Translation and interpretation

Niranjan Mondal is one of the most prolific writers of Dalit literature in Bangla known for his immersive fictions that root themselves in the lives of people from the Sundarbans, the mangrove forest in east India.

Isn't translation all about saying exactly the same thing in another language?

Shortlisted for the ESSE 2022 Book AwardsShortlisted for the 2022 SAES / AFEA Research PrizeBuilding on an upsurge of interest in the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter series, this book explores the various ways that British novels, from children's fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have been adapted and rewritten for the US market.

This volume presents fresh approaches to the role that translation – in its many forms – plays in enabling and mediating global cultural exchange.

Wie verständigen sich Ärzt:innen und Pflegefachpersonen mit Patient:innen, wenn sie keine gemeinsame Sprache haben?

This is a deeply impressive book by a prominent linguist.

The Dao of Translation sets up an East-West dialogue on the nature of language and translation, and specifically on the "e;unknown forces"e; that shape the act of translation.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sociology is the first encyclopedic presentation of research into the social aspects of translation and interpreting.

In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production, it thus has the potential to be even more creative too.

This book explores the intersection of a number of academic areas of study that are all, individually, of growing importance: translation studies, crime fiction and world literature.

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage challenges the general assumption that language is only one of the codes employed in a theatrical performance; Sirkku Aaltonen changes the perspective to the audience, foregrounding the chosen language variety as a trigger for their reactions.

Translation-related activities from and into Arabic have significantly increased in the last few years, in both scope and scale.

As long as there has been a need for language, there has been a need for translation; yet there is remarkably little scholarship available on pre-modern translation and translators.

Cross-sectoral interaction and cooperation in the communication of nutritional health risks represents a strategic research area among national governments and international health authorities.

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the different themes, areas of practice and developing trends in translation studies.

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today - such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and economic globalization - imply objects that move.

In this landmark project, Moratto and Zhang evaluate how conference interpreting developed as a profession in China, and the directions in which it is heading.

Translation for the theatre is often considered to hold a marginal status between literary translation and adaptation for the stage.

A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation examines the issue of lexical non-equivalence between written Chinese and Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) translation, describing its theoretical and practical implications.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or 'voice,' of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and film.

This book explores the interaction between corpus stylistics and translation studies.

This volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which challenges the linguistic bias in translation studies by proposing a semiotic theory that accounts for all instances of translation, not only interlinguistic translation.

This book re-thinks the literary and social worlds of Mahasweta Devi, the prolific and influential writer and social activist, in connection to her praxis.

How porous is the border between life and death?

This collection illuminates the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of Lawrence Venuti's seminal The Translator's Invisibility, extending these conversations through a contemporary lens of epistemic justice while also exploring its manifestations and transposing it to different disciplines and contexts.

This volume engages with translations of philosophy as complex, socially structured narratives bound by emotional, political and philosophical connections, exploring these dynamics at work in A.

Multicultural Health Translation, Interpreting and Communication presents the latest research in health translation resource development and evaluation, community and professional health interpreting, and the communication of health risks to multicultural populations.

This Handbook sheds light on the current trends in interpretation research, with a particular focus on China and Chinese interpreting.

This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization.

Explores how Victorian poetry and translation dynamically influenced one another in an age of empire.

A partir de lo que se intercambia en las Indias desde los primeros momentos de la conquista -objetos, credos, lenguas, gramáticas, materias, políticas y dominios-, el presente estudio considera la traducción desde un amplio espectro como forma privilegiada de la transferencia, pero también como un sistema único de detección de diferencia entre el Nuevo y el Viejo Mundo.

Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.

This book provides a large-scale empirical multilingual study of crosslinguistic differences in the language of destination promotion.

In this book, Jeremy Munday presents advances towards a general theory of evaluation in translator decision-making that will be of high importance to translator and interpreter training and to descriptive translation analysis.

Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation presents a multilingual examination of the translation of metaphors.