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Translation Practices Explained

About the Book Series

Translation Practices Explained is a series of coursebooks designed to help self-learners and students on translation and interpreting courses. Each volume focuses on a specific aspect of professional translation and interpreting practice, usually corresponding to courses available in translator- and interpreter-training institutions. The authors are practicing translators, interpreters, and/or translator or interpreter trainers. Although specialists, they explain their professional insights in a manner accessible to the wider learning public.

Each volume includes activities and exercises designed to help learners consolidate their knowledge, while updated reading lists and website addresses will also help individual learners gain further insight into the realities of professional practice.

33 Series Titles


Revising and Editing for Translators

Revising and Editing for Translators

4th Edition

By Brian Mossop, Brian Mossop
September 18, 2019

Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students and professional translators learning to revise the work of others or edit original writing, and those wishing to improve their self-revision ability. Revising and editing are seen as reading ...

Healthcare Interpreting Explained

Healthcare Interpreting Explained

1st Edition

By Claudia Angelelli
June 03, 2019

Healthcare Interpreting Explained is the first comprehensive user-friendly book on the practice of medical/healthcare interpreting. Written by a leading world authority and drawing on research carried out in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia, this process-focussed text goes beyond terms...

Consecutive Interpreting A Short Course

Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course

1st Edition

By Andrew Gillies
April 23, 2019

Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course provides a step-by-step guide to consecutive interpreting. This user-friendly coursebook tackles key skills such as presentation, analysis, note-taking and reformulation, as well as advanced market-related skills such as preparation for assignments, protocol...

Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting A Short Course

Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course

2nd Edition

By Andrew Gillies
May 23, 2017

Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course is the essential step-by-step guide to the skill of note-taking. The system, made up of a range of tried and tested techniques, is simple to learn, consistent and efficient. Each chapter presents a technique, with examples, tasks and ...

Introduction to Court Interpreting

Introduction to Court Interpreting

2nd Edition

By Holly Mikkelson
December 07, 2016

An Introduction to Court Interpreting has been carefully designed to be comprehensive, accessible and globally applicable. Starting with the history of the profession and covering the key topics from the role of the interpreter in the judiciary setting to ethical principles and techniques of ...

Translating Song Lyrics and Texts

Translating Song: Lyrics and Texts

1st Edition

By Peter Low
October 26, 2016

This engaging step-by-step guide prescribes effective strategies and tactics for translating a wide range of songs and other vocal music, from classical to contemporary. Focusing on best practice and with a variety of language examples, the book centres on four key themes: translating songs for ...

An Introduction to Audio Description A practical guide

An Introduction to Audio Description: A practical guide

1st Edition

By Louise Fryer
May 02, 2016

An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the skills needed for the effective translation of images into words for the blind and partially-sighted.   A wide...

Translating Children's Literature

Translating Children's Literature

1st Edition

By Gillian Lathey
August 03, 2015

Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of the many developmental and linguistic issues related to writing and translating for children, an audience that spans a period of enormous intellectual progress and affective change from birth to adolescence. Lathey looks at a broad range of ...

Localizing Apps A practical guide for translators and translation students

Localizing Apps: A practical guide for translators and translation students

1st Edition

By Johann Roturier
May 06, 2015

The software industry has undergone rapid development since the beginning of the twenty-first century. These changes have had a profound impact on translators who, due to the evolving nature of digital content, are under increasing pressure to adapt their ways of working. Localizing Apps looks at ...

User-Centered Translation

User-Centered Translation

1st Edition

By Tytti Suojanen, Kaisa Koskinen, Tiina Tuominen
December 18, 2014

Translators want to take their readers into account, but traditional translation theory does not offer much advice on how to do that. User-Centered Translation (UCT) offers practical tools and methods to help empower translators to act for their readers. This book will help readers to: Create ...

Audiovisual Translation Dubbing

Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing

1st Edition

By Frederic Chaume
July 25, 2014

Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing is an introductory textbook that provides a solid overview of the world of dubbing and is fundamentally interactive in approach. A companion to Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling, it follows a similar structure and is accompanied by downloadable resources.Based on ...

Translating Official Documents

Translating Official Documents

1st Edition

By Roberto Mayoral Asensio
June 18, 2014

Official translations are generally documents that serve as legally valid instruments. They include anything from certificates of birth, death or marriage through to academic transcripts or legal contracts. This field of translation is now as important as it is fraught with difficulties, for it is ...

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