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133 produkter
Ring Lardner and the Other
Inbunden, 1993
2494 kr
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Ring Lardner was one of the most popular figures of the early twentieth century - newspaper columnist, sports writer, short story writer and personality - yet he has received little attention from scholars. Douglas Robinson's new book examines the writings of a critically neglected American writer; …
Ring Lardner and the Other
E-bok, 1992
1602 kr
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Ring Lardner and the Other is actually two books, mutually embedded. The first is about Ring Lardner: a long reading of a single Lardner short story, "Who Dealt?", a briefer look at his life and work, and an exploration of his reception. The second is about the "Other," in an expanded Lacanian …
Feeling Extended
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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A new view of the extended mind thesis argues that a stark binary opposition between really extending and seeming to extend oversimplifies the issue. The extended-mind thesis (EMT), usually attributed to Andy Clark and David Chalmers, proposes that in specific kinds of mind-body-world interaction …
Dao of Translation
An East-West Dialogue
Häftad, 2018
739 kr
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The Dao of Translation sets up an East-West dialogue on the nature of language and translation, and specifically on the "unknown forces" that shape the act of translation. To that end it mobilizes two radically different readings of the Daodejing (formerly romanized as the Tao Te Ching): the …
Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory
In memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013
Häftad, 2018
761 kr
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This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheung’s "pushing-hands" method of translation studies. Pushing-hands was an idea Martha began exploring in the last four years of her life, and only had time to publish at article length in …
Becoming a Translator
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing …
Becoming a Translator
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
Häftad, 2019
655 kr
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Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing …
Critical Translation Studies
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu, with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in …
Translationality
Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities
Häftad, 2019
883 kr
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This book defines "translationality" by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a …
Priming Translation
Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors
Inbunden, 2022
2084 kr
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This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research.Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the …
Priming Translation
Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research.Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the …
Performative Linguistics
Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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In this book, Douglas Robinson introduces a new distinction between 'constative' and 'performative' linguistics, arguing that Austin's distinction can be used to understand linguistic methodologies. Constative linguistics, Robinson suggests, includes methodologies aimed at 'freezing' language as an …
Introducing Performative Pragmatics
Häftad, 2005
671 kr
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This user-friendly introduction to a new ‘performative’ methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a …
Introducing Performative Pragmatics
Inbunden, 2005
2600 kr
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This user-friendly introduction to a new ‘performative’ methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a …
Performative Linguistics
Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words
Häftad, 2002
882 kr
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In this book, Douglas Robinson introduces a new distinction between 'constative' and 'performative' linguistics, arguing that Austin's distinction can be used to understand linguistic methodologies. Constative linguistics, Robinson suggests, includes methodologies aimed at 'freezing' language as an …
Low-Grade Metamorphism
Inbunden, 1998
1988 kr
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Low-Grade Metamorphism explores processes and transformations in rocks during the early stages of metamorphic recrystallization.There has been little analysis and documentation of this widespread phenomenon, especially of the substantial and exciting advances that have taken place in the subject …
Translation and Taboo
Häftad, 1996
300 kr
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From the time of the first written sacred texts in the West, taboo has proscribed the act and art of translation. So argues Robinson, who with candor verging on iconoclasm explores the age-old prohibition of translation of sacred texts and shows how similar taboos influence intercultural exchange …
Translation as a Form
A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”
E-bok, 2022
829 kr
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This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin’s 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin’s essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and a …
Translation as a Form
A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”
E-bok, 2022
856 kr
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This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin’s 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin’s essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and a …
Priming Translation
Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors
E-bok, 2022
762 kr
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This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the …
Priming Translation
Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors
E-bok, 2022
741 kr
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This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the …
Becoming a Translator
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
E-bok, 2019
488 kr
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Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing …
Becoming a Translator
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
E-bok, 2019
488 kr
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Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing …
Behavioral Economics of Translation
E-bok, 2022
876 kr
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This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting. The volume takes its points of departure from the …
Behavioral Economics of Translation
E-bok, 2022
876 kr
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This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting. The volume takes its points of departure from the …
A Zombie Theory of Translation
Or, What is a 'Revenant' Translation?
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation, in which only the body (not the …
A Zombie Theory of Translation
Or, What is a 'Revenant' Translation?
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation, in which only the body (not the …
