Translation & Interpretation Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Introducing Translation Studies

   Theories and Applications, 3rd Edition

   By Jeremy Munday

   This is the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the dynamic field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and fully up-to-date overview of key movements and theorists within an expanding area of study, this textbook has become a key source for generations of...

   Published February 23rd 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 November 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. Cities in Translation

   Intersections of Language and Memory

   By Sherry Simon

   Series: New Perspectives in Translation Studies

   All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste,...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies

   Translation in Society

   By Sergey Tyulenev

   Series: Routledge Advances in Translation Studies

   This book deals with one of the most prominent and promising developments in modern Translation Studies--the sociology of translation. Tyulenev develops an original way of applying Luhmann's Social Systems Theory to translation, viewing translation as a social-systemic boundary phenomenon. The book...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
7. Translation in Modern Japan

   Edited by Indra Levy

   The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
8. In Other Words

   A Coursebook on Translation, 2nd Edition

   By Mona Baker

   This best-selling textbook written by Mona Baker, a leading international figure in translation studies, is the essential coursebook for any student studying in this field. Assuming no knowledge of foreign languages, In Other Words offers both a practical and theoretical guide to translation...

   Published January 27th 2011 by Routledge
9. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Mona Baker, Gabriela Saldanha

   Praise for the previous edition of the Encyclopedia of Translation Studies: 'Translation has long deserved this sort of treatment. Appropriate for any college or university library supporting a program in linguistics, this is vital in those institutions that train students to become translators.' –...

   Published January 4th 2011 by Routledge
10. Qur'an Translation

    Discourse, Texture and Exegesis

    By Hussein Abdul-Raof

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    The Qur'an is read by millions of Muslims on a daily basis, yet there is no book available to the reader, Arab or non-Arab, which provides a linguistic and rhetorical insight into Qur'anic discourse. This book explains Qur'an translational problems and provides a thorough account of the unique...

    Published December 21st 2010 by Routledge