1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910468248303321

Autore

Abdel Latif Muhammad M. M.

Titolo

Translator and interpreter education research : areas, methods and trends / / Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

981-15-8550-4

978-981-15-8552-4

978-981-15-8550-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 163 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

New frontiers in translation studies

Disciplina

418.02071

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - Study and teaching

Translating and interpreting - Research

Interprétation

Interprètes

Langage

interpretation

language

literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research: definition, historical developments, and areas -- Chapter 2: Experimentation in pedagogical translation and interpreting research -- Chapter 3: Research on translation and interpreting training programme evaluation -- Chapter 4: Assessment research of translation and interpreting -- Chapter 5: Issues in translator and interpreter cognitive process research -- Chapter 6: Researching translated and interpreted texts -- Chapter 7: Researching practitioner translator and interpreter experiences -- Chapter 8: Future perspectives in pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a detailed introduction and guide to researching



translator and interpreter education. Providing an overview of the main research topics, trends and methods, the book covers the following six areas: training effectiveness, learning and teaching practices, assessment, translation and interpreting processes, translated and interpreted texts, and professionals’ experiences and roles. The book focuses on explaining the issues and topics researched in each area, and showing how they have been researched. As the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of translator and interpreter education research, it has important implications to developing its areas at the theoretical and practical levels. In addition, it offers an invaluable guide for those interested in researching translator and interpreter education areas, and in educating translators and interpreters.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955876803321

Autore

Furer-Haimendorf Christoph von <1909-1995., >

Titolo

The Apa Tanis and their neighbours : a primitive civilization of the Eastern Himalayas / / Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-136-54536-0

1-138-86202-9

1-315-01782-2

1-136-54529-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Antrhopology and ethnography. South Asia ; ; II

Disciplina

305.89

Soggetti

Apatani (Indic people)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1962.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; I. The Utilization of Natural Resources; II. Trade and Barter; III. Social Structure; IV. The Position of Slaves; V. Family Life; VI. The Maintenance of Law and Order; VII. Relations with



Neighbours in Peace and War; VIII. Religion and the Moral Order; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Inhabiting a secluded valley in the Eastern Himalayas, the Apa Tanis remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1944-45 when the author spent several months in their villages, studying their internal social structure as well as their political and economic relations with neighbouring tribes. <BR> The economy of the Apa Tanis, who knew neither the principle of animal traction nor the wheel, resembled that of certain Neolithic societies, but the methods used in the exploitation of their natural environment were far from primitive, and a developed agriculture enabled a population of so