Explores the history of Mark Twain's reception in Japan in the spheres of books, children's magazines, and anime, the impact of Japanese translations on Twain's public image, how Japanese culture has transformed Japanese versions of Twain's works, and how Japan is culturally inf…
China's emergence has generated a wave of interest in interpreting and interpreter training. First published as a "Special Issue of Interpreting" (11:2, 2009) this collection of papers by six leading researchers from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas, some bas…
This text presents a systematic investigation of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, it finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and a uniq…
Key Terms in Translation Studies gives a comprehensive overview of the concepts which students of translation studies are likely to encounter during their study, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The book includes definitions of key terms within the discipline, as we…
As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. It joins the other signs of maturation such as Summer Schools, the development of academic curricula, historical surveys, journals, book ser…
This book covers the history of the theory and practice of translation from Cicero to the digital age. It examines all major processes of translation, offers critical accounts of current research, and compares competing theoretical perspectives. It considers all kinds of transla…
Children?s classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recognized as literary achievements that from a translator?s point of view are no less demanding than?serious? (adult) literature. The pres…
Deconstruction and Translation explains ways in which many practical and theoretical problems of translation can be rethought in the light of insights from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. If there is no one origin, no transcendent meaning, and thus no stable source text,…
