Linguistics & Language Studies

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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
Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Worlds Beyond Words

While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, she … 257 View