Translation and interpretation

This companion offers a wide-ranging introduction to the rapidly expanding field of translation studies, bringing together some of the best recent scholarship to present its most important current themes Features new work from well-known scholars Includes a broad range of geo-linguistic and theoretical perspectives Offers an up-to-date overview of an expanding field A thorough introduction to translation studies for both undergraduates and graduates Multi-disciplinary relevance for students with diverse career goals

This Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience.

This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H.

Delving into the uneasy relationship between English and Spanish in the United States of America, this book approaches specific topics from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the more cultural to the more linguistic.

This volume explores historical, cultural, linguistic, and anthropocentric influences on Translation Studies (TS).

This is the first book, within the interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies, dealing with the specific tasks and problems involved in the translation of literary works as well as film and television texts, and in the live experience of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation.

Translating Chinese Culture is an innovative and comprehensive coursebook which addresses the issue of translating concepts of culture.

Bringing a fuzzy logic-based approach into translation studies and drawing on the theory of information entropy, this book discusses the translation of fuzzy language in literary works and advances a new method of measuring text fuzziness between translation and source text.

As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome.

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation.

Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice investigates the theory and practice of terminology translation, terminology management, and scholarship within the distinctive milieu of Chinese and explores the complex relationship between terminology translation (micro level) and terminology management (macro level).

From microbiology to nuclear physics and chemistry to software engineering, scientific and technical translation is a complex activity that involves communicating specialized information on a variety of subjects across multiple languages.

The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture.

Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation.

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

This book is a collection of papers presented in Stockholm, at the fourth Critical Link conference.

Envisioned as a much needed celebration of the massive strides made in translation and interpreting studies, this eclectic volume takes stock of the latest cutting-edge research that exemplifies how translation and interpreting might interact with such topics as power, ideological discourse, representation, hegemony and identity.

»Wir meinen es ernst, dass wir wirklich um unser Überleben kämpfen auf diesem Planeten.

This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts.

In Translation Sites, leading theorist Sherry Simon shows how the processes and effects of translation pervade contemporary life.

This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contributed in some way to the volume in a fruitful collaboration.

This essential textbook is a step-by-step guide to how to write a self-reflective translation commentary, a key requirement of most courses on translation.

Cheung, Liu, Moratto, and their contributors examine how corpora can be effectively harnessed to benefit interpreting practice and research in East Asian settings.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient yet invaluable Chinese military classic that is still relevant today.

Translation and interpreting studies and intercultural communication have so far largely been treated as separate disciplines.

This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.

This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has developed since the beginning of the 21st century, focusing in particular on new ways of communication.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation presents expert and new research in analysing and solving translation problems centred on the Chinese language in translation.

Translating for performance is a difficult - and hotly contested - activity.

Through the development of a valid and reliable instrument, this book sets out to study the role that interpreters play in the various settings where they work, i.

En todas las lenguas existen numerosos referentes y conceptos idiosincrásicos.

This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies.

A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces.