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Book SynopsisThis book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland. In any totalitarian regime maintaining control over cultural exchange is strategically important, so studying these regimes from the perspective of translation can provide a unique insight into their history and into the nature of their power. This book is intended as a sister volume to Translation Under Fascism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and adopts a similar approach of using translation as a lens through which to examine history. With a strong interdisciplinary focus, it will appeal to students and scholars of translation studies, translation history, censorship, translation and ideology, and public policy, as well as cultural and literary historians of Eastern Europe, Soviet communism, and the Cold War period.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Christopher Rundle, Anne Lange, and Daniele Monticelli).- Chapter 2. Translation and the History of Communism (Anne Lange, Daniele Monticelli, and Christopher Rundle).- Part 2: The Soviet Union.- Chapter 3. Translation and the Formation of the Soviet Canon of World Literature (Nataliia Rudnytska).- Chapter 4. Censorship, Permitted Dissent, and Translation Theory in the USSR: The Case of Kornei Chukovsky (Brian James Baer).- Chapter 5. Translating Inferno: Mikhail Lozinskii, Dante and the Soviet Myth of the Translator (Susanna Witt).- Chapter 6. Translation in Ukraine during the Stalinism Period: Literary Translation Policies and Practices (Oleksandr Kalnychenko and Lada Kolomiyets).- Part 3: Communist Europe.- Chapter 7. The Politics of Translation in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1952 (Maria Rita Leto).- Chapter 8. Ideological Control in a Slovene Socialist State Publishing House: Conformity and Dissent (Nike K. Pokorn).- Chapter 9. “Anyone who isn’t against us is for us”. Science Fiction Translated from English during the Kádár Era in Hungary (1956–89) (Anikó Sohár).- Chapter 10. The Impact of the Cultural Policy of the GDR on the Work of Translators (Hanna Blum).- Chapter 11. The Allen Ginsberg ‘Case’ and Translation (in) History: How Czechoslovakia Elected and then Expelled the King of May (Igor Tyšš).- Chapter 12. Literary Translation in Communist Bulgaria (1944-1989) (Krasimira Ivleva).- Chapter 13. Underground Fiction Translation in People’s Poland, 1976–1989 (Robert Looby).- Part 4: Response.- Chapter 14. A Battle for Translation (Vitaly Chernetsky)

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. The Pipeline of Sign Language Machine.- Chapter 2. How it Started and How it's Going: Sign-Language Machine Translation and Engagement with Deaf Communities over the past 25 years.- Chapter 3. The Importance of Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing.- Chapter 4. Sign Languages and Machine Translation: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 5. Challenges with Sign Language Datasets.- Chapter 6. Language Resources for European Sign Languages.* Chapter 7. Sign languages as source language for machine translation: historical overview and challenges.- Chapter 8. Linguistic Processing for Sign Language Translation.- Chapter 9. Improving Sign Language Gloss Translation with Low-Resource Machine Translation Techniques.- Chapter 10. Sign Language Synthesis: Current Signing Avatar Systems and Representation.- Chapter 11. A Real-Time Collision Detection and Avoidance Algorithm for Fingerspelling Animation.- Chapter 12. Bridging the Gap: Understanding the Intersection of Deaf and Technical Perspectives on Signing Avatars.- Chapter 13. Sign Language Machine Translation Communication and Engagement. Chapter 14. (Towards) Sign Language Machine Translation inPractice.

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Book SynopsisTranslation and translator before the Millenium.- Development of Translation studies in the New Millenium.- Language Industry.- Translation pedagogy.- Research in Translation studies.

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Book SynopsisPart I. Theoretical Foundations.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Corpus-assisted Translator Style Research.- Chapter 3. Corpus Stylistics.- Chapter 4. The Functional Aspect of Translator Style.- Part II. Case Study.- Chapter 5. Lao She and His Story of Er Ma.- Chapter 6. Corpora and Methodology.- Chapter 7. Keywords in Er Ma.- Chapter 8. Functional Style as Reconstruction of Literary Themes.- Chapter 9. Functional Style as Recharacterization of Story Figures.- Chapter 10. Functional Style as Textual Panorama Building.- Chapter 11. Functional Styles and Beyond.- Chapter 12. Conclusion.

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