Language arts & disciplines / Translating & Interpreting

Talk Dirty French

by Alexis Munier

Can't quite come up with the right French quip or four-letter word? With Talk Dirty: French, you'll be able to put your (middle) finger on it. Each entry provides an individual foreign gem, a useful French sentence...

In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means

by Esther Allen & Susan Bernofsky

The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world’s most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan,...

A to Z of Arabic - English - Arabic Translation

by Ronak Husni & Daniel L. Newman

The A to Z highlights common pitfalls faced by translators working on both Arabic–English and English–Arabic texts. Each translation problem is carefully contextualized and illustrated with examples drawn...

Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1850

by Alison Martin & Susan Pickford

This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how...

Introducing Interpreting Studies

by Franz Pöchhacker

This book is the first of its type, designed to introduce students, researchers and practitioners to the relatively new, and now fast developing, discipline of Interpreting Studies.

Written by a leading researcher...

Translation in Theatre and Performance

by Silvia Bigliazzi, Paola Ambrosi & Peter Kofler

This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and translation as a cooperative effort on the part of the translator,...

A Practical Guide for Translators: Fifth Edition

by Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown

This is the fifth revised edition of the best-selling A Practical Guide for Translators. It looks at the profession of translator on the basis of developments over the last few years and encourages both practitioners...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

by Carmen Millán & Francesca Bartrina

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies.

Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume...

Women as Translators in Early Modern England

by Deborah Uman

This book considers both the practice and representation of translation in works penned by early modern women including Margaret Tyler, Mary Sidney Herbert, Anne Lock, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn.

Quality In Professional Translation: Assessment and Improvement

by Joanna Drugan

How do translation companies, multilingual international organizations and individual translators measure and improve the quality of their translations? This book reports on the range of approaches to quality...

Self-Translation: Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture

by Anthony Cordingley

Self-Translation: Brokering originality in hybrid

culture provides critical, historical and interdisciplinary analyses of

self-translators and their works. It investigates the challenges which the

bilingual oeuvre...

Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice

by Lawrence Venuti

In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000.

The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with...

Translation and Globalization

by Michael Cronin

Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in...

Colloquial Polish

by B.W. Mazur

This new edition of the best-selling Polish course for beginners has been completely rewritten to make learning the language easier and more enjoyable than before.

Written by an experienced teacher and author,...

Music, Text and Translation

by Helen Julia Minors

Expanding the notion of translation, this book specifically focuses on

the transferences between music and text. The concept of ’translation’

is often limited solely to language transfer. It is, however, a...

Talk Dirty Spanish: Beyond Mierda: The curses, slang, and street lingo you need to Know when you speak espanol

by Alexis Munier & Laura Martinez

AQuZ pasa, gringo?

Whether at a cantina in Mexico or a discoth?que in Spain, you better know how to shoot the s#*!-luckily for you, Talk Dirty: Spanish dishes all the dirty sayings in a variety of dialects. Packed...

Performing Without a Stage: The Art of Literary Translation

by Robert Wechsler

A lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of foreign fiction and poetry who wonder what it takes to translate, how the art of literary translation has changed over...

Interpretation: Techniques and Exercises

by James Nolan

In recent decades the explosive growth of globalization and regional integration has fuelled parallel growth in multilingual conferences. Although conference interpreting has come of age as a profession, interpreter...

Language Processing in Discourse: A Key to Felicitous Translation

by Monika Doherty

This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most...

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

by Nataly Kelly & Jost Zetzsche

Translation. It’s everywhere we look, but seldom seen—until now. Found in Translation reveals the surprising and complex ways that translation shapes the world. Covering everything from holy books to hurricane...