Translation Books

New and Published Books

1. Textual Transformations in Children's Literature

   Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations

   Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

   Edited by Carmen Millán, Francesca Bartrina

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including: the...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Translation in the Digital Age

   By Michael Cronin

   Series: New Perspectives in Translation Studies

   Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread and profound. From automatic online translation services to the rise of crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Interpreting Justice

   Ethics, Politics and Language

   By Moira Inghilleri

   Series: Routledge Advances in Translation Studies

   In this timely study, Inghilleri examines the interface between ethics, language, and politics during acts of interpreting, with reference to two particular sites of transnational conflict: the political and judicial context of asylum adjudication and the geo-political context of war. The book...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Translation Changes Everything

   Theory and Practice

   By Lawrence Venuti

   In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Roman Theories of Translation

   Surpassing the Source

   By Siobhán McElduff

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Language Processing in Discourse

   A Key to Felicitous Translation

   By Monika Doherty

   Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

   This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences.Through extensive analysis of examples in...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. Becoming a Translator

   An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation, 3rd Edition

   By Douglas Robinson

   Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Translation Studies Reader

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Lawrence Venuti

   The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on twentieth-century developments. With introductory essays prefacing each section, the book places a wide range of seminal and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Evaluation in Translation

    Critical points of translator decision-making

    By Jeremy Munday

    In this book, Jeremy Munday presents advances towards a general theory of evaluation in translator decision-making that will be of high importance to translator and interpreter training and to descriptive translation analysis. By ‘evaluation’ the author refers to how a translator’s...

    Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge