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Reliablity and Impact of the Interpretation

Reliablity and Impact of the Interpretation

From: The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation

One of the key issues about the interpreting system was its reliability. Could the tribunal wholeheartedly trust the version of the interpreters? In order to ensure a fair trial to the … 25 $3.25 Add
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Restricted Codes and Transcoding

Restricted Codes and Transcoding

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Teaching units 18 to 26: Standardized language, Recipes and instructions, Institutional reports – the United Nations, Weather reports, Meteorological expressions used metaphorically, Job … 36 $4.32 Add
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Sebastian Brant’s Das Narrenschiff in Early Modern England: A Textual Voyage

Sebastian Brant’s Das Narrenschiff in Early Modern England: A Textual Voyage

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

One of the most popular works of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It is a biting satire of human morals and activities comprising a series of chapters displaying various sins and … 14 $1.96 Add
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Selecting Canadiana for the Young: The German Translation of English Canadian Children’s Literature

Selecting Canadiana for the Young: The German Translation of English Canadian Children’s Literature

From: Translating Canada

The following analytical overview of the twentieth century shows that the highly successful translation of English-language Canadian children’s literature into German has been structured … 24 $2.40 Add
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Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

Semi-automatic Corpus Construction from Informative Texts

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

Constructing a corpus is the first step in the process of building a terminological knowledge base (TKB). To do so, terminologists face the difficult task of finding informative domain-specific … ; 12 $1.68 Add
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Sentences in Context

Sentences in Context

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Teaching units 5 to 10: Sentences out of context I, Sentences out of context II, Imagining contexts – Registers, Imagining contexts and readers, Comic strips and Textual Interaction. 22 $2.64 Add
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She is Oranges that Explode

She is Oranges that Explode

From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets

In this chapter, the author explores the experience of refugees living in camps in Palestine. 38 $3.80 Add
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Silences
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Silences

From: My Mother, My Translator

Talks about the story told within an author’s silence. What is revealed by the stories omitted. Singh illustrates this through the story of his mother’s older sister—a story she … 8 $0.80 Add
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Smoke
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Smoke

From: My Mother, My Translator

Singh shares a folktale told to him by his mother before telling a story from when he first moved to Canada. 9 $0.90 Add
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Some Photons
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Some Photons

From: My Mother, My Translator

A poem about eyes. 1 $0.10 Add
Songs Upon the Rivers

Songs Upon the Rivers

The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific

“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade … ; ; 448 View
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stilte/silence
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stilte/silence

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

In this chapter, the de Meijer writes about poetic emphasis, and how this can differ between languages. 8 $0.80 Add
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Student Translator Communicative Competence

Student Translator Communicative Competence

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Discusses student translator competences. 5 $0.60 Add
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Sulphur
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Sulphur

From: My Mother, My Translator

Singh’s decision to visit Banff, and the reaction that visit provoked. 2 $0.20 Add
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Sunday Morning
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Sunday Morning

From: My Mother, My Translator

A quattrain about trains in his mother’s dream. 2 $0.20 Add
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Teaching Professional Prose Translation

Teaching Professional Prose Translation

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

The aim of this book is to establish the theoretical and methodological basis for structuring a professional prose-translation class. The students are learning to develop translator-transfer … 5 $0.60 Add