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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Telling Canada’s “Story” in German: Using Cultural Diplomacy to Achieve Soft Power From: Translating Canada View University of Ottawa Press	We want to understand why certain texts are selected for translation and why others are left aside. Which aesthetic, economic, or ideological considerations enter into the selection process? In …	Luise von Flotow	18	2007	$1.80 Add
From Terminological Relationships and Corpus-Based Methods for Discovering Them: An Assessment for Terminographers From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View University of Ottawa Press	Recent work in terminology shows an increasing interest in a largevariety of relationships between terms (qualified by authors as semantic,terminological, or conceptual). Hyperonymy and meronymy …	Elizabeth Marshman; Marie-Claude L’Homme	14	2006	$1.96 Add
From Tests as Power Tools: Looking Back, Looking Forward From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	In this chapter I discuss current uses of language tests in education and society, arguing that tests have become primary tools used by policy makers to resolve and reform educational, political, …	Elana Shohamy	12	2007	$1.20 Add
From NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ …	Michael Temelini	29	2021	$2.90 Add
From The “AlterNative” Frontier: Native Canadian Writing in German/y From: Translating Canada View University of Ottawa Press	This chapter undertakes an empirical survey of existing German Translations of Canadian First Nations literature. In addition, it explores the reciprocal influence that the image of “the …	Eva Gruber	32	2007	$3.20 Add
From The Challenge of (Diagnostic) Testing: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	The language testing literature is confused about the nature of diagnostic tests. Diagnosis is a frequently used but under-problematized concept and a debate is needed that might lead to a …	J. Charles Alderson	19	2007	$1.90 Add
From The Coming of Age for Research on Test-Taking Strategies From: Language Testing Reconsidered View University of Ottawa Press	In this selective look at research on test-taking strategies over the last twenty-five years, brief mention is made of the beginnings of test-taker strategy research and then important …	Andrew D. Cohen	23	2007	$2.30 Add
From The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View University of Ottawa Press	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 …	Krista Varantola	12	2006	$1.68 Add
From NEW! The Fohn From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Recounts the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, his experience with it, and the connection to those family members lost to the Spanish Flu.	Jaspreet Singh	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From The Homeland is Where None of This Can Happen From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets View Collection: Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts Goose Lane Editions	This chapter describes the experiences of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish from the 1940s to the present.	Marcello Di Cintio	25	2018	$2.50 Add
From The Importance of Prose Translation From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View University of Ottawa Press	No one would deny the difficulties involved in translating into a foreign language, and yet it is a possibility. The practice is necessary in most countries. This has always been the case, and it …	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	4	1996	$0.48 Add
From The Importance of Translation From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View University of Ottawa Press	The importance of translation should not be underestimated, particularly in a world that has to learn to husband its resources as one world or perish in the attempt. Without translators, …	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	2	1996	$0.24 Add
From NEW! The Last Essay From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Confronts Singh’s mother’s death and the last essay she left him for her memoirs.	Jaspreet Singh	14	2021	$1.40 Add
From The Linguist of Ancient and Medieval Days From: Interpreters as Diplomats View University of Ottawa Press	As anthropologists know, even the most primitive of peoples maintained an intertribal communication which must be deemed an elementary form of diplomacy. But since not all tribes spoke the same …	Ruth Roland	31	1999	$4.03 Add
The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation The Nuremberg Trial University of Ottawa Press	This book offers the first complete analysis of the emergence of simultaneous interpretation a the Nuremburg Trail and the individuals who made the process possible. Francesca Gaiba offers new …	Francesca Gaiba	191	1998	View
From The “Other Women”: Canadian Women Writers Blazing a Trail into Germany From: Translating Canada View University of Ottawa Press	This chapter is concerned with German responses to the wave of translations of English Canadian women writers, a response that, in its enthusiasm, undoubtedly had a strong effect on the …	Brita Oeding; Luise von Flotow	14	2007	$1.40 Add