Translation and interpretation

This book features a collection of articles on comparative literature from a translational perspective, with a special reference to translation of contemporary Chinese literature.

At conferences and in the literature on community interpreting there is one burning issue that reappears constantly: the interpreter's role.

Communicating Across Cultures: A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions is a manual which addresses the complex task of interpreting and translating through reflection and practice.

This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and practice.

Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire.

Both in the sheer breadth and in the detail of their coverage the essays in these two volumes challenge hegemonic thinking on the subject of translation.

Don't just read the Bible literallyread it Literarily.

This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Chinese glossaries.

This book addresses the dynamics of normativity and resilience through the lens of translation.

Translation and interpreting can be seen as two special sub-types of bilingual communication.

Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht der Spiritualismus der Frühen Neuzeit, verstanden als die Annahme einer ›geistigen‹, spirituellen Gegenwart Gottes.

This book explores the impact of applying computer-assisted (CAT) tools in freelance translation toward better understanding translators' strategies, preferences, and challenges in using new technologies and identifying areas of enhancement in translator training.

An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting addresses not only the two key areas of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, the legal and health sectors, but also business interpreting.

Traducir es adaptar y, en el fondo, salvar las distancias, esquivándolas, superándolas, pero, a la vez, admitiéndolas.

In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure.

Die anspruchsvolle Tätigkeit als ÜbersetzerIn und DolmetscherIn an Gerichten und Behörden erfordert neben hervorragenden Sprachkenntnissen auch juristisches Know-how sowie Erfahrung in den verschiedenen Dolmetsch-Techniken.

Dieser Sammelband, der Beiträge von Expert:innen aus dem Bereich Dolmetschen umfasst, präsentiert Entwicklungslinien des Dolmetschens in einem gesellschaftlichen und behördlichen Umfeld im DACH-Raum (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz).

Is it realistic to expect great literature of one language to be re-presented artistically intact in another language?

Despite the recognition that corpus-based translation research would benefit from the triangulation of corpora, little has been done in the direction of actually employing combined corpus data and methods in the field.

This volume outlines a new approach to the study of linguistic hybridity and its translation in cross-cultural writing.

Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters.

Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course provides a step-by-step guide to consecutive interpreting.

It is all too often assumed that humour is the very effect of a text.

What motivates a Japanese translator and theatre company to translate and perform a play about racial discrimination in the American South?

Comics are a pervasive art form and an intrinsic part of the cultural fabric of most countries.

This book presents a systematic literary comparison of the retranslations by adopting a mixed-method and bottom-up (inductive) approach by developing an empirical corpus approach.

This Element shows a translation theory approach to the history of medieval Arabic translations.

In our globalized and transcultural world it has become more common than ever to live among different languages, to cross geographical and cultural borders frequently, to negotiate between multiple spaces and loyalties: from global businesspeople to guest workers, from tourists to refugees.

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities.

Sellin invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators.

How do we know the other culture?

The teaching of texts in translation has become an increasingly common practice, but so too has the teaching of texts from languages and cultures with which the instructor may have little or no familiarity.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of feminism and gender awareness in translation and translation studies today.

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects.

Dolmetschqualität ist ein komplexes Thema, das sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen den Anforderungen und Erwartungen von NutzerInnen wie DolmetscherInnen und der subjektiven Einschätzung des Publikums bewegt.

Popular and multimodal forms of cultural products are becoming increasingly visible within translation studies research.

This book examines the development of Chinese translation practice in relation to the rise of ideas of modern selfhood in China from the 1890s to the 1920s.

How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.

The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established.