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"Some kids have one job: to be a kid! Cecilia has two. When she isn't on the soccer field scoring goals, she's accompanying her parents to all kinds of grown-up places, like the DMV, the accountant's office, and the auto shop. She helps them translate from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish. It's an important job, and it can even be fun. It's also hard work. Sometimes Cecilia's second job is so much responsibility, it feels like she'll...

"It's a little girl's first trip to her papa's homeland and she's wowed by the experience, including her enormous family, but she only knows a little Spanish and luckily relatives help her see there are other ways to connect" -- Publisher marketing.

"Ilse Lund is a French translator who lives in a beach house on stilts set on a remote spit of land off the west coast of Greenland. Restless from the predictability of life in her quaint cottage and her isolated world circumscribed by the sea, Ilse convinces her French publisher to pay for a trip to the country whose language she translates but has never visited--France. Her mission: to translate the verses of an elderly Provençal poet known as...

An exquisite medley of lyrical verse and poetic prose, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ranks among the supreme revelations in the literature of love. Its allegorical view of the soul's crisis and growth combines a narrative with meditations, dreams, songs, and prayers. In this masterpiece of his youth, Dante assembles a selection of his love poems within a prose framework that situates them chronologically and autobiographically. The result is a history...

"A young girl helps her dad navigate life in a new country where she understands the language more than he does, in an unforgettable story about communication and community. Angie is used to helping her dad. Ever since they moved to Canada, he relies on her to translate for him from English to Chinese. Angie is happy to help: when they go to restaurants, at the grocery store, and, one day, when her dad needs help writing some signs for his work. Building...

"La traducción es una actividad que ha acompañado al ser humano a lo largo de los siglos. Si, como afirma Octavio Paz, aprender a hablar es aprender a traducir, entonces traducir es un mecanismo esencial que permea nuestra concepción, percepción y aprehensión del mundo. Desde otra perspectiva, aprender a traducir es también aprender a leer en su sentido más amplio: es descifrar, comprender e interpretar la alteridad inscrita en cualquier tipo...

A tradução literária tem sido uma das mais comuns desde os primórdios da história, quando começamos a necessitar das traduções e o papel do tradutor foi fundamental para o estabelecimento do entendimento. Com o fortalecimento dos Estudos da Tradução no Brasil, mais pessoas têm se interessado pelos bastidores do processo tradutório. Por isso, muitos estudantes da área desenvolvem suas pesquisas em tradução literária enfocando os aspectos...

A practical guide to translation as a profession, this book provides everything translators need to know, from digital equipment to translation techniques, dictionaries in over seventy languages, and sources of translation work. It is the premier sourcebook for all linguists, used by both beginners and veterans, and its predecessor, The Translator's Handbook, has been praised by some of the world's leading translators, such as Gregory Rabassa and...

Paulo Henriques Britto, además de ser escritor, es uno de los más importantes traductores literarios de obras en lengua inglesa en Brasil, con más de cien libros traducidos al portugués. Su vasta experiencia como traductor, pero también como profesor universitario, lo llevó a reflexionar sobre el oficio, dejando sus impresiones en varios textos publicados en revistas académicas, y también en este libro, La traducción literaria, que fue publicado...

En la búsqueda de que más profesionales de la traducción puedan conocer una terminología propia de su profesión es que las reconocidas traductoras peruanas Mary Ann Monteagudo Medina y Rosa Luna García presentan esta propuesta de diccionario monolingüe en español. Así, esta publicación nace con el objetivo de consolidar y tomar conciencia sobre el vocabulario de la propia disciplina para la aplicación en el ámbito laboral. A lo largo de...