Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Translating & Interpreting

In translating Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century Histoires ou contes du temps pass?, avec des Moralit's into English, Angela Carter worked to modernize the language and message of the tales before rewriting many of them for her own famous collection of fairy tales for adults, The Bloody Chamber, published two years later. In Reading, Translating, Rewriting: Angela Carter's Translational Poetics, author Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Roch?re delves into Carter's The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1977) to illustrate that this translation project had a...

Learning the lingo used in the United States can be hard enough for a native speaker, but it's even more daunting for immigrants. Jimmy Gyasi Boateng, a native of Ghana, has been living in the US since 1978-long enough to successfully adapt to life in a new place. Determining how to use vocabulary has been critical to his success.

Learn how to use certain words and phrases and overcome problems that confront many speakers of English as a second language with this guidebook. You'll discover how to use slang properly-and at the right times; adapt to a new style of speaking English; and...

Lexiographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field.
The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented...

"Another View" examines the impact of the foreign in the context of non-native prose writing and its implications for literature in translation. Containing significant debut translations into English from such authors as Herta M?ller and Yoko Tawada, " Another View" also serves as an anthology demonstrating the potential for new directions in literary translation, heightening and tracing the originals' textuality, flow, and accent.

Used in sign language interpreter training programs worldwide, Reading Between the Signs is a resource for students, working interpreters and other professionals. This important new edition retains practical techniques that enable interpreters to effectively communicate...

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It offers a descriptive analysis of the industry understood as a global phenomenon in entertainment and aims to explain the norms governing present industry practices, as well as game localisation processes. Additionally, it discusses particular translation issues that are unique to the multichannel nature of video games, in which verbal and nonverbal signs must be cohesively combined with interactivity to achieve maximum playability and immerse players in the game s virtual world. Although...

Most of the poem purports to be a prophecy by the mythical Trojan princess, Kassandra, the most beautiful of the daughters of King Priam, and her prophecy ranges from the Trojan War to the Roman defeat of Macedon in 197 BC, which took place in the poet's own time. The poem's importance arises from the light which it sheds on Greek religion (in...

Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a collection of essays that explore various ways in which inscriptions can help students reconstruct and understand Greek History.

In order to engage with the study of epigraphy, this collection is divided into two...

Translating Religion advances thinking about translation as a critical category in religious studies, combining theoretical reflection about processes of translation in religion with focused case studies that are international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious. By operating with broad conceptions of both religion and translation, this volume makes clear that processes of translation, broadly construed, are everywhere in both religious life and the study of religion; at the same time, the theory and practice of translation and the advancement of translation studies as a field...