A Multibillion-Dollar Industry Translation and Interpretation
A Multibillion-Dollar Industry Translation and Interpretation

Author: Lynn Henry-Roach

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578660509

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This book is for bilingual speakers who want to jump start their career as an translator, foreign language interpreter or American Sign Language (ASL). The target audience would include all foreign language teachers, native speakers of foreign languages with a professional proficiency in English and university students currently in graduate level language programs or those who have already obtained their degrees. Translators and interpreters new to the field will also benefit by having gaining a more knowledge about the various aspects of this industry including trends and projected career growth. Please note that this is not technical book on how to interpreter nor translate. This book is intended to be an overview of this multifaceted business which may answer the questions of how and why it continues to grow in the United States and globally. How to use different language skills for a positive impact in our daily communication.

Translation as a Profession
Translation as a Profession

Author: Daniel Gouadec

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-06-06

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9027292515

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Translation as a profession provides an in-depth analysis of the translating profession and the translation industry. The book starts with a presentation of the diversity of translations and an overview of the translation-localisation process. The second section describes the translation profession and the translators’ markets. The third section considers the process of ‘becoming’ a translator, from the moment people find out whether they have the required qualities to the moment when they set up shop or find a job, with special emphasis on how to find and hold on to clients, avoiding basic mistakes. The fourth section concentrates on the vital professional issues of costs, rates, deadlines, time to market, productivity, ethics, standards, qualification, certification, and professional recognition. The fifth section is devoted to the developments that have provoked ongoing changes in the profession and industry, such as ICT, and the impact of industrialisation, internationalisation, and globalisation. The final section is devoted to the major issues involved in translator training. A glossary is provided, together with a list of Websites for further browsing.

Trajectories of Translation
Trajectories of Translation

Author: Kobus Marais

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-23

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1000898113

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This book builds on Marais’s innovative A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation to explore the implications of this conceptualization of translation as the semiotic work from which social-cultural reality emerges and chart the way forward for applications in empirical research. The volume brings together some of the latest developments in biosemiotics, social semiotics and Peircean semiotics with emergent work in translation studies towards better understanding the emergence of trajectories in society-culture through semiotic processes. The book further develops lines of thinking around thermodynamics in the work of Terrence Deacon to consider the ways in which ideas emerge from matter, creating meaning, and its opposites, namely the ways in which ideas constrain matter. Marais links these theoretical strands to empirical case studies in the final three chapters towards operationalizing these concepts for further empirical work. This book is aimed at academics in the fields of translation studies, semiotics, multimodal/multimedial studies, cultural studies and development studies. It will also be applicable to postgraduate students in these fields.

Management
Management

Author: Richard L. Daft

Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780324271652

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Integrating new and traditional management ideas, this undergraduate textbook describes strategies for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling a department or an entire business. The sixth edition updates the case examples and reflects the atmosphere of the new workplace. Annotation (c) Book

Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space
Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space

Author: D.M. Mark

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 9401126062

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This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one element of that solicitation was a call for research on a "fundamental theory of spatial relations". We felt that such a fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry, topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our consortium late in 1988.