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Website features

• Translation glossary
• Translation and language usage surveys
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Translation key terms

• Some key terms in translation theory

Issues

• Translation approaches

  • Concept Translation in Meiji Japan
  • "Idiomatic-Adaptive" vs. "Literal-Traditional" Translation
  • Dictionary based approach
  • Linguistically possible translation
  • Need a Translation?
  • Recent Translation Theory and Linguistic Borrowing in the Modern Sino-Chinese Cultural Context
  • Three different Approaches to Translation of Poetry
  • Translation: The Method!
  • Translation maxims
  • Universal Grammar in Translation Pedagogy
  • Verbatim Interpretation: an Oxymoron
  • xfer: Translation

• Literary translation

  • CurtainUp Presents Some Further Thoughts About the Translator's Craft
  • Good Translations
  • My PoeticTranslations
  • Poetry Translation and Cultural Codes

• Inclusive language

  (The following links are not specifically on translation, but since inclusive language is an increasingly public issue, and it does affect translation, we include them here. See also Bible translation inclusive language.)
  • Jane Austen and other famous authors violate what everyone learned in their English class
  • Department of Religion Statement on Inclusive Language
  • Re: Inclusive language redux
  • Information Sheet #9: Using Inclusive Language Without Being Awkward
  • Silk Purses and Sow's Ears "Inclusive Language" Comes to Mass
  • The United Church of Canada Church Policies Guide to Inclusive Language

• Other translation issues

  • Assessment In Translation Studies: Research Needs (PDF file)
  • Clear English for the Internet
  • Difficulties in the Transfer of Information between Languages
  • Gender in Translation, by Sherry Simon
  • Global Vision: More Than Words
  • Introduction to the Research
  • Listening to Lectures in L2; Taking Notes in L1
  • Restrictions and the Potentialities of linguistic communication in Japanese-Chinese interpretation (abstract of paper)
  • Volume 2: Translation and Gender. Translating in the 'Era of Feminism', by Luise von Flotow
  • Translation quality
  • Translation Problems
  • Translation Problems (interesting anecdotes)
  • Verbatim Interpretation: an Oxymoron
  • Views on Translation

• Ethnolinguistic Notes

  • ELN3.6: Thoughts on Translation and Meaning: A Progress Report
  • ELN3.26: Perlocutionary Translation
  • ELN3.28: The translation of casual speech
  • ELN3.29: The Post-Linnean World-view and Languages of Universal Translation
  • ELN3.30: Why translation works (to the extent that it does)
  • ELN3.31: "What They Would Say In the Same Situation"
  • ELN3.32: The idea of a theory of translation: Some general observations
  • ELN3.33: The idea of a theory of translation: On shared and unshared cultural backgrounds
  • ELN3.34: The idea of a theory of translation: The object of the verb "to translate"

Interpreting

• Articles by Holly Mikkelson
• FAQ: Interpreting
• What does an interpreter do?
• Simultaneous Translation

Translation process

• The Translation Process: A View of the Mind, by Ali Darwish

Machine translation

• automatic language translation (machine translation)
• MBT1: Example-Based Word Selection
• The Kant Project
• Interlingual representations, the MT triangle and good food
• Links on Machine Translation (MT)
• Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide
• Natural Language Understanding links
• Pragmatics Based Machine Translation

Examples

• The Bad, The So-So, and the Excellent
• Cheyenne
• Coptic
• The French Language: Proof That Literal Translation Is Not Always Correct
• German Voyager
• Linguistic Evaluation Protocol
• On se comprend
• Quechua
• Sayings for Windows (English to German examples)
• Translation of Nietzsche maxims

Idioms

• Idioms from around the world
• Plow Up Your Soul and Freeze Your Blood

Humor

• Translation humor

Resources

• Aquarius
• Correct English Translation
• Foundation for Indigenous Languages
• The French Connection
• Gideon TOURY's Site
• Hypertext Translation Aids for Greek 1/10
• Identifying the type of translation
• Internet Resources for Translators
• InterTrans
• Japanese
• Josh Wallace's "Translation Better than the Original"
• K International
• Langua Tutor
• The Language Hub
• Language Partners International
• Languages and translation
• Linguistic Innovations
• A.L. Madrid & Associates - Language Related Services
• MPP Service Range
• Multi-Cultural Educational Services
• A polyglot photocopier
• Resources for Literary Translators
• A Rich Model for Presenting Interlinear Text
• SRASassociates
• Translatlantic Translations
• Translation Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
• Transcend
• Translation Centre
• Translation, Interpretation and Language Links
• Translation Organizations
• The Translation Workshop
• Translator Registry
• The Translator's Home Companion
• The Translators Home Page
• TransNet2000
• ttt.org -translation, theory, & technology-
• Webb's World Translation Resources
• World language links

Discussion groups

• LANTRA-L: Translation and Interpretation (mailing list)
• translat mailing list
• Translation
• Translation newsgroup

Translation links

• Links to Translation Studies Resources
• Michael Gierhake's links
• Neotext, translation, interpretation, international communication
• Ring of Translation Research
• Sites of Interest to Translators
• Translation Journal links page

Computer software

• Idioms for Windows
• Interlinear Text Processing software
• Interlinear Text Processing System (for Macintosh computers)
• Shoebox 5 software
• Translate Instant Spanish
• Universal Translator

Schools, courses, and research centers

• Translation schools and centers
• Translation courses
• Translation Studies Seminar Series 1997/98

Conferences and workshops

• Discourse Analysis for Translation Workshop
• International Conference on Translation and Interpretation Studies
• Information on conferences and seminars
• Translation and Discourse Analysis
• Translation Theory and Applications
• Workshop: Translation and Culture
• World to World: A Workshop in Literary Translation

Books and articles

• amazon.com books on translation and interpretation
• Articles by Holly Mikkelson
• Ernst-August Gutt webpage (on Relevance Theory and Translation)
• In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, by Mona Baker, 1992
• Meaning-Based Translation, by Mildred L. Larson, 1998
• Pen American Center Translation Committee: Selected Resources
• St. Jerome Publishing (extensive listing of books on translation)
• Task-Based Translator Training, Quality Assessment, and the WWW
• Thematic challenges in translation between Japanese and English, by Mikako Naganuma (M.A. thesis)
• Ut Once More: The Sentence as the Key Functional Unit of Translation

• Specific titles

Journals and newsletters

• The Irn Bulletin
• Language Today
• Meta
• Notes On Translation
• Reviews already received (*) or promised for the 2000 edition
• Target: International Journal of Translation Studies
• Translation Journal
• Translation Review
• Translation Studies Abstracts
• TRANSST: International Newsletter for Translation Studies
• Two Lines

Online dictionaries

• All-in-one dictionary search
• Anishinaabe (Ojibwa)
• Cheyenne
• Collection of Web-Dictionaries
• Dictionaries
• Dictionaries, etc. (at the Linguist List site)
• English-to-Other-Language Translation Dictionaries
• French
• German
• An Index of On-Line Dictionaries
• Japanese
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
• List of Dictionaries
• LOGOS dictionary: a multilingual dictionary
• Multiple Language Dictionary
• Online Dictionaries
• Russian

• Free Online Language Courses

Bible translation page

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