Teaching Translation and Interpreting
Advances and Perspectives
Published on 12. December 2012
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-1-4438-4177-1 (ISBN)
Description
Translation is a phenomenon that affects us all on a daily basis, the more so now that dissemination of information is greatly enhanced by modern technology. However, there are no strict regulations on who can become a translator and what qualifications are required. The contributors to this volume strive to find out whether translators are taught, self-taught or trained, what the teaching or training programmes are like and how they can be improved.This is a companion volume to Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Challenges and Practices (edited by Lukasz Bogucki, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). It contains papers delivered at two international conferences devoted to teaching translation and interpreting, organised in Lodz, Poland, as well as invited contributions. The authors are translation and interpreting scholars and teachers from leading Polish and Ukrainian universities.
Reviews / Votes
'The world has changed and is continuing to change rapidly. Those who can communicate linguistically and culturally are and will continue to be in high demand. Teaching those skill sets will become a practical standard in higher education. As the editors point out, "What was largely a self-taught profession in previous centuries has recently become the focal element of academic curricula." This trend will only grow. Those on the leading edge of this phenomena will find the insights in this tome to be invaluable as they navigate these new and mostly unchartered waters.'Dr Thomas LawProfessor of Interpreting Services, Missional Universitytomlaw.org, 23.12.2016More details
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4438-4177-1 (9781443841771)
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Persons
Prof. Lukasz Bogucki is Director of the Institute of English at Lodz University, Poland. He is the author of four books and over twenty articles on translation theory. He has also edited one volume and co-edited another. He has taught translation for twenty years and supervised over eighty dissertations. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Specialised Translation.Dr Mikolaj Deckert works at the Institute of English at Lodz University, Poland. His academic interests include translation, cognitive linguistics, media discourse, pragmatics and corpus linguistics. He has written a number of papers and a monograph, Meaning in Subtitling: Toward a Contrastive Cognitive Semantic Model.