Linguistics & Language Studies
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From  Margaret Atwood in German/y: A Case StudyFrom: Translating Canada |
This chapter explores the reasons for Atwood’s outstanding success in Germany, placing it in the context of Germany’s fascination with Canadian literature in general and examining … | Stefan Ferguson | 18 | 2007 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Mediating Diversity: Identity, Language, and Protest in Ireland, Scotland, and WalesFrom: Managing Diversity |
Activists involved in campaigns for minority-language television services in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales regarded the creation of such services as mechanisms whereby a number of key processes … | Niamh Hourigan | 28 | 2007 | $3.36 Add |
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From  Mio/MioFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
The author recalls a trip to buy bread, and the power of names. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
 NEW! My Mother, My Translator |
In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his … | Jaspreet Singh | 280 | 2021 | View |
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From NEW! My Mother, My TranslatorFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Recounts the story of Singh’s mother translating his first collection of short stories into Punjabi. Their trust over the translation of the fourteenth story prompted Singh to push his … | Jaspreet Singh | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Myth and Meaning |
In this chapter, Lévi-Strauss explores the structural parallels between mythical thought and modern science, tracing how seventeenth-century separation between the two traditions is … | Claude Lévi-Strauss | 44 | 2008 | $4.40 Add |
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From natuur/natureFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
This chapter examines the poems of Ida Gerhardt. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From Northern Lights in German Theatres: How Quebec Plays Come to GermanyFrom: Translating Canada |
This chapter explores the different ways in which theatre texts from francophone Canada travel to Germany. It examines the support available from European and Canadian institutions and the roles … | Andreas Jandl | 12 | 2007 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Not a Madeleine Dunked in TeaFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Explores grief through food, music, and memory. Showcases how these facets of experience intersected with his grief. | Jaspreet Singh | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Note from the German Translator |
This note, written by translator Michael Schiffmann in Heidelberg in December 2008, reflects on rendering Albert Einstein’s writings about Israel and Palestine into English. | Michael Schiffmann | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From  On Language |
In this chapter, Highway examines the Cree language as a cornerstone of Canadian cultural and linguistic identity. | Tomson Highway | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From  On Second Thoughts |
An elderly student of language testing recalls some of the events in his career, attempting to relate them to current issues, and touching on such topics as overall language proficiency, the … | Bernard Spolsky | 10 | 2007 | $1.00 Add |
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From oud/oldFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
On the chronic abstraction of using a language learned after childhood. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Outstanding Interpreters |
It might be enlightening to take a peek at the careers of a few of the more outstanding interpreters of the 20th century. | Ruth Roland | 18 | 1999 | $2.34 Add |
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From NEW! PartitusFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Discusses Partition, Singh’s relationship to and removal from those events as something that occurred before his time that his mother scarcely talked about. | Jaspreet Singh | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Patterns of a Childhood in KashmirFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Chronicles Singh’s childhood in India—family trips, dinners, and challenges, including the complexities and division created through language. | Jaspreet Singh | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
