Translating cultures - An introduction for translators, interpreters and mediators
As the 21st century gets into stride so does the call for a
discipline combining culture and translation. This second edition of
Translating Cultures
retains its original aim of putting some rigour and coherence into
these fashionable words and lays the foundation for such a discipline.
The core of the book provides a model for teaching culture to
translators, interpreters and other mediators. It introduces the reader
to current understanding about culture and aims to raise awareness of
the fundamental role of culture in constructing, perceiving and
translating reality. Culture is perceived throughout as a system for
orienting experience, and a basic presupposition is that the
organization of experience is not 'reality', but rather a simplified
model and a 'distortion' which varies from culture to culture. Each
culture acts as a frame within which external signs or 'reality' are
interpreted. The approach is interdisciplinary, taking ideas from
contemporary translation theory, anthropology, Bateson's logical typing
and metamessage theories, Bandler and Grinder's NLP meta-model theory,
and Hallidayan functional grammar.
Authentic texts and translations are offered to illustrate the
various strategies that a cultural mediator can adopt in order to make
the different cultural frames he or she is mediating between more
explicit.
An introduction to linguistics
A clear, straightforward guide to the rudiments of linguistics, aimed at A-level and undergraduate students. Explains the technical features, and leads to a full understanding, providing the sound base needed for exploring other branches of the field.
Added by: LianaSaakova | Karma: 26.69 | Fiction literature | 24 June 2007
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Introduction to the Book of Zohar
Yehudah Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) Commentary by Michael Laitman PhD
Introduction to the Zohar is the second in a series written by Kabbalist and scientist Rav Michael Laitman, which will prepare readers to understand the hidden message of "The Zohar". Among the many helpful topics dealt with in this companion text to The Science of Kabbalah, readers are introduced to the 'language of root and branch', without which the stories in the Zohar are mere fable and legend. Introduction to the Zohar will certainly furnish readers with the necessary tools to understand authentic Kabbalah as it was originally meant to be, as a means to attain the 'Upper Worlds'
Although there is coverage of groups such as the Irish Republican Army and events such as the Munich Olympics massacre, the emphasis of this book is on terrorism in, or against, the U.S. In 300 A-Z entries Kushner, a well-respected researcher in this area, covers terrorist-related events, groups, individuals, methods, activities, and responses. Although he began work on the book a year prior to the events of September 11, 2001, he writes in his introduction that those events made the need for an authoritative reference source on terrorism more urgent, and many of the entries are connected to 9/11.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 29 May 2007
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Think, A Compelling Introduction To Philosophy
This book is for people who want to think about the big themes: knowledge, reason, truth, mind, freedom, destiny, identity, God, goodness, justice. These are not the hidden preserve of specialists. They are things that men and women wonder about naturally, for they structure the ways we think about the world and our place in it. They are also themes about which thinkers have had things to say.
If readers have absorbed this book, then they should be on better terms with the big themes. And they should be able to read many otherwise baffling major thinkers with pleasure and reasonable understanding.
