Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“james standre”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james standre”
Skip side bar filters

  • Thinking Through Translation with Metaphors

    Edited by James St.Andre ...
    Thinking through Translation with Metaphors explores a wide range of metaphorical figures used to describe the translation process, from Aristotle to the present.Most practitioners and theorists of translation are familiar with a number of metaphors for translation, such as the metaphor of the bridge, following in another's footsteps, performing a musical score, changing clothes, or painting a ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Cant

    A Gentleman's Guide to the Language of Rogues in Georgian London

    by Stephen Hart ...
    Visiting the Underworld of Georgian London but not sure how to blend in?Can't tell a clapperdogeon from a running smobbler?Wouldn't recognise the upright man if he noped your costard with his filchman?You need this book.This fascinating guide will teach you all you need to know about the vocabulary of the Rogues of Georgian London and how to function in society at the lowest level.Along the way ... Read more

    $3.93 CAD

  • Power Portuguese

    by Denise Coronha Lima ...
    Power Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese in 5 Steps is a self-study guide and an open door for those interested in learning Portuguese. It includes a strategic collection of words, everyday expressions and the fundamentals of grammar, carefully integrated for you to begin to communicate in basic and correct Brazilian Portuguese. Simple formulas and straightforward grammatical explanations mean that ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Translation

    The Interpretive Model

    by Marianne Lederer ...
    Translated by Ninon Larche ...
    This book, the English version of La traduction aujourd'hui (Hachette 1994), describes the interpretive theory of translation developed at the Paris Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT) over the last 35 years.The theory identifies the mental and cognitive processes involved in both oral and written translation: understanding the text, deverbalizing its language, re-expressing ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Eco-Translation

    Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the perspective of the Anthropocene, or the effect of humans on the global environment, has profound implications for the way translation is considered in the past, present and future. Starting with a deep history of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Translation Theory and Development Studies

    A Complexity Theory Approach

    by Kobus Marais ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development. The second aim flows from the first section’s argument that societies emerge out of, amongst others, complex translational interactions amongst individuals. It will do so by conceptualising translation from a complexity and emergence point of view and relating this view on emergent ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Cultural Dissemination and Translational Communities

    German Drama in English Translation 1900-1914

    by Katja Krebs ...
    The early twentieth century is widely regarded as a crucial period in British theatre history: it witnessed radical reform and change with regard to textual, conceptual and institutional practices and functions. Theatre practitioners and cultural innovators such as translators Harley Granville Barker, William Archer and Jacob Thomas Grein, amongst others, laid the foundations during this period ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Snowstorm

    The Snowstorm: Bilingual Edition (English - Russian)

    by Aleksandr Pushkin ...
    Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Russian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot ... Read more

    $13.74 CAD

  • The Economics of Language

    International Analyses

    by Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Written by two internationally renowned experts in the field, this book explores the determinants of dominant language proficiency among immigrants and other linguistic minorities and the consequences of this proficiency for the labour market.Using empirical material from a range of countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia and Bolivia, the a ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Translation and Language Education

    Pedagogic Approaches Explored

    by Sara Laviosa ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities.In this book, Sara Laviosa proposes a translation-based pedagogy that is grounded in theory and has been applied in real educational contexts. This volume draws on the convergence between the view of language ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Research on Translator and Interpreter Training

    A Collective Volume of Bibliometric Reviews and Empirical Studies on Learners

    by Honghua Wang, Jun Pan, Jackie Xiu Yan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book comprehensively examines the development of translator and interpreter training using bibliometric reviews of the state of the field and empirical studies on classroom practice. It starts by introducing databases in bibliometric reviews and presents a detailed account of the reasons behind the project and its objectives as well as a description of the methods of constructing databases. ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Bible Translation

    Frames of Reference

    by Timothy Wilt ...
    This book offers a broad-based, contemporary perspective on Bible translation in terms of academic areas foundational to the endeavor: translation studies, communication theory, linguistics, cultural studies, biblical studies and literary and rhetorical studies. The discussion of each area is geared towards non-specialists, to introduce them to notions, trends and tools that can contribute to ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD