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How I Learned the Alphabet— and a Few Other Things Along the Way
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- Written by Kenneth Kronenberg
People who know that I specialize in 19th- and 20th-century German diaries and letters often ask me how I found my way into such an arcane corner of the business. Most of them figure that I have university degrees and years of training behind me. But the truth is very different.
10 Apps Translators and Interpreters Must Download and Try
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- Written by Karen Hodgson
Translators and interpreters lead hectic lives, often work in different locations and traveling from one client to the next. As a result they heavily rely on their phones to access vital information.
Gains and Pitfalls of Sentence-Splitting in Translation
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- Written by Maria A. Kunilovskaya
ABSTRACT
The article seeks to draw attention to issues of text cohesion in student translations. It is approached with regard to sentence splitting, a technique which is used to dispense with structural complexity of texts and to enhance their readability and conformity to target language text-generating conventions.
News Translation as Reconstruction of Reality within Frames
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- Written by Nancy X. Liu
Abstract:
Drawing upon the communication theory of news reporting as construction of reality (Tuchman 1978), this study aims to systematically explore news translation as a means to reconstruct social reality within certain frames of different institutions.