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  • Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan

    Native Voices Foreign Bodies

    by Beverley Curran ...
    What motivates a Japanese translator and theatre company to translate and perform a play about racial discrimination in the American South? What happens to a 'gay' play when it is staged in a country where the performance of gender is a theatrical tradition? What are the politics of First Nations or Aboriginal theatre in Japanese translation and 'colour blind' casting? Is a Canadian nô drama that ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan

    Edited by Beverley Curran, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Kikuko Tanabe ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of the ways it is theorized and approached as a significant social, cultural, or political practice, and ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

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    Edited by Jason Goulah ...
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  • Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue

    An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright

    by Yoko Tawada, Chantal Wright ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘Portrait of a Tongue’ [‘Porträt einer Zunge’, 2002]. Yoko Tawada is a native speaker of Japanese who learned German as an adult ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Learn French - Bilingual Book (French - English) The Adventures of Julius Caesar

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    $4.99 CAD

  • Translation in Global News

    by Esperanca Bielsa, Susan Bassnett ...
    The mass media are of paramount importance in the formulation and transmission of messages about key developments of global significance, such as terrorism and the war in Iraq, yet the key mediating role of translation in the reception of speeches and addresses of figures like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein has remained largely invisible.Incorporating the results of extensive fieldwork in key ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Translating Milan Kundera

    by Michelle WOODS ...

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Global English Style Guide

    Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market

    by John R. Kohl ...
    The Global English Style Guide illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English. You ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

    by Matthew Carl Strecher ...
    In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts—people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Scientific and Technical Translation

    by Maeve Olohan ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Guides
    Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing translations, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms.Scientific and Technical Translation focuses on texts ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Scientific and Technical Translation Explained

    A Nuts and Bolts Guide for Beginners

    by Jody Byrne ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    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. It requires expert linguistic knowledge and writing skills, combined with the ability to research and understand complex concepts and present them to a range of ... Read more

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  • Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by J. House ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD