Category: Publications

About this book A period of intense intercultural activity, the Renaissance offers a productive terrain for exploring the multi-faceted dimensions of translation. Translation Studies increasingly sees translation as a process of cultural interaction in which multiple agents participate. The essays in this volume show how experience, diversely conceptualised, profoundly shapes this interaction at both the level of production and reception. […]

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By Christophe Gagne, Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde Book Description English-French Translation: A Practical Manual allows advanced learners of French to develop their translation and writing skills. This book provides a deeper understanding of French grammatical structures, the nuances of different styles and registers and helps increase knowledge of vocabulary and idiomatic language. The manual provides a wealth of practical tasks based around […]

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By Jesús Baigorri-Jalón Book Description This book sheds light on the important role played by interpreters during the Spanish Civil War, offering a historical overview of the ways in which interpreters on both sides mediated the myriad linguistic, cultural, and ethical difficulties of wartime communication. Drawing on archives, interpreters’ memoirs, and testimonies from their own children, the volume extends beyond traditional […]

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Edited By Teresa Maria Menano Seruya, Maria Lin Moniz and Alexandra Ambrósio Lopes About this book Fear seems to be at the heart of both present-day and past forms of anger, an anger that is produced in and by discourse and in and through translation. It seems to be spreading globally, so much so that we are now living in […]

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Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) Editors: Uri Horesh | Achva Academic College, Jonathan R. Kasstan | University of Westminster, Miriam Meyerhoff | University of Oxford INTRODUCTION Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics Miriam Meyerhoff, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Roey J. Gafter, Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Peter Keegan & Jeanette King | pp. 1–16 ARTICLES Style, identity and language shift Maya Ravindranath Abtahian | pp. 17–38 Stylistic variation in Hebrew reading tasks: Methodological and theoretical insights Roey J. Gafter | pp. 39–54 Stylistic variation in […]

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By Jan Buts DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.20048.but Abstract This article argues that researchers in Translation Studies may proactively aim to understand the consequences of an envisaged merger between targeted advertising and automated translation. Functional translation software is widely available online, and several platforms now perform instant translation, sometimes without asking the user whether this is required. Indeed, the user’s main language is known […]

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Editors: Riccardo Moratto, Martin Woesler Introduction This book presents a thoughtful and thorough account of diverse studies on Chinese translation and interpreting (TI). It introduces readers to a plurality of scholarly voices focusing on different aspects of Chinese TI from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.     The book brings together eighteen essays by scholars at different stages of their careers […]

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Edited By Said M. Shiyab Copyright Year 2022 Book Description Qur’anic idiomaticity, in its all aspects, poses a great deal of challenge to Qur’an readers, learners, commentators, and translators. One of the most challenging aspects of Qur’anic idiomaticity is Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs, where significances of proper Arabic verbs are entirely fused with significances of prepositions following them to produce […]

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Edited By Said M. Shiyab Copyright Year 2022 Book Description Research Into Translation and Training in Arab Academic Institutions provides insights into the current issues and challenges facing in-service and trainee Arabic translators and interpreters, both professionally and academically. This book addresses translators’ status, roles, and structures. It also provides Arab perspectives on translation and translation training, written by scholars representing […]

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By Mira Kadrić, Sylvi Rennert, Christina Schäffner Copyright Year 2022 Book Description The role of the interpreter at international meetings of politicians and diplomats is a critical one. This book examines the history of diplomacy and diplomatic interpreting as well as the rules and realities of modern diplomatic relations. Building on interviews with interpreters, diplomats and politicians, it examines language […]

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