Crossing Barriers and Bridging Cultures(The Challenges of Multilingual Translation for the European Union)

Author: A. Tosi
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd

This text presents translators from different linguistic backgrounds discussing multilingual translation in the European Union. All articles stress the political dimension of multilingualism, and the professional role of the translator as communicator, on which much of the credibility of a union "speaking with one voice in many languages" will ultimately depend.

About the Author
Arturo Tosi was born and raised in Italy but has taught in British universities for many years. He has researched extensively into sociolinguistics, contact-linguistics, translation, multilingualism, language education and language policies in Europe. He has also published widely in the fields of bilingualism and bilingual education. He is Professor of Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London and is Visiting Professor of Sociolinguistics in Italy at the Universita' degli Studi di Siena

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Getting Started: A Newcomer's Guide to Translation and Interpretation.pdf

Publisher: ATA

I want to become a translator/interpreter. How should I go about it?
The American Translators Association (ATA) offers this booklet, a straightforward guide for newcomers to these professions.

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Language Processing in Discourse - A Key to Felici tous Translation - M. Doherty (2002).pdf

Author: Monika Doherty
Publisher: Routledge

Through extensive analysis of examples in German and English, the author demonstrates how analogous options of sentence structure must be surrendered in order to achieve felicitous translations. Two major aspects that determine the appropriateness of language use are examined: language processing and discourse-dependency. Essential reading for translation scholars and linguists involved in the comparative study of English and German, this book will also be of interest to scholars of psycholinguistics and cognitive science, as well as translators and linguists.

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Translation Quality Assessment MSc Thesis.pdf

Author: Hassan Tawbi
Publisher: University of Western Sydney, Macarthur

As yet, few explicit, practical and easy to implement marking scales for evaluating the quality of translations have been proposed . The purpose of this study is to introduce a new marking guide for making quantitative assessments of the quality of non-literary translations, and to test its practicality through a case study . On the basis of the results, I aim to make some generalizations about translation and translation quality assessment .

In chapter I I will introduce our proposal and mention the reasons for doing such a study .
Chapter II presents a definition of the notion of translation, and a brief review of the literature on translation quality assessment. In this review, we will discuss the early treatments which dealt with the evaluation of translations, showing their merits and defects . In chapter III we will develop our marking guidelines . Firstly, we will describe the marking procedures. Secondly, we will classify errors and give examples for each type . Thirdly, we will present the guidelines for the holistic subjective assessment . Finally, we will evaluate the marking guidelines and then discuss the outcome . Chapter IV contains a summary of the proposed model, and some general conclusions about translation quality assessment

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Translation Today - Trends and Perspectives - G. A nderman & M. Rogers (ed.) (2003).pdf

Author: Gunilla M. Anderman and Margaret Rogers
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited

Translation Today: Trends and Perspectives

Synopsis
This text provides a snapshot of issues reflecting the changing nature of translation studies at the beginning of a new millennium. Resulting from discussions between translation theorists from all over the world, topics covered include: the nature of translation; English as a "lingua franca"; public service translation and interpreting; assessment; and audio-visual translation. The first part of the work covers a discussion stimulated by Peter Newmark's paper, and the second part allows invited colleagues to develop his topics.

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Introducing Translation Studies - Theories And App lications - J. Munday (2001).pdf

Author: Jeremy Munday
Publisher: Routledge

Introducing Translation Studies - Theories And Applications 2001

This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory. Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and Spanish - and English translations are provided. A wide variety of text types is analysed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical text and a European Parliament speech. Each chapter includes the following features: * a table introducing key concepts * an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories * illustrative texts with translations * a chapter summary * discussion points and exercises. Including a general introduction, an extensive bibliography, and websites for further information, this is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives a balanced and comprehensive insight into translation studies.

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Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meanin g: Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in The ory, Adjudication and Political Practice.pdf

Author: Anne Wagner, Wouter Werner, Deborah Cao
Publisher: Springer

Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. In response to new problems, changing power structures, changing societal norms and new faces of injustice established doctrines are reconsidered, reformulated and partly replaced by competing doctrines and hypotheses. Given the relative indeterminacy of law, it is no surprise that the problem of interpretation has always been one of the focal points of attention for legal semiotics. Who has the power to define words and concepts? Who can successfully assume the power to speak on behalf of the legal community? Which methods are used to justify the power to define?

This book discusses the questions mentioned above from three, related perspectives:

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Legal theory (Part I). This part discusses how more traditional approaches have dealt with the problem of legal interpretation and indeterminacy, questions the methods applied in traditional legal theory and offers new theoretical tools to understand the problem of legal interpretation.
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Judicial reasoning (Part II). The insights discussed in Part I are refined using legal semiotics, speech act theory and rhetorics and applied to the legal reasoning of courts and tribunals either in common law and civil law traditions.
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Application of law in politics and diplomatic practice (Part III). Traditionally, the study of legal reasoning has focussed on the application of law by courts and tribunals. However, legal reasoning also takes place outside the courtroom and takes up in the political and diplomatic arena. Who is included and excluded by particular conceptions of law? How does law deal with the phenomenon of interculturality?

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Writing About Literature Essay and Translation Ski lls.pdf

Writing About Literature: Essay and Translation Skills for University Students of English and Foreign Literatures (Routledge Study Guides)
by Judith Woolf
Writing about Literature combines detailed practical and scholarly advice with a sense of the scope and creative possibilities of literary criticism, empowering the student reader to make his or her own discoveries and experiments with language. In addition, it gives valuable guidance on adult language learning and translation skills for students of foreign literature.

