Translation Theories Explored – serie
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36 produkter
Can Theory Help Translators?
A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface
Av Andrew Chesterman, Emma Wagner
Häftad, 2002
669 kr
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Can Theory Help Translators? is a dialogue between a theoretical scholar and a professional translator, about the usefulness (if any) of translation theory. The authors argue about the problem of the translator's identity, the history of the translator's role, the translator's visibility, …
Translation after Wittgenstein
Häftad, 2020
731 kr
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In this eminently readable study, Philip Wilson explores the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein and shows how a reading of this philosophy can enable the translation theorist and the practising translator to reflect upon and improve the phenomenon of translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key …
Translation and Paratexts
Inbunden, 2018
2600 kr
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As the 'thresholds' through which readers and viewers access texts, paratexts have already sparked important scholarship in literary theory, digital studies and media studies. Translation and Paratexts explores the relevance of paratexts for translation studies and provides a framework for further …
Translation and Gender
Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism'
Inbunden, 2026
2905 kr
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This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a 'gendered' way of understanding translation by convincingly constructing a link between translation studies and the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies.Translation and Gender places work in …
Translation and Gender
Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism'
Häftad, 2026
749 kr
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This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a 'gendered' way of understanding translation by convincingly constructing a link between translation studies and the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies.Translation and Gender places work in …
Translating as a Purposeful Activity
Functionalist Approaches Explained
Häftad, 2026
671 kr
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This classic text has long been the essential guide to functionalist approaches to translation. Christiane Nord explains the complexities of theories and terms in simple language with numerous examples from a variety of languages and cultures, including new examples from Chinese language.Covering …
Translating as a Purposeful Activity
Functionalist Approaches Explained
Inbunden, 2026
2600 kr
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This classic text has long been the essential guide to functionalist approaches to translation. Christiane Nord explains the complexities of theories and terms in simple language with numerous examples from a variety of languages and cultures, including new examples from Chinese language.Covering …
Translation in Systems
Descriptive and System-oriented Approaches Explained
Av Theo Hermans
Inbunden, 2016
2600 kr
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The notion of systems has helped revolutionize translation studies since the 1970s. As a key part of many descriptive approaches, it has broken with the prescriptive focus on what translation should be, encouraging researchers to ask what translation does in specific cultural settings. From his …
Representing Others
Translation, Ethnography and Museum
Av Kate Sturge
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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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 …
Deconstruction and Translation
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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Deconstruction and Translation explains ways in which many practical and theoretical problems of translation can be rethought in the light of insights from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. If there is no one origin, no transcendent meaning, and thus no stable source text, we can no longer …
Translation and Empire
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of postcolonial theory, examines current …
Translation and Gender
Translating in the 'Era of Feminism'
Inbunden, 2016
3262 kr
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The last thirty years of intellectual and artistic creativity in the 20th century have been marked by gender issues. Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have also been powerfully affected by the focus on gender. As a result of feminist praxis and criticism and the …
Can Theory Help Translators?
A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface
Av Andrew Chesterman, Emma Wagner
Inbunden, 2016
2904 kr
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Can Theory Help Translators? is a dialogue between a theoretical scholar and a professional translator, about the usefulness (if any) of translation theory. The authors argue about the problem of the translator's identity, the history of the translator's role, the translator's visibility, …
Translation and Language
Inbunden, 2016
2600 kr
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Translation Studies and linguistics have been going through a love-hate relationship since the 1950s. This book assesses both sides of the relationship, tracing the very real contributions that linguists have made to translation studies and at the same time recognizing the limitations of many of …
Translation and Practice Theory
Av Maeve Olohan
Inbunden, 2020
2842 kr
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Translation and Practice Theory is a timely and theoretically innovative study linking professional practice and translation theory, showing the usefulness of a practice-theoretical approach in addressing some of the challenges that the professional world of translation is currently facing, …
Translation and Practice Theory
Av Maeve Olohan
Häftad, 2020
761 kr
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Translation and Practice Theory is a timely and theoretically innovative study linking professional practice and translation theory, showing the usefulness of a practice-theoretical approach in addressing some of the challenges that the professional world of translation is currently facing, …
Translation and Paratexts
Häftad, 2018
671 kr
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As the 'thresholds' through which readers and viewers access texts, paratexts have already sparked important scholarship in literary theory, digital studies and media studies. Translation and Paratexts explores the relevance of paratexts for translation studies and provides a framework for further …
Translating as a Purposeful Activity
Functionalist Approaches Explained
Häftad, 2018
684 kr
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This bestselling text is a comprehensive overview of functionalist approaches to translation in English. Christiane Nord, one of the leading figures in translation studies, explains the complexities of theories and terms in simple language with numerous examples. Covering how the theories …
Translation as Metaphor
Häftad, 2018
851 kr
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In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new, overlapping theoretical territories and the …
Translation and Style
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Style plays a major role in the translation of literary as well as non-literary texts, and Translation and Style offers an updated survey of this highly interdisciplinary area of translation studies. Jean Boase-Beier examines a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches including stylistics, …
Translation and Style
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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Style plays a major role in the translation of literary as well as non-literary texts, and Translation and Style offers an updated survey of this highly interdisciplinary area of translation studies. Jean Boase-Beier examines a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches including stylistics, …
Translation and Language Education
Pedagogic Approaches Explored
Av Sara Laviosa
Inbunden, 2014
2905 kr
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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 …
Translation and Language Education
Pedagogic Approaches Explored
Av Sara Laviosa
Häftad, 2014
884 kr
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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 …
Translation after Wittgenstein
Inbunden, 2015
2601 kr
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In this eminently readable study, Philip Wilson explores the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein and shows how a reading of this philosophy can enable the translation theorist and the practising translator to reflect upon and improve the phenomenon of translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key …
Translation as Metaphor
Inbunden, 2015
2843 kr
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In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical territories and the many …
Cosmopolitanism and Translation
Investigations into the Experience of the Foreign
Inbunden, 2016
2904 kr
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Social theories of the new cosmopolitanism have called attention to the central importance of translation, in areas such as global democracy, human rights and social movements, but translation studies has not engaged systematically with theories of cosmopolitanism.In Cosmopolitanism and …
Cosmopolitanism and Translation
Investigations into the Experience of the Foreign
Häftad, 2016
749 kr
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Social theories of the new cosmopolitanism have called attention to the central importance of translation, in areas such as global democracy, human rights and social movements, but translation studies has not engaged systematically with theories of cosmopolitanism.In Cosmopolitanism and …
Translation and Gender
Translating in the 'Era of Feminism'
Häftad, 1997
821 kr
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The last thirty years of intellectual and artistic creativity in the 20th century have been marked by gender issues. Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have also been powerfully affected by the focus on gender. As a result of feminist praxis and criticism and the …
Translation and Language
Häftad, 1997
669 kr
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Translation Studies and linguistics have been going through a love-hate relationship since the 1950s. This book assesses both sides of the relationship, tracing the very real contributions that linguists have made to translation studies and at the same time recognizing the limitations of many of …
Translation and Empire
Häftad, 1997
650 kr
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Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of postcolonial theory, examines current …
