Books for translators / Englische Bücher für Übersetzer
am 18.11.2005 von Transblawg
Multilingual Matters publish books and journals for translators and interpreters. They have addresses in Britain and the USA, or you can order from their website at a 20% discount.
I wasn’t aware of them before, but they have some authors I’ve heard of.
There is now a fourth revised edition, for instance, of Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown’s A Practical Guide for Translators, which is good (have only seen earlier editions).
I would be tempted by Josef F. Buenker’s The Interpreter’s Guide to the Vehicular Accident Lawsuit, but since I am unlikely to have anything to do with a U.S. case of this kind, I will give it a miss. There is also a book on translation into Scots (Frae Ither Tongues, edited by Bill Findlay), a couple of Newmarks - some of these authors have been taken over from other publishers.
I got this information from a flyer in the ITI Bulletin. The website is full of a wider range of books, and if you click on Topics in Translation or Translating Europe, you don’t see these books. To find the books …
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Electronic journals for translators / Online-Zeitschriften für Übersetzer
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Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein
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Language Realm/Website für Übersetzer
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Translation Journal new edition
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Websters online dictionary - Rosetta edition
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Books on legal English footnote/Bücher über Rechtsenglisch Nachtrag
Transblawg / Of course I remembered more books. I will use this current entry for anything else that occurs to me, so come and check it again in future. First, there are books on legal English by Peter Tiersma. The one I know is called Legal Language. It's a…
Translators Companion: Website English / Deutsch für Literaturübersetzer
Transblawg / This site apparently demands Firefox / Angeblich nur mit Firefox zu besuchen: Deutsch: 10 Jahre lang hat sich der Translators’ Companion als Informationsquelle zur literarischen Übersetzung in Europa bewährt. Für die Internet-V…
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