Translation and Conflict was the first book to demonstrate that translators and interpreters participate in circulating as well as resisting the narratives that create the intellectual and moral environment for violent conflict and social tensions. Drawing on narrative theory and with numerous examples from historical and current contexts of conflict, Mona Baker provides an original and coherent model of analysis that pays equal attention to the circulation of narratives in translation and...

In Other Words has been the definitive coursebook for students studying translation for more than three decades. Assuming no knowledge of languages other than English, it offers a practical guide based on extensive research in areas as varied as lexis, grammar, pragmatics, semiotics and ethics. It thus provides a solid basis for training a new generation of well-informed, critical students of translation.The fourth edition builds further on linguistic theory and the litera...

The COVID-19 crisis has transformed the highly specialized issue of what constitutes reliable medical evidence into a topic of public concern and debate. This book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in different contexts. Rather than treating various practices of knowledge as rational or irrational in purely scientific terms, it explains the controversies surrounding COVID-19 by drawing on a theoretical framework that recognizes d...

Die große Autobiographie der größten Tänzerin ihrer ZeitJosephine Baker schaffte es aus einfachsten Verhältnissen ganz nach oben und inspirierte mit ihrer Energie Generationen von Frauen – bis heute. Hier erzählt sie ihre Lebensgeschichte in ihrem ganz eigenen Stil – von der Kindheit in den amerikanischen Südstaaten, ihrem Aufstieg als Tänzerin und Sängerin, dem glamourösen Leben in Paris bis zu ihrem heldenhaften Einsatz gegen das NS-Regime im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

Contesting Translation, a celebratory edited volume, honours Professor Mona Baker, one of the most influential scholars in translation, interpreting, and intercultural studies. The 11 original chapters were especially commissioned from scholars who have developed enduring personal, professional, and intellectual connections with Baker through her teaching and research.The chapters are framed by a reflective introduction, and clustered into three inter-related sections: "Tr...

Als Freda McDonald 1906 in einem Armenviertel in Saint Louis zur Welt kommt, deutet nichts darauf hin, dass sie als Josephine Baker als erster afroamerikanischer Superstar die Welt erobern wird. Die Chancen stehen denkbar schlecht, für die uneheliche Tochter einer Wäscherin, die Gesetze der Rassentrennung ins Gegenteil zu verkehren, doch Josephine Baker hält sich an keine Regeln, sie macht ihre eigenen. Für sie gibt es immer noch eine weitere Rolle, in der sie sich neu verwirklichen kann u...

Challenging sensational falsehoods, Berniece and Mona present the only authorized book about Marilyn on the shelves."Berniece Miracle finally opens up her family album--and translates an American legend into flesh and blood...MY SISTER MARILYN is a big hug across the decades to a sweet, talented, loving girl."--Life Magazine"...a highly literate, readable account."--The Bookwatch"MY SISTER MARILYN tells an unfamiliar story...this book is really diffe...

Mona Baker is one of the leading figures in the development of translation studies as an academic discipline. This book brings together fifteen of her most influential articles, carefully selected and grouped under three main topics that represent her most enduring contributions to the field: corpus-based translation studies, translation as renarration and translators in society. These applications and approaches have been widely adopted by translation scholars around the globe.The...

*Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016!*Discursive and non-discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian experience since 2011, this volume brings together a unique group of activists who are able to reflect on the complexities, challenges and limitations of one or more forms of translation and its...

It is August 1944 and Paris is on the cusp of liberation. As the soldiers of the Third Reich flee the Allied advance, they ravage the country, stealing countless pieces of art. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring will stop at nothing to claim the most valuable one of all, the Mona Lisa, as a post-war bargaining chip to get him to South America. Can Swiss OSS agents Gabi Mueller and Eric Hofstadler rescue DaVinci's masterpiece before it falls into German hands?With nonstop action, Ch...

Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes of co-optation and reverse co-optation, power and resistance, the ethics of witnessing and solidarity, and novel responses to the democratic deficit.Framed by a substantial introd...

Ian Mason has been a towering presence in the now flourishing discipline of translation studies since its inception, and has produced some of the most influential and detailed analyses of translated text and interpreted interaction to date. The sophistication, dynamism and inclusiveness that have characterized his approach to all forms of mediation are the hallmarks of his legacy.Text and Context celebrates Ian Mason's scholarship by bringing together fourteen innovative and origin...