This handy, accessible guide covers all aspects of the essay-writing process, including:

* preliminary reading and choosing and researching a topic
* referencing and presentation
* computer use
* style, structure, vocabulary, grammar and spelling
* the art and craft of writing
* scholarly and personal insights into the problems and pleasures of writing about literature.

Written in an entertaining and informative way and containing a wealth of practical advice and scholarly insights, this wise, witty and helpful book should be on every literature student's bookshelf.

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Neubert, A. & Shreve G. (1992) Translation As Text Translation Studies.pdf

Translation As Text (Translation Studies 1)

Author: Neubert, Albrecht.; Shreve, Gregory M.
Publisher: Kent State University Press

Translation as Text is the direct successor of the volume Text and Translation, published as Uebersetzungswissenschaftliche Beitraege 8 in 1985. Positive response to the original monograph and its successful use as a reference in advanced translation classes in Germany and other countries encouraged us to extensively revise the volume and add new material. We have attempted to clarify the theoretical position and methodological assumptions that were implicit in the earlier version. A new first chapter places the volume in the context of the variety of modern approaches to translation. The monograph describes translation studies as the empirical study of the relationships among translator, the process of translation, and the text.

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Bielsa, Esperanca & Susan Bassnett (2009) Translat ion in Global News.pdf

Author: Bassnett/Bielsa
Publisher: Routledge

The mass media are of paramount importance in the formulation and transmission of messages about key developments of global significance, such as terrorism and the war in Iraq, yet the key mediating role of translation in the reception of speeches and addresses of figures like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein has remained largely invisible.

Incorporating the results of extensive fieldwork in key global news organizations such as Reuters, Agence France Press and Inter Press Service, this book addresses central issues relating to the new pressures on translation arising from globalization, analyzing new texts from major news agencies as well as alternative media organisations. Written by a leading figure in the field of literature and of translation studies, this book presents close readings of different English versions of key Arabic texts circulated in Western media to demonstrate the ways in which a cultural and religious Other is framed in different media.

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Byrne, Jody (2006) Technical Translation Usability Strategies for Translating Technical Documentatio n.pdf

Author: Jody Byrne
Publisher: Springer

This book is an introduction to technical translation and usability for translators and researchers. It draws on a broad range of research and makes it both accessible and applicable to those involved in the practice and study of translation. After exploring various theoretical aspects of technical translation, readers learn how to improve and assess the quality of technical translations by using cognitive psychology, usability engineering and technical communication to develop skills which can be implemented during the text production stage of the translation process. A practical usability study is described to illustrate the theories, methods and benefits of usability engineering.

This book is unique in that it discusses technical translation from a theoretical and practical point of view. Without this book, translators and researchers would have to read numerous books in a wide range of areas.

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Lianeri, Alexandra & Vanda Zajko (2008) Translatio n & The Classics.pdf

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Lefevere, Andre (1992) Translation, History, Cultu re - A Sourcebook (Routledge).pdf

Author: Andre Lefevere (ed.)
Publisher: Routledge

Translation/History/Culture is a collection of the most important statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries--power, poetics, language, education--it contains many texts previously unavailable in English.As the first survey of its kind in both scope and selection, Translation/History/Culture argues that translation commands a central position in the shaping of European literature and cultures. It re-establishes in the reader's mind the unbroken continuity of the tradition of translation and reveals the topicality of many of the texts included. Serving as both a textbook of translation history and as a starting point for further discussion about translation, it is a valuable addition to the shelves of literary historians, theorists of literature, students and teachers of comparative literature and cultural studies, and scholars of translation.

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Cronin, Michael (2009) Translation Goes to the Mov ies.pdf

Author: Michael Cronin
Publisher: Routledge

By tapping into this largely unexplored yet potent intertextual resource, Cronin contextualizes issues of translation and brings alive the enduring engagement of one of the most important cultural media of our time with life on a multilingual and multi-ethnic planet.Translation goes to the Movies demonstrates how translation has been an abiding concern of film makers dealing with questions of culture, identity, migration, conflict, representation and globalization. The work not only introduces the reader to a number of core concerns in translation theory and practice but it also shows how these issues matter greatly in the wider culture and society as presented on screen.

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Katan, David (1999) Translating cultures - An intr oduction for translators interpreters and mediator s.pdf

Author: David Katan
Publisher: St. Jerome Publishing

Translating cultures - An introduction for translators, interpreters and mediators

As the 21st century gets into stride so does the call for a discipline combining culture and translation. This second edition of Translating Cultures retains its original aim of putting some rigour and coherence into these fashionable words and lays the foundation for such a discipline.

The core of the book provides a model for teaching culture to translators, interpreters and other mediators. It introduces the reader to current understanding about culture and aims to raise awareness of the fundamental role of culture in constructing, perceiving and translating reality. Culture is perceived throughout as a system for orienting experience, and a basic presupposition is that the organization of experience is not 'reality', but rather a simplified model and a 'distortion' which varies from culture to culture. Each culture acts as a frame within which external signs or 'reality' are interpreted. The approach is interdisciplinary, taking ideas from contemporary translation theory, anthropology, Bateson's logical typing and metamessage theories, Bandler and Grinder's NLP meta-model theory, and Hallidayan functional grammar.

Authentic texts and translations are offered to illustrate the various strategies that a cultural mediator can adopt in order to make the different cultural frames he or she is mediating between more explicit.

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