Translation and Interpretation Studies

Comprehensive guide to research methods in all types of interpreting. Indispensable tool for students and researchers of Interpreting as well as professionals and interpreter trainers.

"Articles on pressing issues including: current status of the field and its interdisciplinary nature; problematic definition of the object of study; various theoretical frameworks; research methodologies available."

"A practical guide to translation as a profession, this book provides everything translators need to know, from digital equipment to translation techniques, dictionaries in over 70 languages, & sources of translation work."

"20-week course in translation method. Dialogue examples and a full range of exercises. Examples are drawn from a wide variety of material from technical and commercial texts to poetry and song."

"The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating literature but also suggest the implications of the act of translation for critics, scholars, teachers, and students."

Intercultural Pragmatics studies how language systems are used in social encounters between speakers who have different first languages and cultures, yet communicate in a common language.

"What are the norms by which the facilitators of communication shape their role? Is there indeed only one role for the community interpreter or are there several?"

"Drawing on methodologies from sociology and integrating them into translation studies, the book...calls for a redefinition of long-assumed principles. The contributions...focus especially on the translator's position in an emerging sociology of translation."