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Uneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian Literature interweaves the personal journey of an academic into reflections around self, language and translation with an eye on the intangibly available category of experience. It dwells on quieter modes of being political, of making knowledge democratic and of seeing gendered language in the everyday. In an unusual combination of real-life incidents and textual examples, it provides a palimpsest of what it is to be in a classroom; in the domestic sphere, straddling the'manyness'of language and, of course, in a constant mode of translation that remains incomplete and unconcluded. Through both a poignant voice and rigorous questions, Kothari asks what it is to live and teach in India as a woman, a multilingual researcher and as both a subject and a rebel of the discipline of English. ­She draws from multiple bhasha texts with an uncompromising eye on their autonomy and intellectual tradition. ­The essays range from questions of knowledge, affect, caste, shame and humiliation to other cultural memories. Translation avoids the arrogance of the original; it has the freedom to say it and not be held accountable, which can make it both risky and exciting. More importantly, it also speaks after (anuvaad) rather than only for or instead, and this ethic informs the way Kothari writes this book, breaking new ground with gentle provocations.

Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers encountering his work in English translation will get a comprehensive understanding of Wang Wei‘s range as a poet and prose writer. In spite of the importance of Wang Wei's poetry in the history of Chinese literature, no one has attempted a complete translation of all of his surviving poems; moreover, even though he was known for his skill in composing prose pieces in the recognized genres of his day (especially as a writer of commissioned compositions), very little of his prose has been translated. This translation will enable students with limited or no knowledge of Chinese to get a full sense of Wang Wei's compositional range. Moreover, since Wang Wei was known for being a devout Buddhist, having the complete poetry available in reliable translation as well as all of the prose that is connected to the Buddhist faith will be useful to students of Chinese religion.

Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco es bien recordado como portavoz de la reforma moral en la España progresista de principios del XVI, crítico implacable de los males de la Iglesia en el Concilio de Trento, obispo de Calahorra, aliado de Bartolomé de las Casas en el Consejo de Indias, y autor de libros de éxito concebidos para guiar a eclesiásticos de todo rango hacia una conducta más ética. No es tan sabido, en cambio, que era un buen conocedor de la tradición satírica clásica, como evidencia este irónico diálogo menipeo casi olvidado, el Colloquium elegans, que se desarrolla a las puertas del cielo. En él participan las almas recién llegadas de dos clérigos hipócritas y un pastor de ovejas arrepentido, que se defienden de las acusaciones de un demonio que pugna por llevárselos al infierno. La obra se publicó en París solo varios años después de que lo escribiera Luco, siendo estudiante en Salamanca, y evoca los fantasmas del emperador Claudio en la Apocolocyntosis de Séneca y los del papa más notorio de la época, Julio II, en el Iulius exclusus de Erasmo; pero, además, presenta a unos personajes y unos temas que, en una mezcla de ingenio clásico y protesta ética, se plasmarán después en el Lazarillo de Tormes. Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco is best remembered as an outspoken crusader for moral reform in the progressive Spain of the early sixteenth century, unflinching critic of the church at the Council of Trent, bishop of Calahorra, ally of Bartolomé de las Casas on the Council of Indies, and author of best-selling books to lead all levels of clergy to more ethical behavior. Less well known is that he also knew the best of the satirical Classical tradition, as is made clear by his nearly forgotten and highly ironic Menippean dialogue. It wittily brings to life the struggle of a bishop, a priest and one repentant shepherd to refute the accusations of a perceptive and articulate demon intent on dragging them off to Hell. Published only in Paris several years after Luco wrote it while a student at Salamanca, it calls up the ghosts of the emperor Claudius in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and the age's most notorious pope in Erasmus'Iulius exclusus. It points as well to the characters and themes that would energize the Lazarillo de Tormes with a blend of classical wit and moral outrage.

This book defines'translationality'by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a humanities (phenomenological/performative) approach to translational medicine. It consists of three long essays: the first on the traditional medicine-in-literature side of the medical humanities, with a close look at a recent novel built around the Capgras delusion and other neurological misidentification disorders; the second beginning with the traditional history-of-medicine side of the medical humanities, but segueing into literary history, translation history, and translation theory; the third on the social neuroscience of translational hermeneutics. The conclusion links the discussion up with a humanistic (performative/phenomenological) take on translational medicine.

This book presents cutting-edge research in translation studies, offering stimulating discussions on translation and providing fresh perspectives on the field. Papers in Translation Studies features a selection of papers originally authored for this volume, addressing a variety of issues from different points of view and offering interesting contributions to the critical literature of the field. The volume provides useful resources that will be of great benefit for academics, students and practitioners.The contributions to this book promote research on translation theory and practice, and suggest ways of dealing with translation problems. The volume chapters are written by researchers from around the world, and consider various different languages and contexts. Areas of investigation include contrastive linguistics and translation, corpus-based translation studies, natural language processing, machine translation, and translator training.

The 1990s saw a paradigm change in the use of corpus-driven methods in NLP. In the field of multilingual NLP (such as machine translation and terminology mining) this implied the use of parallel corpora. However, parallel resources are relatively scarce: many more texts are produced daily by native speakers of any given language than translated. This situation resulted in a natural drive towards the use of comparable corpora, i.e. non-parallel texts in the same domain or genre. Nevertheless, this research direction has not produced a single authoritative source suitable for researchers and students coming to the field. The proposed volume provides a reference source, identifying the state of the art in the field as well as future trends. The book is intended for specialists and students in natural language processing, machine translation and computer-assisted translation.