Resources for Translation Studies: Tertiary Sources

This groundbreaking five-volume history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers.

With contributions from an impressive list of academic and independent scholars and translators, the over 600 entries in this encyclopedia cover translation into English of works of literature, from ancient to modern, written in "the principal world languages." Overview articles on languages, groups of writers, and genres include topics such as Arabic, modern Greek women writers, and haiku...The Library Journal

This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literatures of the world into English-speaking culture.

Coursebook for any student studying in this field. Offers a practical and theoretical guide to translation studies, and provides an important foundation for training professional translators.

Key textbook, provides a guide to the theories and concepts in the field of translation studies.

Introduce students, researchers and practitioners to the relatively new, and now fast developing, discipline of Interpreting Studies.

Covers linguistics, context, culture, politics and ethics in translation studies, including contributions on cognitive theories, technology, interpreting and audiovisual translation.

Provides students with a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in thinking about translation, both within and outside translation studies.

Survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on twentieth-century developments. With introductory essays prefacing each section, the book places a wide range of seminal and innovative readings within their thematic, cultural and historical contexts.

Comprehensive overview of interpreting studies drawing together key articles. Provides an introduction and reference for students, researchers and practitioners.

Guide to key approaches in translation studies. The book is divided into nine specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theater and opera, screen, and politics.

Establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application.

This guide concentrates on developing sensitivity to text-types and a deeper understanding of the demand that a given text-type makes on the translator. Invaluable for students and teachers of translation.

Pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language.

Includes applications and strategies in the field of media translation, specifically Arabic and English.

Clear explanations, discussion, examples and exercises enable students to acquire the skills necessary for tackling a broad range of translation problems.

A series of coursebooks for self-learners and teachers of translation. Each volume focuses on a specific aspect of professional translation practice, including legal translation, medical translation, European Union texts, screen translation in its different forms; and to specific aspects of professional practices, including revising and editing, electronic tools...Routledge.