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Sentences in Context

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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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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Translation Memory and “Text”

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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In recent years, a number of observations have been made with regard to the impact that TM tools can have on the quality of target texts. A few of these observations have been made by … 13 $1.82 Add
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An Evaluation Methodology for Comparing Two Approaches to Search and Retrieval in Translation Memory Databases

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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The methodology provides a valid and reliable comparison of the two approaches to searching for and retrieving information from a database. 11 $1.54 Add
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Consider Yourself

From: My Mother, My Translator

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Poetry about Singh having his fortune told. 1 $0.10 Add
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Deverbalization

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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Teaching units 11 to 17: Intersemiotic translation, Oral summary of oral text, Oral translation of oral text, Subtitling, Conversation interpreting – Role play, Police and court … 26 $3.12 Add
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Low Motility: Transferring Montreal Playwright Stephen Orlov’s Sperm Count to Germany

From: Translating Canada

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The chapter sheds light on some of the problems that transatlantic, transcultural translation projects can face. It is meant to provide an impulse for other translators and translation scholars … 14 $1.40 Add
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natuur/nature

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

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This chapter examines the poems of Ida Gerhardt. 7 $0.70 Add
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Antonine Maillet in German: A Case Study

From: Translating Canada

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The Goncourt Prize always ensures international interest. In German-speaking countries, this particular award did not, however, garner much interest, nor did it lead to a German translation of … 9 $0.90 Add
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Corpora and Translation

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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Beginning with the word processors and the term banks of the 1970s, translators have turned to computers for assistance with at least three different tasks: documentary and terminological … 14 $1.96 Add
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Not a Madeleine Dunked in Tea

From: My Mother, My Translator

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Explores grief through food, music, and memory. Showcases how these facets of experience intersected with his grief. 16 $1.60 Add
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oud/old

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

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On the chronic abstraction of using a language learned after childhood. 3 $0.30 Add
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Restricted Codes and Transcoding

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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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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Cohesion and Coherence

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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Discusses cohesion in a text, provided by a network of lexical, grammatical, and other relationships that provide links in the surface structure of the text, as well as coherence in a text, which … 16 $1.92 Add
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Five Women

From: My Mother, My Translator

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Tells the stories of the women in his life, from his great grandmother to his sister. 21 $2.10 Add
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piano/piano

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

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The chapter explores Dutch etemology. 7 $0.70 Add
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The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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Dictionaries and corpora remain essentially different tools. Dictionaries chase a moving target (as Sue Atkins has said), corpora get closer to this moving target, but even they are always … 12 $1.68 Add