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A Dictionary of Translation and Interpreting by John Laver, R.E. Asher, Ronnie Cann, Jim Miller, Raymond D. Kent, Colin Yallop, Trevor Harley, Ian Mason, Michael K.C. MacMahon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Dictionary of Translation and Interpreting about?

This dictionary began life as part of a much larger project: The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Speech and Language (General Editors John Laver and Ron Asher), involving nearly 40 authors and covering all fields in any way related to speech or language. The project, which from conception to completion lasted some 25 years, was finally delivered to the publisher in 2013. A contract had been signed but unfortunately, during a period of ill health of editor-inchief John Laver, the publisher withdrew from the contract and copyright reverted to each individual contributor. Translation Studies does not lack encyclopaedic information. Dictionaries, encyclopaedias, handbooks and readers abound, offering full coverage of the field. Nevertheless, it did seem that it would be a pity that the vast array of scholarship that went into The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Speech and Language should come to nought. Consequently, we offer this small sub-part of the entire project as a free-to-use online resource in the hope that it will prove to be of some use, at least to undergraduate and postgraduate students of translation studies – and perhaps to others too. Each entry consists of a headword, followed

Who reads A Dictionary of Translation and Interpreting?

Author

John Laver, R.E. Asher, Ronnie Cann, Jim Miller, Raymond D. Kent, Colin Yallop, Trevor Harley, Ian Mason, Michael K.C. MacMahon

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780631224198

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Linguistics

Updated

2026-03-24