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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of major issues in the expanding and multifaceted field of translation studies. Intended as an essential and introductory textbook for undergraduate students, the volume contains 14 chapters featuring such wide-ranging and diverse topics as: equivalence, translation procedures, linguistic and cultural barriers in translation, cognitive approaches to translation, corpora and descriptive translation studies, multimodal communication and multidimensional translation in audiovisual contexts, machine translation, CAT and localization, literary translation, legal and medical translation, interpreting, translation competence and borrowing from English.
Trade ReviewWays to translation happens to be a successful enterprise taht manages to delineate the titular wayes to translation for the benefit of translators and translation researchers alike. Dr had. -- Wojciech Kubinski, UG Institute of English and Amercian Studies, University of Gdansk
