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1	Just Say NU: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) more books like this by Michael Wex (Read by) add to wishlist From the author of the hilarious bestseller "Born to Kvetch" comes an indispensable guide to the Yiddish language. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	French for Le Snob: Adding Panache to Your Everyday Conversations more books like this by Yvette Reche add to wishlist Designed to enable quick-witted English speakers to use the many French loanwords of the English vocabulary with an impeccable French pronunciation, this book details and defines approximately 2,500 French terms that have become a part of the English lexicon. Written for sophisticated English speakers who enjoy being in the limelight as they ... see all copies from $2.84! new only from $4.82! \| SVS
3	Cryptanalysis more books like this by Helen Fouche Gaines add to wishlist Thorough, systematic introduction to serious cryptography, especially strong in modern forms of cipher solution used by experts. Simple and advanced methods. 166 specimens to solve -- with solutions. see all copies from $2.65! new only from $5.58! \| SVS
4	The Translation Studies Reader more books like this by Lawrence Venuti (Editor) add to wishlist In this, the first comprehensive reader in translation studies, Lawrence Venuti guides the reader through the varying approaches to translation studies in the latter half of the twentieth century. Chronologically ordered and divided into clear sections, Venuti has gathered key essays, articles and book extracts together in one definitive volume, ... see all copies from $34.95! new only from $43.23! \| SVS
5	Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter add to wishlist Douglas Hofstadterauthor of the Pulitzer Prizewinner Gdel, Escher, Bach and a select group of translators, as well as three computer programs, translate a short poem by sixteenth-century French poet Clment Marot from its native tongue into English. In analyzing these translations, each distinct and delightful in its own right, translation becomes ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $15.20! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications more books like this by Jeremy Munday add to wishlist This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory. Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and ... see all copies from $28.56! new only from $28.56! \| SVS
7	After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation more books like this by Mr. George Steiner add to wishlist In this book--considered by many a modern classic on translation--Steiner proposes that a language creates a core of common knowledge among its speakers, and that this knowledge is inaccessible to non-speakers. Translation, then, raises questions not only of diction and grammar but of epistemology and phenomenology. see all copies from $3.31! new only from $13.58! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Translator's Handbook more books like this by Morry Sofer add to wishlist Everything an aspiring as well as an experienced translator needs to know -- from translation techniques to Internet sites for translators, from dictionaries to work sources. Now in its fourth revised edition, this book has been popular since 1997 with translators world-wide. Develop you own language and writing skills in the translation field. ... see all copies from $12.57! new only from $16.28! \| SVS
9	The Craft of Translation more books like this by John Biguenet (Editor), Rainer Schulte (Editor) add to wishlist These essays by distinguished translators offer insight into the demands of their art: the comprehensive scholarship to prepare to translate a work and the broad creativity needed to recreate the text in a new language. see all copies from $6.38! new only from $17.71! \| SVS
10	Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida more books like this by John Biguenet (Editor), Rainer Schulte (Editor) add to wishlist Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in thinking about translation and offer strong individual ... see all copies from $10.77! new only from $10.78! \| SVS
11 view cover	Interpreting as a Discourse Process more books like this by Cynthia B Roy add to wishlist This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing ccommunication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event in order to offer a definition of interpreted events, describe the process of taking turns with an interpreter, and ... see all copies from $53.54! new only from $53.54! \| SVS
12	The Craft & Context of Translation more books like this by William Arrowsmith (Editor), Roger Shattuck (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation more books like this by Mona Baker, Baker Mona add to wishlist This bestselling coursebook addresses the need for a systematic approach to training in translation studies by drawing on key areas in modern linguistic theory and relating them systematically to a number of translation problems and strategies. The strategies are identified by an examination of authentic examples of translated texts in a variety ... see all copies from $26.50! new only from $28.51! \| SVS
14 view cover	Translation Power Subversion more books like this by Roman Alvarez Rodriguez add to wishlist This is a study of the relationship between translation, culture and counterculture, presenting a political and ideological vision of translating. Offering an approach to the cultural turn in Translation Studies at the end of the century, the book endeavours to explore the closer links between cultural studies and translation. It presents the ... see all copies from $22.91! new only from $30.99! \| SVS
15 view cover	Translation Studies more books like this by Susan Bassnett add to wishlist In Translation Studies Susan Bassnett tackles the crucial problems of translation and offers a history of translation theory, beginning with the ancient Romans and encompassing key twentieth-century structuralist work. She then explores specific problems of literary translation through a close, practical analysis of texts, and concludes with ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $28.56! \| SVS
16 view cover	Translating the Garden more books like this by M R Ghanoonparvar add to wishlist Translating a work of literature from one language to another is an art form, in which the translated work becomes a "conduit" through which the reader of one language may pass into the cultural world of another. For the translator, the process of translation offers an intimate experience of the text that is perhaps unavailable even to the author. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
17 view cover	Interpreting Studies Reader more books like this by Franz Pochhacker (Editor), Miriam Shlesinger (Editor) add to wishlist The Interpreting Studies Reader is the definitive guide to the growing area of interpreting studies. Spanning the multiple and diverse approaches to interpreting, it draws together the key articles in the field and puts them in their thematic and social contexts. This is a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of interpreting studies and the new ... see all copies from $43.07! new only from $43.07! \| SVS
18	Eight Stages of Translation more books like this by Robert W. Bly add to wishlist see all copies from $14.86!
19 view cover	The Translator's Turn more books like this by Professor Douglas Robinson add to wishlist "Robinson's book is original and stimulating, and I suspect it will remain a provocative landmark in its field for some time to come."--Steven Rendall, 'Philosophy and Literature. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Translation Spectrum: Essays in Theory and Practice more books like this by Marilyn Gaddis Rose (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.90! new only from $21.34! \| first editions
21 view cover	Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies more books like this by Mona Baker (Editor) add to wishlist The Encyclopedia is a practical and unique resource in a single and accessible volume and is the first encyclopedia of translation studies ever to have been published. It is divided into two parts and is ordered alphabetically for ease of reference: * Part I (General) covers the conceptual framework of the discipline. Categories of entries include ... see all copies from $31.08! new only from $34.52! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Toward a Science of Translating: With Special Reference to Principles and Procedures Involved in Bible Translating (Second Edition) more books like this by Eugene Albert Nida add to wishlist Written by a linguist and anthropologist with 40 years' experience in the field of language and religion, this work describes the major components of translating, setting the translating into the context of historical changes in principles and procedures over the last two centuries. With an emphasis on texts being understood within their cultural ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $77.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature more books like this by Peter Seitel add to wishlist This volume describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders of a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $18.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Translator as Communicator more books like this by Basil Hatim, Ian Mason add to wishlist By taking an integrated approach to the practice of translation, Hatim and Mason provide a refreshingly unprejudiced contribution to translation theory. They argue that the division of the subject into literary and non-literary, technical and non-technical and so on, is unhelpful and misleading. Instead of dwelling on these differentials, the ... see all copies from $45.99! new only from $45.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Experiences in Translation more books like this by Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen (Translator) add to wishlist In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also the translator of GA(c)rard de Nerval's Sylvie and Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style ... see all copies from $11.48! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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