Translation

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The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate

The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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
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The Fohn
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The Fohn

From: My Mother, My Translator

Recounts the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, his experience with it, and the connection to those family members lost to the Spanish Flu. 7 $0.70 Add
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The Importance of Prose Translation

The Importance of Prose Translation

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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 … 4 $0.48 Add
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The Importance of Translation

The Importance of Translation

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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, … 2 $0.24 Add
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The Last Essay
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The Last Essay

From: My Mother, My Translator

Confronts Singh’s mother’s death and the last essay she left him for her memoirs. 14 $1.40 Add
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The Linguist of Ancient and Medieval Days

The Linguist of Ancient and Medieval Days

From: Interpreters as Diplomats

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 … 31 $4.03 Add
The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation

The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation

The Nuremberg Trial

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 … 191 View
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The “Other Women”: Canadian Women Writers Blazing a Trail into Germany

The “Other Women”: Canadian Women Writers Blazing a Trail into Germany

From: Translating Canada

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 … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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The Semantic Apparatus of Guy Miège’s New Dictionary French and English, with Another English and French

The Semantic Apparatus of Guy Miège’s New Dictionary French and English, with Another English and French

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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, … 12 $1.68 Add
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The Signalman's Son
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The Signalman’s Son

From: My Mother, My Translator

A poem about hearing. 3 $0.30 Add
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The Teaching Context

The Teaching Context

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Having compared student translator competence with ideal translator competence within the teaching context, it is now possible to adapt the list of general translation teaching objectives to the … 4 $0.48 Add
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tijd/time
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tijd/time

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

On photography, and the progress of time. 7 $0.70 Add
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Translated or Traduced? Canadian Literary and Political Theory in a German Context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor

Translated or Traduced? Canadian Literary and Political Theory in a German Context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor

From: Translating Canada

This chapter reveals that the importation, translation, marketing, and reception of English Canadian children’s literature in Germany have been governed by two major principles: first, up … 31 $3.10 Add
Translating Canada

Translating Canada

In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of … ; 351 View
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Translating the Canadian Short Story into German

Translating the Canadian Short Story into German

From: Translating Canada

While paying attention to economic and marketing strategies in connection with literary and cultural factors for the translation of Canadian short stories into German, I base this chapter on six … ; ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Translation Memory and “Text”

Translation Memory and “Text”

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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