studied and done. To an average user, technology is simply about clicking buttons and storing data. What we need to do is to look beyond a system's...

Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented technological, cultural, and political framings. This new order conspires to undermine the interpretive practices of open-ended...

Innovative and interdisciplinary approach to transfer The concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up...

This book "The 3000 Most Commonly Used Words in English" is a complete collection to help Uzbek language students and teachers understand and teach basic English vocabulary. This compilation identifies and presents the most frequently used words in the...

Der hier vorgelegte Band 5 der Gesammelten Werke Roman Ingardens (1893-1970) trägt dreizehn kleinere Schriften zusammen, die der namhafte polnische Husserl-Schüler in verschiedenen Perioden seines wissenschaftlichen Lebens zur Phänomenologie seines...

Roman Ingardens unprätentiöse, analytisch orientierte Phänomenologie wurde vor 1945 relativ wenig beachtet. Heute jedoch zählt Ingarden zu den großen Denkern und Phänomenologen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Den 1967 in Oslo gehaltenen Vorlesungen kommt in...

Der hier vorgelegte Band 3 der Gesammelten Werke Roman Ingardens folgt den 1998 (als Band 5) edierten "Schriften zur Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls" und bringt die Herausgabe von Ingardens kleineren interpretativ-kritischen Arbeiten über die...

Obwohl Lessing aus den wichtigsten europäauml;ischen Sprachen üuuml;bersetzt und das Übersetzungsproblem in Deutschland in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts erstmals Gegenstand der Literaturkritik wird, ist Lessings Rolle darin...

Digital transformation and demographic change are profoundly affecting the contexts in which the language industry operates, the resources it deploys and the roles and skillsets of those it employs. Driven by evolving digital resources and socio-ethical...

Having trouble understanding or conversing with native Portuguese speakers? If so, try this book!The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with conversational dialogues in Portuguese that use 100 percent real Portuguese. As language learners...

Teaching & Researching Translation provides an authoritative and critical account of the main ideas and concepts, competing issues, and solved and unsolved questions involved in Translation Studies. This book provides an up-to-date, accessible...

In recent years in the "West," scholars have attempted to unravel old constructs of interpretation and understanding, using the discipline of hermeneutics, or the scientific study of textual interpretation. Borrowed from students of the ever growing body...

Translation and Objects offers a new and original perspective in Translation Studies originating from the conviction that in the world today, translation is pervasive and is an expanding field, incorporating linguistic issues, but also connecting it to...

Moratto and Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and connections.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of Audio Description, the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product. This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students, researchers and Audio...

The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of methodologies in translation studies, including both well-established and more recent methodological approaches. It is essential reading for all students and scholars involved in translation...

This collection of essays explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.

This book reflects on translation praxis in 20th century Latin American print culture, tracing the trajectory of linguistic heterogeneity in the region and illuminating collective efforts to counteract the use of translation as a colonial tool and affirm...

Metatranslation presents a selection of thirteen key essays by leading theorist, Theo Hermans, covering a span of forty years. The essays both trace Hermans' work and demonstrate how translation studies has evolved from the 1980s into the much more...

This book presents a critical reading of Kristapurāṇa, the first South Asian retelling of the Bible. In 1579, Thomas Stephens (1549-1619), a young Jesuit priest, arrived in Goa with the aim of preaching Christianity to the local subjects of the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Dolmetschen / Übersetzen, Note: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (IASPK), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Dolmetschen als Interaktion, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seitdem Otto Kade den Begriff der...

Your community is multilingual. What about your church?  In a world where communities thrive with diverse languages, why should our churches lag behind? As migration increases and technology, like livestreaming, becomes commonplace, the need for...

This innovative textbook fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Audiovisual Translation (AVT) in India. It examines the AVT of TV advertisements, analyses trends and practices of AVT in India, and studies the challenges faced by AV translators.

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human...

Facsimile reprint of a seminal work on the relevance of the prenatal experiences on later post-natal psychological, moral and spiritual development. Francis J. Mott was a 20th Century 'Renaissance Man', whose broad life experience, personal study and...

In this timely study, Inghilleri examines the interface between ethics, language, and politics during acts of interpreting, with reference to two particular sites of transnational conflict: the political and judicial context of asylum adjudication and...

Translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional trainingTranslating and interpreting are unpredictable social practices framed by historical, ethical, and political...

Rainer Schwarz (1940-2020) war einer der profiliertesten und präzisesten deutschen Übersetzer chinesischer Prosa. Sein Hauptwerk ist die Übertragung des berühmtesten chinesischen Romans, Shitouji (Geschichte vom Stein), auch genannt Hongloumeng (Der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Dolmetschen / Übersetzen, Note: 2,3 (gut), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Anglistik), Veranstaltung: Grammatik und Poetik: Linguistische Aspekte beim Übersetzen literarischer Texte, Sprache:...

Is psychotherapy a science?Or is it an ideology?Does it work through indoctrination?Or is it a conversation?John Eaton discusses these questions using materials from Freud, Reich, Lazarus, Wolpe and Eysenck as well as critiques of psychotherapy from...

This special issue of The Translator explores the field with a view to learning from the individuals and networks who take on such 'non-professional' translation and interpreting activities. It showcases the work of researchers who look into the...

A volume of selected, annotated references arranged under specific headings to provide a non-partisan guide to teachers involved in designing courses in translation and/or interpreting.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities is a pioneer attempt to introduce a wide range of disciplines in the emerging field of techno-humanities to the English-reading world.