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  • Becoming A Translatorby Douglas Robinson

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 33.95

    Douglas Robinson presents an innovative approach to translation by integrating translation theory and the practical skills required by the working translator. The book provides the type of practical information and advice that novice translators need: * how to translate faster and more accurately * how to deal with arising problems and stress *... 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...

  • Self-Translationby Anthony Cordingley

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 38.99

    S elf-Translation: Brokering originality in hybrid culture provides critical, historical and interdisciplinary analyses of self-translators and their works. It investigates the challenges which the bilingual oeuvre and the experience of the self-translator pose to conventional definitions of translation and the problematic dichotomies of "original"... more...

  • The Pragmatic Translatorby Massimiliano Morini

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 34.99

    This book is concerned with translation theory. It proposes an all-round view of translation in the terms of modern pragmatics, as articulated in three pragmatic functions (performative, interpersonal and locative) which describe how translated texts function in the world, involve readers and are rooted in their spatio-temporal contexts. It presents... more...

  • Handbook of Translation Studiesby Yves Gambier; Luc van Doorslaer

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 135.00

    As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. It joins the other signs of maturation such as Summer Schools, the development of academic curricula, historical surveys, journals, book series, textbooks, terminologies, bibliographies and encyclopedias. The... more...

  • Translation Changes Everythingby Lawrence Venuti

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95

    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception;... more...

  • Cross-Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translationsby Silvia Hansen-Schirra; Erich Steiner; Stella Neumann; Kerstin Kunz; Marlene Kast; Karin Maksymski; Yvonne Klein; Sandra Hansen; Mihaela Vela; Oliver Culo

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00

    This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, the contributors implement an empirical research strategy with further applications in computational linguistics and language technology. more...

  • Interpreting the Peaceby Michael Kelly; Catherine Baker

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    Analysing the issues of language that faced international forces carrying out peace operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, this book examines how differences of language were an integral part of the conflicts in the country and in what way the multinational UN and NATO forces faced their own problems of communication and language support. more...

  • Translation in the Digital Ageby Michael Cronin

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95

    Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread and profound. ?From automatic online translation services to the rise of crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps for smartphones, the translation revolution is everywhere.... more...