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Based on the question: what can the concept of minority bring to the practice and study of translation? This book focuses on the distinctive forms that translating takes when it is done by or on behalf of minorities. It presents a variety of case studies that illuminate the linguistic and cultural problems posed by such translating.

Focusing on the problems of translating English legal language, Alcaraz and Hughes offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most demanding and vital areas of contemporary translation practice. Individual chapters deal with legal English as a linguistic system, special concepts in the translation of legal English, the genres of legal translation, and offer a series of practical problems together with discussions of proposed solutions, as well as...

Statistics on the translation market consistently identify medicine as a major thematic area as far as volume or translation is concerned. This book explains the basics of medical translation and ways of teaching and learning how to translate medical texts.

A practical guide to conference interpreting by an experienced interpreter working for the European Commission. It contains detailed discussion of the pitfalls and strategies of the work, as well as relevant contacts.

Reveals the complex influences arising from the audiovisual environment. This book shows how the effectiveness of subtitles is crucially dependent upon the hidden semiotic relations between text and image, relations which affect the meaning of the visual-linguistic message and the way in which that message is ultimately received.

Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style.

Intends to explore the various challenges posed by the translation of children's literature and at the same time highlight some of the strategies that translators can and do follow when facing these challenges.

Provides numerous examples drawn from the author's classroom experience in translator education and foreign language teaching. This book uses a number of classroom case studies to illustrate his method, including: introductory courses in translation studies, project-based translation practice courses, and translation studies seminars.