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The Translator as Mediator of Cultures
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 135.00If it is bilingualism that transfers information and ideas from culture to culture, it is the translator who systematizes and generalizes this process. The translator serves as a mediator of cultures. In this collection of essays, based on a conference held at the University of Hartford, a group of individuals ? professional translators, linguists,... more...
Why Translation Studies Matters
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 135.00Whether Translation Studies really matters is an important and challenging question which practitioners of translation and interpreting raise repeatedly. TS scholars, many of whom are translators and interpreters themselves, are not indifferent to it either. The twenty papers of this thematic volume, contributed by authors from various parts of Europe,... more...
The Metalanguage of Translation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 128.00?Let the meta-discussion begin,? James Holmes urged in 1972. Coming almost forty years later ? years filled with fascinating and often unexpected developments in the interdiscipline of Translation Studies ? this volume offers the reader a multiplicity of meta-perspectives, while also moving the discussion forward. Indeed, the (re)production and (re)use... more...
The Moving Text
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 128.00For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there anything that translation theory can gain from localization?... more...
Multiple Voices in the Translation Classroom
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 188.00The main aim of this book is to provide teaching ideas that can be adapted to different learning environments and that can be used with different language combinations. The pedagogical approach and the activities, tasks and projects are based on Communicative, Humanistic and Socioconstructivist principles: the students are actively involved in their... more...
Charting the Future of Translation History
University of Ottawa Press 2006; US$ 22.99Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of translation its rightful place. Clearly, progress has been made, and the history of translation has become a viable independent research... more...
Translation Quality Assessment
University of Ottawa Press 2004; US$ 14.99Outlining an original, discourse-based model for translation quality assessment that goes beyond conventional microtextual error analysis, Malcolm Williams explores the potential of transferring reasoning and argument as the prime criterion of translation quality. Assessment through error analysis is inevitably based on an error count - an unsatisfactory... more...
Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation
University of Ottawa Press 2006; US$ 16.99This volume in honour of Ingrid Meyer is a tribute to her work in the interrelated fields of lexicography, terminology and translation. One key thing shared by these fields is that they all deal with text. Accordingly, the essays in this collection are united by the fact that they too are all "text-based" in some way. In the majority of essays, electronic... more...
Portraits de traductrices
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2002; US$ 19.99Ce recueil nous fait pénétrer dans le cabinet de travail de onze femmes, traductrices de romans, de traités scientifiques, d?études historiques et d?ouvrages philosophiques. L?une d?elles a traduit la Bible en entier. Une autre est l?auteur d?un manuel de traduction qui a fait date. Grâce à la traduction, ces femmes instruites, indépendantes et déterminées... more...
Le Traducteur, l'Église et le Roi
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 1998; US$ 12.99Cet ouvrage jette un nouvel éclairage sur une période particulièrement fertile de l?histoire de la traduction, qui s?étend sur les XIIe siècles en Espagne. C?est au cours de cette période que le savoir scientifique et philosophique des Grecs, revu et corrigé par les Arabes, est transmis aux Occidentaux. Clara Foz remet en question l?idée communément... more...









