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A journey in translation
This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hébert’s writing into English by people “in the middle” of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation.
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An encyclopaedia of practical translation and interpreting
As a sequel to An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese published in 1995, this volume focuses on practical translation and interpreting, the two emerging areas of increasing importance in recent decades, and all chapters are fully illustrated with examples in translation...
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Between words and sounds
This book's aim is to shed new light on cultural misunderstanding, examining both the obstacles and outcomes it can entail.
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Blowing on yogurt and other egyptian arabic expressions
A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must for learners of Arabic, language enthusiasts, and lovers of the country and its cultureThe idioms in this small, yet mighty, linguistic treasure trove have been put together to show...
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Global language justice
This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis.
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In translation
Celebrated practitioners speak on the creative, critical, political, and historical aspects of their work.
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Incomparable empires
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in th...
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Introduction to russian-english translation
This text provides Russian-English translators with essential tools needed to improve their translation skills.This practical, hands-on book is suited for anyone involved in Russian-English translation, including professional translators, interpreters, and advanced students. Author Natalia Strelk...
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Language variation and multimodality in audiovisual translation
Dora Renna proposes a pioneering framework, informed by the latest trends in audiovisual translation and multimodality and fit to achieve the complex task of operatively including multimodality in a rigorous corpus analysis of source and target versions of films characterized by language variatio...
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Nation, language, and the ethics of translation
In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining nati...
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On belonging and not belonging
A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita DeanOn Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range of artis...
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Persian parables
A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinkingIn this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a mode of philosophical reflection. Dabashi es...
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Sinologists as translators in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
This collection deploys archive studies and translation hermeneutics to merge the historical study of sinology with translation research. Focusing on the context of contributions by early Sinologists and their translations of works in Chinese, the essays in this volume ask why certain works were ...
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Speaking like a spanish cow
This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, the seventeen contributors to this volume come from a variety of academic backgrounds in music, art, literature, and linguistics. They provide an innovative r...
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The book of things
The first US edition of rising world-poetry star Ales Steger's most acclaimed book. The most prominent Slovenian poet of his generation.
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The challenge of subtitling offensive and taboo language into spanish
This book presents a clear and concise guide to understanding the concepts of offensive and taboo language and how this type of language can be subtitled into Spanish for Spain. It includes an array of examples from recent films and TV series as well as exercises which allow the reader to put the...
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The complete poems of san juan de la cruz
From celebrated contemporary poets María Baranda and Paul Hoover, an exciting collaborative translation of the canonical poems of San Juan de la Cruz.
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The making of barbarians
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many cen...
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The mingjia and related texts
The Mingjia (School of Names) is a notional grouping of philosophers living between the sixth and third centuries BCE whose identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues particularly involving the correct use of names. This is a comprehensive work on this school of thought.
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The tale of genji
Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji
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The translation zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framewo...
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Translanguaging in translation
This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It brings a new dimension to the burgeoning field of translanguaging studies and highlights the role of translation in the dev...
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Translating boundaries
Translation studies have traditionally been known to be interdisciplinary. What better term to sum this up than boundaries? A term that means different things in different fields and can be applied to a multitude of topics. Political, personal, symbolic, or professional boundaries, boundaries of ...
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Translating myself and others
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as we...
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Translation and global asia
Translation and Global Asia: Relocating Cultural Production Network explores the richness of non-Western discourses and practices of translation, focusing on translational exchanges among non-Western languages and Asian translation traditions. The volume provides insight into the translation trad...
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Translation and modernization in east asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
This volume aims at studying the role played by translation in the modernization process of the East Asian countries. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many people saw the West as a model for modernization and hence modernization in East Asia was more often than not taken as a proc...
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Translation and violence
Rethinking the ethics and politics of translation in the age of AIThe rapid development of AI-powered translation tools is making translation more accessible than ever before, raising in a dramatic new way the old utopian promise of translation—to allow transparent dialogue across linguistic barr...
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Translation theory for literary translators
This book analyses how practicing literary translators can benefit from translation theory.
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Transmissibility and cultural transfer
Edited by Stephanie Schwerter and Jennifer K. Dick, Transmissibility and Cultural Transfer: Dimensions of Translation in the Humanities brings together monumental voices in the social sciences—such as Jean-René Ladmiral from Paris and Peter Caws from Washington DC—to begin to address the Humaniti...
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Trauma-informed applied linguistics
This book explores how applied linguistics can work more ethically and sympathetically through trauma-informed approaches. It considers the positionality of asylum seekers, the narrative construction of traumatic events, trauma-informed interviewing, interpreting and teaching, and the risk of vic...
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Twenty-nine goodbyes
An engrossing, witty introduction to classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine translations of a single poem
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Voice and versification in translating poems
Robert Frost, the modern American poet, claimed ‘poetry’ was what is lost in translation. This refreshing yet rigorous and extensive examination of the art and science of versification and translation focuses on the poem while offering a broad overview of the technical terminology involved.
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Wandering mind and metaphysical thoughts
This English-Chinese bilingual edition is the complete first book of poems written by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. His poems offer an array of snapshots over various themes where politics, dreams, and metaphysical concerns are mixed. With original art works by Gao, this collection advances hi...
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