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Translating & Interpreting

  • A Classical Tibetan Readerby Yael Bentor

    Wisdom Publications 2013;

    A Classical Tibetan Reader answers a long-standing need for well chosen readings to accompany courses in classical Tibetan language. Professor Bentor has built her Tibetan reader out of time-tested selections from texts that she has worked with while teaching classical Tibetan over the past twenty years. She has assembled here a selection of Tibetan... more...

  • A to Z of Arabic - English - Arabic Translationby Ronak Husni; Daniel L. Newman

    Saqi 2013; US$ 23.32

    The A to Z highlights common pitfalls faced by translators working on both Arabic?English and English?Arabic texts. Each translation problem is carefully contextualized and illustrated with examples drawn from contemporary literature and the media. Using a comparative analysis approach, the authors discuss grammatical, lexical and semantic translation... more...

  • Dummettby Karen Green

    Wiley 2013; US$ 79.95

    Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and Quine. In conjunction with them he has been responsible for much of the framework within which questions concerning meaning and understanding are raised and answered in the late twentieth-century Anglo-American... more...

  • Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1850by Alison Martin; Susan Pickford

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge about foreign peoples, lands, and customs in the Enlightenment... more...

  • Translation in Theatre and Performanceby Silvia Bigliazzi; Paola Ambrosi; Peter Kofler

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    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 role and function of the translator as co-subject of the performance, it addresses current issues... more...

  • Mouse or Rat?by Umberto Eco

    Orion 2013; US$ 22.64

    From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humourous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. more...

  • Mouse or Rat?by Umberto Eco

    Orion 2013; Not Available

    From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humourous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. more...

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studiesby Carmen Millán; Francesca Bartrina

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 200.00

    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... more...

  • Quality In Professional Translationby Joanna Drugan

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 38.99

    How do translation companies, multilingual international organizations and individual translators measure and improve the quality of their translations? This book reports on the range of approaches to quality assurance across the translation industry, from Norway to China, from the individual freelance working in a home office to the largest translation... more...

  • They Divided the Skyby Christa Wolf; Luise von Flotow

    University of Ottawa Press 2013; US$ 18.95

    First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961. more...