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  • Translating for the European Union Institutions

    by Emma Wagner, Svend Bech, Jesús Martínez ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    The institutions of the European Union employ hundreds of translators. Why? What do they do? What sort of translation problems do they have to tackle? Has the language policy of the European Union been affected by the recent inclusion of new Member States?This book answers all those questions. Written by three experienced translators from the European Commission, it aims to help general readers, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • The Bonjour Effect

    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    by Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    by Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Corpus-Based Translation Studies

    Research and Applications

    Edited by Alet Kruger, Kim Wallmach, Professor Jeremy Munday ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    This is a collection of leading research within corpus-based translation studies (CTS). CTS is now recognized as a major paradigm that has transformed analysis within the discipline of translation studies. It can be defined as the use of corpus linguistic technologies to inform and elucidate the translation process, something that is increasingly accessible through advances in computer technology ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Method in Translation History

    by Anthony Pym ...
    Starting from the critical notion that we should be asking questions of contemporary importance - and that 'importance' itself must be defined - Anthony Pym sets about undoing many of the currently dominant models of translation history, positing, among much else, that the object of this history should be translators as people, that researchers are subjectively involved in their object, that ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Audio Description

    A practical guide

    by Louise Fryer ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the skills needed for the effective translation of images into words for the blind and partially-sighted.A wide range of examples – from film to multimedia events and touch tours in theatre, along with comments ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Translation and Minority

    Special Issue of "the Translator"

    Edited by Lawrence Venuti ...
    The premise of this volume is a question: What can the concept of minority bring to the practice and study of translation? Minority is understood here to mean a cultural or political position that is subordinate, whether the social context that so defines it is local, national or global. This position is occupied by languages and literatures that lack prestige or authority, the non-standard and ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Representing Others

    Translation, Ethnography and Museum

    by Kate Sturge ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used 'translation' as a metaphor to describe ethnography's processes of interpretation and cross-cultural comparison. Questions of intelligibility and representation are central to both translation studies and ethnographic writing - as are the dilemmas of cultural distance or proximity, exoticism ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Modern Dictionary of Electronics

    by Rudolf F. Graf ...
    Included in this fully revised classic are well over 28,000 terms, phrases, acronyms, and abbreviations from the ever-expanding worlds of consumer electronics, optics, microelectronics, computers, communications, and medical electronics. From the basic elements of theory to the most cutting-edge circuit technology, this book explains it all in both words and pictures.For easy reference, the author ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The Hermes Complex

    Philosophical Reflections on Translation

    by Charles Le Blanc ...
    Translated by Barbara Folkart ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he transmitted. ... Read more

    $23.99 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

    $83.99 CAD

  • Literary Translation & Foreign Rights

    Author Guide

    by S. C. Scott ...
    Series Book 1 - Author Publishing Guides
    Ready, Set, Translate!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Are You An Author? Unlock Your 10-step Plan to Multiple Streams of Income from Foreign Translations. It's Easy and Profitable!The Indie Publishing Gold Rush is not over…In fact, it’s just beginning in non-English language markets. Find new readers, new markets, and make more money by translating your books into other languages. It’s easier than you think! Whether ... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus