Translation
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Preface |
Preface | Ruth Roland | 2 | 1999 | $0.26 Add |
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From  Telling Canada’s “Story” in German: Using Cultural Diplomacy to Achieve Soft PowerFrom: Translating Canada |
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 |
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From  The Importance of Prose Translation |
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 |
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From  The Semantic Apparatus of Guy Miège’s New Dictionary French and English, with Another English and French |
In the following pages, we will look at the work of one specific lexicographer, Guy Miìge. Miìge’s first bilingual dictionary, entitled A New Dictionary French and English, … | Aline Francoeur | 12 | 2006 | $1.68 Add |
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From  NEW! UnfinishedFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Reveals that Singh’s mother passed away before finishing her memoir, prompting him to undertake a new project. | Jaspreet Singh | 1 | 2021 | $0.10 Add |
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From “Two Solitudes”? Anglo-Canadian Literature in Translation in the Two GermaniesFrom: Translating Canada |
The two Germanies that were reunited in 1990 had different ideological outlooks on English literatures and their dissemination. | Barbara Korte | 25 | 2007 | $2.50 Add |
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From Can Translation be Taught? |
Translation programs can help students to improve their translating skills. The foundation of schools of translation around the world suggests that this principie is accepted by a wide body of … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 5 | 1996 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! chronisch/chronicFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
This chapter explores what Dutch sounds like to English speakers. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Description of the Interepreting System |
The eyes of the world were pointed on the crowded Nuremberg courtroom, and for the first time in history they marveled at something unknown: simultaneous interpretation. | Francesca Gaiba | 35 | 1998 | $4.55 Add |
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From  Relevance in Dictionary Making: Sense Indicators in the Bilingual Entry |
Lexicographic relevance became a hot topic with the development of the text corpus: this is now, for many lexicographers, the principal source of information about their headwords. | Beryl T. Sue Atkins | 19 | 2006 | $2.66 Add |
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From NEW! Some PhotonsFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
A poem about eyes. | Jaspreet Singh | 1 | 2021 | $0.10 Add |
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From The Linguist of Ancient and Medieval Days |
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 |
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From Biased Books by Harmless Drudges: How Dictionaries Are Influenced by Social Values |
As keepers of our language, monolingual dictionaries are important cultural objects and therefore must adhere to certain social rules. Some of those rules can affect the forms of the definitions … | Kristen Mackintosh | 19 | 2006 | $2.66 Add |
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From NEW! draak/dragonFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
In this chapter, the author looks back on her time as an ESL student. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From Europe and the New World, to 1919 |
We have seen how bilingual Greek scholars, steeped in Byzantine diplomatic lore, relocated to the four corners of Europe and, in the greatest numbers, to Venice. From them the Venetians learned … | Ruth Roland | 41 | 1999 | $5.33 Add |
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From NEW! FaceFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Relates the turmoil of Singh’s decision to remove his turban and cut his hair as a teen–the trauma it caused his mom, and the pain he suffered as consequence. Speculates on the … | Jaspreet Singh | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
