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Marion Turner London Review of Books, Vol. 46, No. 9 9 May 2024   Fixers: Agency, Translation and the Early Global History of Literature  by Zrinka Stahuljak. Chicago, 345 pp., £85, February, 978 0 226 83039 1   The earliest astrolabe​ in the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford was made in Syria in the ninth century and is inscribed with text in

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Translation and History: A Textbook

  By Theo Hermans Copyright Year 2023     ISBN 9781138036987   Published July 7, 2022 by Routledge   This concise and accessible textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key historical aspects of translation. Six chapters cover essential concepts in researching and writing the history of translation and translation as history. Theo Hermans presents and explains fundamental issues and

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Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

Edited By: Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil 2022, Routledge DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003258704 OPEN ACCESS   This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object

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Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans

Edited by Mona Baker Copyright Year 2022 ISBN 9780367681968 268 Pages 18 Illustrations Will be available open access in June 2022 This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas,

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Fragmented Narrative: Telling and Interpreting Stories in the Twitter Age

Neil Sadler Routledge, 2022 With the rise and rise of social media, today’s communication practices are significantly different from those of even the recent past. A key change has been a shift to very small units, exemplified by Twitter and its strict 240-character limit on individual posts. Consequently, highly fragmented communication has become the norm in many contexts. Fragmented Narrative sets out

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health

Edited by Şebnem Susam-Saraeva and Eva Spišiaková Copyright Year 2021 ISBN 9781138335349 The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health provides a bridge between translation studies and the burgeoning field of health humanities, which seeks novel ways of understanding health and illness. As discourses around health and illness are dependent on languages for their transmission, impact, spread, acceptance and rejection in

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Translating the Crisis

Politics and Culture in Spain after the 15M by Fruela Fernández Copyright Year 2021 Translating the Crisis discusses the multiple translation practices that shaped the 15M movement, also known as the indignados (‘outraged’), a series of mass demonstrations and occupations of squares that took place across Spain in 2011 and which played a central role in the recent global wave of popular protest.

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Journal for Translation Studies in Africa

    Volume 1 (2020) Open Access       Editorial Translation studies in Africa: quo vadis? Carmen Delgado Luchner, Kobus Marais 1-6 PDF Articles ‘They are not empowered enough to speak English’: Multilingual communication between Kenyan NGOs and local communities Carmen Delgado Luchner 7-24 PDF ‘These are all outside words’: Translating development discourse in NGOs’ projects in Kyrgyzstan and

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