Thinking Spanish Translation: Spanish to English

Synopsis

The new edition of this comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved. A variety of translation issues are addressed, including: cultural differences register and dialect grammatical differences genre. With a sharper focus, clearer definitions and an increased emphasis on up-to-date ‘real world’ translation tasks, this second edition features a wealth of relevant illustrative material taken from a wide range of sources, both Latin American and Spanish, including: technical, scientific and legal texts journalistic and informative texts literary and dramatic texts. Each chapter includes suggestions for classroom discussion and a set of practical exercises designed to explore issues and consolidate skills. Model translations, notes and suggestions for teaching and assessment are provided in a Teachers’ Handbook; this is available for free download at http://www.routledge.com/cw/thinkingtranslation/ Thinking Spanish Translation is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish and translation studies. The book will also appeal to a wide range of language students and tutors through the general discussion of the principles and purposes of translation.

Copyright:

2008

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781134070183

Related ISBNs:

9780203880678, 9780415440059, 9780203880678, 9780203886014, 9780415440059, 9780415440059, 9780415481298, 9780415481304, 9780415481298, 9780415481304

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

01/04/18

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study

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