Author: David Katan
Publisher: St Jerome Publishing
Keywords: cultures, translating
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1998-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1900650142
ISBN-13: 9781900650144

Author: Rita Kothari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.
Keywords: india, translating
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 8175963050
ISBN-13: 9788175963054

Post nineteen eighties, what made English translation from Indian languages a culturally desirable activity? This question leads Kothari to examine the changing cultural universe of urban, English-speaking middle class in India. She examines in detail readership patterns, attitudes to English, and the course of translation studies in general. The comfort with which English is used with an Indian language as in "Yeh Dil Maange More" or "Hungry Kya" reflects a sense of familiarity that has been made with English. From this broader context of bilingualism in the first part of the book, Kothari mo

Author: Deborah Cao
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: translation, topics, law, translating
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1853599549
ISBN-13: 9781853599545

The book examines legal translation in its many facets from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering both theoretical and practical grounds and linguistic as well as legal issues. It analyses the basic skills and competence of the legal translator and various types of legal texts and is useful for translators, lawyers, linguistic and legal scholars and other professionals working in bilingual/multilingual legal context.

Author: Joe Wilson
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Keywords: tibetan, buddhism, translating
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 1992-05-25
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0937938343
ISBN-13: 9780937938348

The grammar, syntax, and technical vocabulary of classical Tibetan used in Buddhist works.

Author: Burton Raffel
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: prose, translating, art
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 1994-04
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0271010800
ISBN-13: 9780271010809

This text presents, for both the specialist and non-specialist, the core strategies employed by the author in translating a variety of important prose texts. Examples of prose are given from such books as "Madame Bovary", "Germinal" and "Death in Venice".

Authors:Eugene Chen Eoyang, Lin Yao-Fu,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: literature, chinese, translating
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0253319587
ISBN-13: 9780253319586

There is no greater challenge to a translator than the rendering of Chinese, ancient or modern, into English. In this fascinating volume, world-famous scholar-translators talk about their craft from a variety of points of view, confronting key issues of both general and specific nature and imparting some of their joys and the successes which can be achieved.The contributors are Cyril Birch, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., David R. Knechtges, Richard B. Mather, Glen Dudbridge, James I. Crump, Jr., Robert Joe Cutter and William G. Crowell, Stephen H. West, John Minford, Dominic Cheung, Joseph S. M.

Author: Clive Scott
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: literature, european, baudelaire, translating
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0859896587
ISBN-13: 9780859896580

This work is the record of an apprenticeship in translating Baudelaire, and in translating poetry more generally. Re-assessing the translator’s task and art, Clive Scott explores various theoretical approaches as he goes in search of his own style of translation. In the course of the book, versions of 17 Baudelaire poems are offered, with detailed evaluations of the poems and the translations. The book considers two questions: What form should the criticism of translation take, if the critic is to do justice to the translator’s project? How can a translator persuade readers to resp