Meaning in Translation

Meaning in Translation
Title Meaning in Translation PDF eBook
Author Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 488
Release 2010
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9783631601051

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.".. collection of selected articles from the joint International Maastricht-odz Duo Colloquia on Translation and Meaning ..."--Introduction.

Translation and Meaning

Translation and Meaning
Title Translation and Meaning PDF eBook
Author Marcel Thelen
Publisher Lodz Studies in Language
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Semantics
ISBN 9783631663905

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This book presents new and innovative ideas on the didactics of translation and interpreting. They include assessment methods and criteria, assessment of competences, graduate employability, placements, skills labs, the perceived skills gap between training and profession, the teaching of terminology, and curriculum design.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Title Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary PDF eBook
Author Kate Woodford
Publisher
Pages 1550
Release 2003
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780521824231

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The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.

Translation and Ethnography

Translation and Ethnography
Title Translation and Ethnography PDF eBook
Author Tullio Maranh‹o
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 256
Release 2003-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780816523030

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To most people, translation means making the words of one language understandable in another; but translation in a broader sense-seeing strangeness and incorporating it into one's understanding-is perhaps the earliest task of the human brain. This book illustrates the translation process in less-common contexts: cultural, religious, even the translation of pain. Its original contributions seek to trace human understanding of the self, of the other, and of the stranger by discovering how we bridge gaps within or between semiotic systems. Translation and Ethnography focuses on issues that arise when we attempt to make significant thematic or symbolic elements of one culture meaningful in terms of another. Its chapters cover a wide range of topics, all stressing the interpretive practices that enable the approximation of meaning: the role of differential power, of language and so-called world view, and of translation itself as a metaphor of many contemporary cross-cultural processes. The topics covered here represent a global sample of translation, ranging from Papua New Guinea to South America to Europe. Some of the issues addressed include postcolonial translation/transculturation from the perspective of colonized languages, as in the Mexican Zapatista movement; mis-translations of Amerindian conceptions and practices in the Amazon, illustrating the subversive potential of anthropology as a science of translation; Ethiopian oracles translating divine messages for the interpretation of believers; and dreams and clowns as translation media among the Gamk of Sudan. Anthropologists have long been accustomed to handling translation chains; in this book they open their diaries and show the steps they take toward knowledge. Translation and Ethnography raises issues that will shake up the most obdurate, objectivist translators and stimulate scholars in sociolinguistics, communication, ethnography, and other fields who face the challenges of conveying meaning across human boundaries.

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Title Fruit of the Drunken Tree PDF eBook
Author Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Publisher Anchor
Pages 323
Release 2018-07-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0385542739

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Seven-year-old Chula lives a carefree life in her gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside her walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar reigns, capturing the attention of the nation. “Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author’s voice—she has something powerful to say.” —Entertainment Weekly When her mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied neighborhood, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. Petrona is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy. Inspired by the author's own life, Fruit of the Drunken Tree is a powerful testament to the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation.

Fundamentals of Translation

Fundamentals of Translation
Title Fundamentals of Translation PDF eBook
Author Sonia Colina
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 337
Release 2015-04-02
Genre Education
ISBN 1107035392

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Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic theory of translation, with numerous examples and exercises.

Meaning-based Translation

Meaning-based Translation
Title Meaning-based Translation PDF eBook
Author Mildred L. Larson
Publisher
Pages 616
Release 1998
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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Emphasizing the value of idiomatic and unconstrained language, this introductory textbook begins with an overview of the fundamental principles of translation. The rest of the chapters expand and illustrate these principles with examples from a wide range of languages--particularly Asian, African, and Amerindian languages. The author uses the recently established principles of text-linguistics in her explanations of the interplay of syntax, semantics, and communicative force through stress and variations of word order in the composition of a text. She also presents a thorough treatment of collocations and the semantic distortions of literal translation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR