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Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 158.00At conferences and in the literature on community interpreting there is one burning issue that reappears constantly: the interpreter?s role. What are the norms by which the facilitators of communication shape their role? Is there indeed only one role for the community interpreter or are there several? Is community interpreting aimed at facilitating... more...
De-/Re-Contextualizing Conference Interpreting
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 149.00This groundbreaking study explores Simultaneous Conference Interpreting (SI) by focusing on interpreters as professionals working in socio-cultural contexts and on the interdependency between these contexts and actual SI behavior. While previous research on SI has been dominated by cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches, Diriker?s work explores... more...
Decentering Translation Studies
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 135.00This book foregrounds practices and discourses of ?translation? in several non-Western traditions. Translation Studies currently reflects the historiography and concerns of Anglo-American and European scholars, overlooking the full richness of translational activities and diverse discourses. The essays in this book, which generally have a historical... more...
The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 149.00While complementing other volumes in the BTL series in its exploration of the state of the art of translator training, this collection of essays is solely focused on audiovisual translation, one of the most complex and dynamic areas of the translation discipline. The book offers an easily accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the fascinating... more...
Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Like previous collections based on congresses of the European Society of Translation Studies (EST), this volume presents the latest insights and findings in an ever-changing, ever-challenging domain. The twenty-six papers, carefully chosen from about 140 presented at the 4 th EST Congress, offer a bird's eye view of the most pressing concerns and... more...
Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 143.00This volume covers a wide range of topics in Interpreting and Translation Research. Some deal with scientometrics and the history of Interpreting Studies, arguments about conceptual analysis, meta-language and interpreters? risk-taking strategies. Other papers are on research skills like career management, writing communicative abstracts and the practicalities... more...
Expertise and Explicitation in the Translation Process
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 188.00This book addresses the complexities of the translation process. Informed by theoretical and methodological advances in translation studies, research on writing and the expertise paradigm, it explores translation as a text reproduction task. With triangulation of data from Russian-Swedish translation ? think-aloud-methodology and computer logging of... more...
Fundamental Aspects of Interpreter Education
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 188.00The author offers an overview of the Interpreting Studies literature on curriculum and assessment. A discussion of curriculum definitions, foundations, and guidelines suggests a framework based upon scientific and humanistic approaches ? curriculum as process and as interaction. Language testing concepts are introduced and related to interpreting.... more...
Getting Started in Interpreting Research
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 158.00What sets this collection apart in the literature is its direct, personal style. Experienced supervisors as well as younger scholars speak to beginning researchers in interpreting, and more generally in Translation Studies. The contributors, who are very familiar with the difficulties beginners experience, focus on their needs and anticipate their... more...
In Translation ? Reflections, Refractions, Transformations
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00With contributions by researchers from India, Europe, North America and the Caribbean, In Translation ? Reflections, refractions, transformations touches on questions of method and on topics ? including copyright, cultural hybridity, globalization, identity construction, and minority languages ? which are important for the disciplinary development... more...









