Translation and interpretation Books

The Book of Psalms, In Hebrew and English: Arranged in Parallelism (1872) is a religious text that presents the Psalms in both Hebrew and English, side by side. The book is arranged in parallelism, which means that each line of the Hebrew text is...

Hints On Translation From Latin Into English is a guidebook written by Alexander Souter in 1920. The book is intended for those who are interested in translating Latin into English, and it provides practical advice and useful tips on how to do so...

This edited volume covers the development and application of metalanguages for concretely describing and communicating translation processes in practice.In a modern setting of project-based translation, it is crucial to bridge the gaps between various...

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate...

Mona Baker is one of the leading figures in the development of translation studies as an academic discipline. This book brings together fifteen of her most influential articles, carefully selected and grouped under three main topics that represent her...

Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with...

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...

This volume offers a comprehensive view of current research directions in Translation and Interpreting Studies, outlining the theoretical concepts underpinning that research and presenting detailed discussions of the various methods used. Organized...

This book presents a systematic and in-depth investigation into the translation and reception of The Art of War in the western strategic culture.

This is the first book to investigate and discuss translation processes and translation products in South Korean government institutions, employing a parallel corpus-based approach. This book explores important facets of Korean government translation by...

Il libro ""De Gli Elementi Di Euclide Li Primi Sei Libri: Tradotti En Lingua Italiana"" ����� una traduzione in lingua italiana dei primi sei libri degli ""Elementi"" di Euclide, pubblicata nel 1686. Questo testo ����� considerato uno dei pi�����...

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea 1876-1910 embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876-1910) after the opening of the so-called 'Hermit Nation' in describing the Korean language and missionary works.

Campbell, Vidal and their contributors expand the notion of translation beyond linguistic, modal and medial borders to embrace posthumanist perspectives through a holistic experiential epistemology which envisions translation as engaged, situated social...

Literature, Interpretation, and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study.

This book also addresses the increasing use of technology and hybrid forms of translation and interpreting in the legal system, and shows different ways in which interpreters co-construct information.

This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer's account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical project.

In Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu, the writer has studied Liang Shiqiu, a famous writer and important critic, also one of the most prominent translators in 20th century China, most notably the first Chinese to finish the translation of...

This volume addresses the global reception of "untranslatable" concrete poetry. Featuring contributions from an international group of literary and translation scholars and practitioners, working across a variety of languages, the book views the...

The book is a collection of the dialogues between Xu Jun, a well-known expert in French literary translation and eminent "Changjiang" scholar in translation studies in China, and some celebrated literary translators in contemporary China, some of whom...

This book offers a comprehensive account of the audiovisual translation (AVT) of humour, bringing together insights from translation studies and humour studies to outline the key theories underpinning this growing area of study and their applications to...

This book offers a theoretical framework for assessing translation quality grounded in supportive argumentation. The volume outlines a systematic framework for translators and translation critics to substantiate their decisions and judgments on a...

Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice.

The book presents a comprehensive study of various cognitive and affective aspects of web searching for translation problem solving. Research into the use of the web as an external aid of consultation has frequently occupied a secondary position in the...

This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development. The second aim flows from the first section's argument that societies emerge out of, amongst others, complex translational interactions amongst...

For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories...

This edited thematic collection features latest developments of discourse analysis in translation and interpreting studies. It investigates the process of how cultural and ideological intervention is conducted in translation and interpreting using a wide...

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date overview, it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide.　This...

Some of the Web's pithiest advice on building a successful translation practice. Translation is the grandest, most foolhardy enterprise that humans can engage in. Done right, it can also be a lucrative and intellectually satisfying career. Fire Ant &...

The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting provides a comprehensive survey of the field of interpreting for a global readership. The handbook includes an introduction and twenty-seven chapters by contributors who are experts involved in the interpreting...

Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic,...

This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and translation as a cooperative effort on the part of the translator, the director, and the actors. Exploring the...

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...

Ahora en su segunda edición, este manual introduce al lector a la actividad de la traducción de español-inglés/inglés-español, adoptando un punto de vista práctico y siguiendo los estándares profesionales actuales. Integrando los últimos avances en la...

Envisioned as a much needed celebration of the massive strides made in translation and interpreting studies, this eclectic volume takes stock of the latest cutting-edge research that exemplifies how translation and interpreting might interact with such...

This book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works in judicial contexts. Using a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it looks in detail at the ways in which judicial discourse is argued,...

Translating Tagore's 'Stray Birds' into Chinese explores the choices in poetry translation in light of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and illustrates the ways in which readers can achieve a deeper understanding of translated works in English and...

Hermeneutics, as a discipline of the humanities, is often assumed to be in thrall to the same subjectivity of every interpretive method, in direct contrast to the objectivity prized by the natural sciences. This book argues that there is a false...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Dolmetschen / Übersetzen, Note: 1,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Seminar für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Handlungsmuster für die Konsekutivdolmetschkompetenz gelten als...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Dolmetschen / Übersetzen, Note: sehr gut (1,0), Universität Hamburg (Institut für Germanistik 1), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Autoren literarischer Texte schreiben für ein Lesepublikum ihrer Zeit, ihres...

Das Buch ""Der Prophet Malachi: Einleitung, Grundtext Und Uebersetzung (1856)"" von Reinke, Laurenz ist eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit �����ber den biblischen Propheten Malachi. Es enth�����lt eine Einleitung, die den historischen und literarischen...

English-French Translation: A Practical Manual allows advanced learners of French to develop their translation and writing skills. This book provides a deeper understanding of French grammatical structures, the nuances of different styles and registers...

Das Buch ""Sir Walter Scott als �����bersetzer"" von Karl Blumenhagen aus dem Jahr 1900 besch�����ftigt sich mit dem schottischen Schriftsteller Sir Walter Scott und seiner T�����tigkeit als �����bersetzer. Scott �����bersetzte unter anderem Werke von...

In translating Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralités into English, Angela Carter worked to modernize the language and message of the tales before rewriting many of them for her own...

The ever-shifting terrain of Translation StudiesSince the inception of Translation Studies in the 1970s, its researchers have held regular metareflections. Largely based on the assessment of translation and interpreting as two distinct but related modes...