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Doing Justice to Court Interpreting
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 135.00First published as a Special Issue of Interpreting (10:1, 2008) and complemented with two articles published in Interpreting (12:1, 2010), this volume provides a panoramic view of the complex and uniquely constrained practice of court interpreting. In an array of empirical papers, the nine authors explore the potential of court interpreters to... more...
Healthcare Interpreting
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 120.00This volume ? the first-ever collection of research on healthcare interpreting ? centers on three interrelated themes: cross-cultural communication in healthcare settings, the interactional role of persons serving as interpreters and the discourse patterns of interpreter-mediated interaction. The individual chapters, by seven innovative researchers... more...
Identity and Status in the Translational Professions
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00This volume contributes to the emerging research on the social formation of translators and interpreters as specific occupational groups. Despite the rising academic interest in sociological perspectives in Translation Studies, relatively little research has so far been devoted to translators? social background, status struggles and sense of self.... more...
Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 158.00Translation Studies has recently been searching for connections with Cultural Studies and Sociology. This volume brings together a range of ways in which the disciplines can be related, particularly with respect to research methodologies. The key aspects covered are the agents behind translation, the social histories revealed by translations, the perceived... more...
Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 165.00To go ?beyond? the work of a leading intellectual is rarely an unambiguous tribute. However, when Gideon Toury founded Descriptive Translation Studies as a research-based discipline, he laid down precisely that intellectual challenge: not just to describe translation, but to explain it through reference to wider relations. That call offers at once... 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...
The Girl on the Fridge
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008; US$ 12.99A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad?such are the denizens of Etgar Keret?s dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret?s first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and... more...
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Random House 2012; US$ 10.67Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times , Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to... more...
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012; US$ 13.99Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret?s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world. Overflowing... more...
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