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Practical Guide To Scientific And Technical Translation, A: Publishing, Style And Terminology

Author : James Brian Alexander Mitchell

Publisher : World Scientific

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 14,70 MB

Release : 2022-01-25

Category : Education

ISBN : 9811241570

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Book Description

Are you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language foreign to you or translation from an existing text. The book is not intended as a text on English grammar but as a troubleshooting guide to linguistic and style errors. We will help you overcome at least the most common problems here. Technical terminology searching and choice will also be covered with examples from a number of scientific (physics, chemistry) and engineering disciplines (aviation, transport, nuclear, environment, etc.), with advice on how to choose the right term for the right job. While the emphasis is on producing documents in English (the lingua franca of modern scientific literature), general translation concepts are also discussed. Hence, this book will also be useful to translators, and scientists who need to present their work in languages other than English.



Literary Translation

Author : Clifford E. Landers

Publisher : Multilingual Matters

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 41,75 MB

Release : 2001-09-13

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1847695604

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In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language pair. This guide proposes to help the translator navigate through them. Written in a witty and easy to read style, the book’s hands-on approach will make it accessible to translators of any background. A significant portion of this Practical Guide is devoted to the question of how to go about finding an outlet for one’s translations.



A Practical Guide for Translators

Author : Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown

Publisher : Multilingual Matters

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 15,28 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9781853597299

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Directed at those studying languages and those with some language capability and thinking of a career change, this guide considers the practical aspects of the translation profession and how to set up a business.



Translation Practice in the Field

Author : Hanna Risku

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 41,59 MB

Release : 2019-08-07

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027262195

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This volume presents recent research that follows translators, interpreters and translation project managers into their various work contexts and environments. It extends the scope of analysis of translation research from individuals and texts to collectives in their social and material worlds. Particular attention is paid to current translation and interpreting practice, the genesis of translations, the handling and completion of translation projects in real workplaces and the factors that shape these translation/interpreting situations. Covering fields as diverse as technical and literary translation, transcreation and church interpreting, the chapters show just how varied translation and interpreting processes and workplaces can prove to be. They provide new insights into the effects of the increasing use of technology in the translation workplace and the manifold requirements placed on translators and interpreters in a heterogeneous and fast-changing field of practice. Originally published as special issue of Translation Spaces 6:1 (2017).



An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting

Author : Chan Sinwai

Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Page : 596 pages

File Size : 16,98 MB

Release : 2019-01-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9629968398

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As a sequel to?An Encyclopedia of Translation: ChineseEnglish EnglishChinese, which was published in 1995, this volume,?An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting, focuses on practical translation and interpreting, the two emerging areas of increasing importance in recent decades. Some chapters in this volume are illustrated with examples in translation between Chinese and English. Scholars and experts from China, France, Hong Kong, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States share with us their experiences in translation or interpreting practice. This encyclopedia should be of great interest to both specialists and general readers.



Translating Change

Author : Ann Pattison

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 36,23 MB

Release : 2022-03-18

Category :

ISBN : 9780367683252

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Translating Change explores and analyses the impact of changes in society, culture and language on the translation and interpreting process and product. This innovative textbook is key reading for both students and translators or interpreters, in training and in practice.



Literary Translator Studies

Author : Klaus Kaindl

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 323 pages

File Size : 22,1 MB

Release : 2021-04-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027260273

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This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory, methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators, their roles, identities, and personalities. The book introduces pertinent translator-centered approaches in four sections: historical-biographical studies, social-scientific and process-oriented methods, and approaches that use paratexts or translations to study literary translators. Drawing on a variety of concepts, such as identity, role, self, posture, habitus, and voice, the various chapters showcase forgotten literary translators and shed new light on some well-known figures; they examine literary translators not as functioning units but as human beings in their uniqueness. Literary Translator Studies as a subdiscipline of Translation Studies demonstrates how exploring the cultural, social, psychological, and cognitive facets of translatorial subjects contributes to a holistic understanding of translation.



Translation and Practice Theory

Author : Maeve Olohan

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 35,29 MB

Release : 2020-10-13

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1315514753

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Translation and Practice Theory is a timely and theoretically innovative study linking professional practice and translation theory, showing the usefulness of a practice-theoretical approach in addressing some of the challenges that the professional world of translation is currently facing, including, for example, the increasing deployment of machine translation. Focusing on the key aspects of translation practices, Olohan provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of how those practices are performed, as translators interact with people, technologies and other material resources in the translation workplace. The practice-theoretical perspective helps to describe and explain the socio-material complexities of present-day commercial translation practice but also offers a productive approach for studies of translation and interpreting practices in other settings and periods. This first book-length exploration of translation through the lens of practice theory is key reading for advanced students and researchers of Translation Theory. It will also be of interest in the area of professional communication within Communication Studies and Applied Linguistics.



Translation: A Guide to the Practice of Crafting Target Texts

Author : Stella Cragie

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 43,68 MB

Release : 2019-11-18

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1000747352

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This practical guide by two experienced translators and translation tutors explores aspects of time, context and culture in a range of translated literary texts, including novels, memoirs, poems and plays. Reflective analytical sections are complemented by a variety of practical tasks that reflect the book’s craft-based approach. Providing a dual focus on both analysis and creativity, this volume helps readers to develop two different skill sets required for translation: deconstruction and reconstruction. To learn how to analyse or deconstruct a source text (ST), the tasks include translating and editing, comparison and analysis of source language (SL) texts and translations, and critiquing or improving target language (TL) texts produced by translators from different times. A range of creative writing challenges reveal the secrets writers use to hook their readers. Whatever language readers translate into, these insights will help them to find their own writer’s voice, making them better equipped to recreate another author’s voice, whatever the time or cultural context. This is the essential guide to improving target texts for all translators and students of translation.



Becoming a Translator

Author : Douglas Robinson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 49,74 MB

Release : 2004-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1134420536

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Robinson reveals how to translate faster and more accurately, how to deal with problems and stress, and how the market works. This second edition has been revised throughout, and includes an exploration of new technologies used by translators.