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Translating & Interpreting

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  • Translation and the Lawby Marshall Morris

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1995; US$ 173.00

    This long needed reference on the innumerable and increasing ways that the law intersects with translation and interpreting features essays by scholars and professions from the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, and Sweden. The essays range from sophisticated treatments of historical and hence philosophical variations in concept... more...

  • Translation Excellenceby Marilyn Gaddis Rose

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 158.00

    This inaugural volume transcends its archival value. Indeed, taken as a whole, the essays pose a provocation for both translation practice and theory. The criteria proposed and the issues examined remain the same. Absolute excellence, however, continues to move beyond the horizon, and changes in technology and taste inevitably change both the implementation... more...

  • Translation: Theory and Practice, Tension and Interdependenceby Mildred L. Larson

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 165.00

    This book is a collection of articles which highlight the fact that good translation theory is based on information gained from practice. At the same time, good practice is based on carefully worked-out theory. The two are interdependent. The authors who have contributed are persons who know the importance of both theory and practice and the tension... more...

  • Translator and Interpreter Training and Foreign Language Pedagogyby Peter W. Krawutschke

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1989; US$ 158.00

    Topics included in this volume are centered around the politics of translator and interpreter education in higher education in the US as well as in Europe and the perceived image of elitism of these disciplines; other essays discuss the tension and disciplinary boundaries between foreign language training and translator and interpreter education. Topics... more...

  • The Critical Link 2by Roda P. Roberts; Silvana E. Carr; Diana Abraham; Aideen Dufour

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 165.00

    This volume of selected papers from the second Critical Link conference (Vancouver, 1998) shows a marked evolution in Community Interpreting (CI) since the first Critical Link conference of 1995. In the intervening three years the field has advanced from pioneering to professionalization in response to new social needs created by the influx of immigrants... more...

  • Translation in Contextby Andrew Chesterman; Natividad Gallardo San Salvador; Yves Gambier

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 195.00

    Translation in Context is a collection of contributions from the 1998 Congress arranged by EST, the European Society for Translation Studies, in Granada, Spain. It illustrates some of the latest research interests and achievements in Translation Studies at the turn of the millennium. The contributions show how the context of Translation Studies has... more...

  • The Changing Scene in World Languagesby Marian B. Labrum

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 158.00

    The 1997 ATA volume brings together articles on translation practice into the 21st Century. Contributions deal with the Information Age, multilingualism in Europe, English as a Lingua Franca, Terminology standardization, translating for the media, and new directions in translator training. A comprehensive bibliography of dissertations makes this a... more...

  • Knowledge and Skills in Translator Behaviorby Wolfram Wilss

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 158.00

    This book represents an approach which is intended to give readers a general insight into what translators really do and to explain the concepts and tools of the trade, bearing in mind that translation cannot be reduced to simple principles that can easily be separated from each other and thus be handled in isolation. On the whole, the book is more... more...

  • Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongueby Yoko Tawada; Chantal Wright

    University of Ottawa Press 2013; US$ 18.95

    Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a meditation on language and on equivalence between languages, specifically between German, Japanese and English. more...

  • Technical Translationby Jody Byrne

    Springer 2006; US$ 139.99

    Provides an introduction to technical translation and usability for translators and researchers. After exploring various theoretical aspects of technical translation, readers learn how to improve and assess the quality of technical translations by using cognitive psychology, usability engineering and technical communication. more...