Translating for Singing: The Theory, Art and Craft of Translating Lyrics

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Title: Translating for Singing
Subtitle: The Theory, Art and Craft of Translating Lyrics
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation

Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/translating-for-singing-9781472571885/

Author: Ronnie Apter
Author: Mark Herman

Electronic: ISBN:  9781472571915 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: EPUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781472571908 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781472571892 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781472571885 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 19.99

Abstract:

Translating for Singing discusses the art and craft of translating singable
lyrics, a topic of interest in a wide range of fields, including translation,
music, creative writing, cultural studies, performance studies, and semiotics.
Previously, such translation has most often been discussed by music critics,
many of whom had neither training nor experience in this area. Written by two
internationally known translators, the book focusses mainly on practical
techniques for creating translations meant to be sung to pre-existing music,
with suggested solutions to such linguistic problems as those associated with
rhythm, syllable count, vocal burden, rhyme, repetition and sound. Translation
theory and translations of lyrics for other purposes, such as surtitles, are
also covered.

The book can serve as a primary text in courses on translating lyrics and as a
reference and supplementary text for other courses and for professionals in
the fields mentioned. Beyond academia, the book is of interest to professional
translators and to librettists, singers, conductors, stage directors, and
audience members.

Case Studies in Discourse Analysis

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Title: Case Studies in Discourse Analysis
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 29

Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://bit.ly/23vcDAW

Editor: Marcel Danesi
Author: Sara Greco Morasso

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862887095 Pages: 428 Price: Europe EURO 162.80

Abstract:

Discourse permeates human life, manifesting itself in all kinds of speech
acts, from conversations to clinical dialogues between a patient and
practitioner. While discourse has been studied within specific disciplines,
including linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, over the last few decades
an autonomous approach, known as Discourse Analysis, has emerged to develop
its own theoretical and research agendas aimed at penetrating the nature and
role of discourse in human life. This collection of case studies in discourse
aims to examine these agendas in specific situations, and thus to contribute
to the growing significance of this exciting field of inquiry. It thus
presents a composite picture of what discourse analysis is and what it allows
us to do in the area of speech analysis. The chapters deal with the kinds of
discourses that characterize medical communication, media and public
discourse, conflict resolution and reconciliation, juridical communication,
gastronomical language, text messaging, education, and others. Written by
active researchers in the fields of discourse analysis proper and its
correlative field of argumentation theory, both the expert and the neophyte
will be able to glean from the various chapters how this new discipline is
evolving and what it can achieve in shedding light on the complexities of
human interaction.

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