A Short Reading List for Translation Studies^*

* Items in this bibliography are prepared using the APA writing style (APA Publication Manual. 6^th edition, 2010); but the first name of some authors, instead of being represented with its initial as stipulated in the Style, is usually spelled out to give the students a bit more information about the author. Texts in small fonts and within brackets provide additional information about the author and/or the work.

 

Legend:

*:   Important item [asterisk /?æst?r?sk /]	#:   Methodology / sourcebook / reference work [number sign: a symbol (#), used to represent the word “number” ??]
!:   Translation theory	@:  Linguistic / semiotic studies [at sign: an abbreviation of the word “at” in e-mail addresses, where it stands for “located at”]
^:  Socio-cultural / historical studies [caret: a mark to show the place where something is to be inserted ???]	~:   Technological / applied studies [tilde /?tild?/: a mark (~) used in this dictionary to replace the headword in certain parts of an entry ???]
%:  Literary / artistic studies	$:   Item published by ????????? in“????????”[dollar or peso sign: a symbol primarily used to indicate the various peso and dollar units of currency around the world]

 

*#American Psychological Association [APA]. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC?APA. xviii+273 pp.

~ Arnold, D., et al. (1994). Machine translation: An introductory guide. Blackwell Publishers [ISBN: 185554217X]

~ Austermühl, Frank. (2001). Electronic tools for translators. “Translation Practices Explained” (A. Pym [Ed.]). Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing. 192 pp. [ISBN: 1900650347; KP.]

*~Baker, Mona. (1992). In other words: A coursebook on translation. London & NY: Routledge. xix+654 pp. [ISBN: 0415030862; Amazon: $27; KP.]

*#Baker, Mona, & Saldanha, Gaby. (Eds.). (2009). The Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies (2nd ed.). Abingdon, Oxford & New York: Routledge. xxii+674 pp. [ISBN: 978-0-415-36930-5; KP.]

* Barkhudarov, L. C. (1985).???????(???, ??) . ?????????????. 215 pp. (Original work published 1975). [Univ. Lib.: J 19.21; KP.]

*@Barnwell, K. (1974/1980). Introduction to semantics and translation. High Wycombe , U.K.: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

$*Bassnett, Susan. (1980). Translation studies. London & NY: Methuen. [Univ./James Libs.: J 19/W 40; KP.]

$^Bassnett, Susan, & Lefevere, André. (Eds.). (1990). Translation, history and culture. London: Pinter. [Univ. / James Libs.: J19/W 69]

*#Blackburn, Simon. (2000). Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. ????????????. ix+418 pp.

*^Binkley, Luther J. (1969). Conflict of Ideals: changing values in western society. NY: Van Nostrand Peinhold Company. [Chinese edn. 1988.?????? ¾ ??????????????. (??? et al., Trans.). ??: ?????. 425 pp.]

^ Black, M., & Smalley, W. (Eds.). (1974). On Language, Culture, and Religion. in honor of Eugene A. Nida. The Hague: Mouton.

@ Blonsky, M. (1985). On Signs: A Semiotic Reader. Basil Blackwell.

*#Bochenski, J. M. (1987).????????(???, et al., Trans.). 1987. ??????????. 145 pp. [KP.]

~ Bowker, Lynne (2002). Computer-aided translation technology: A practical introduction. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. [ISBN: 0776630164; Amazon: $45.00.]

*#Brown, James Dean. (2001). Understanding research in second language learning [?????????——????????]. ????????????????????????: ???????. xxxii+219 pp. [KP.]

*^Bock, Philip. (1979). Modern Cultural Anthropology. (3rd. ed.) NY: Alfred & Knopf.

*^Bodde, Derk. (Ed.). (1981). Essays on Chinese Civilization. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.

*#Bullock, Alan, & Stallybrass, Oliver. (Eds.). (1977). The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought. London: Fontana/Collins. xix+684 pp.

*^Burling, A. (1970). Man’s Many Voices. language in its cultural context. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. [James Lib.: J 1/W 14]

*#Cao, Xueqin [???]. (1979).?????. 4 vols. ??????????.

*#__. (1973-1980). The story of the stone (David Hawkes & John Minford, Trans.) (Vols 1-4). Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books. (Original work published 1792) [Univ. lib. K275/W13e] [Vol. 1: KP.]

*#__. 1978, 1980. A dream of red mansions. (??? & ???, Trans.) (Vols 1-3). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press (Original work published 1792).

^ Casson, Ronald. (1981). Language, Culture and Cognition. anthropological perspectives. NY: Macmillan.

*#Chan, Sin-wai, & Pollard, David E. (Eds.). (1995). An Encyclopedia of Translation and Interpretation. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Pr.

~ Chau, S(imon). C. [???]. (1986).??????. ??: ?????????. 152 pp.

*^Chau, S(imon). C. [???]. (1996).???????. ????????????. vii+142 pp. [KP.]

*~Chen, Gang [??]. (2004).???????????. “????????? [???]”. ???????????????????.  xvii+440 pp. [KP.]

~ Chen, Hongwei [???]. (1996).???????????. ??????????. 332 pp. [KP.]

^ Chen Eoyang, Eugene. (1996). Translating as a Mode of Thinking; Translation as a Model of Thought. In Wang Ning & Xu Yanhong (Eds.), Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. Special issue: Chinese Translation Studies. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, Univ. of Copenhagen. 53-69.

*#Chen, Yanbin, & Zhang, Mingxin [???, ??? ??]. (2004).?????????????????. ??????????.382 pp. ?22.80. 100032???????36?. Tel 010-66171396, 66521270, 66521152.

^%Chen, Yugang, et al. [??? ?]. (1989).??????????. ?????????????. [KP.]

*#Cheng, Yuzhen [???]. (1998).????????. ?????????????. viii+404 pp. [KP.]

*~Chen, Zhenqiu [???]. (1980).????????. ????????. [Thought-provoking study of Chinese-English translation.]

*#The Committee on Bible Translation, International Bible Society. (1982). The Holy Bible. New international version. London/Sydney/Auckland/Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton. (1st edn. 1979.) 1264 pp. [KP.]

*#Cryer, Pat. (2004). The research student’s guide to success. ??: ????????? (Original publisher: Buckingham · Philadelphia: Open University Press). xii+276 pp. [KP.] [A very useful graduate study skills book, giving practical advice on aspects of undertaking research for a graduate qualification and degree.]

# Crystal, D. (1987). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. 472 pp.

*#Curie, Eve [??·??]. (1957).???????[Madame Curie] (Zuo Mingche ???, Trans.) (4th ed.). ????????. 358 pp. (Original work published 1938)

@ Deely, J. et al. (Eds.). (1986). Frontiers in Semiotics. Bloominton: Indiana Univ. Press.

*^Delisle, Jean, & Woodsworth, Judith. (Eds.). (1995). Translators Through History. The Benjamins Translation Library. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 345 pp. [??2-97 (???????) /H 059 /T771]

~ Diannaobao She. (Ed.) [?????? ??]. (2005).?Office?????????. ??????????. 180 pp. [ISBN: 7-81036-680-7; ?20.00; KP.]

# Ding, Qilin. (Ed.) [??? ??]. (1999).??????????. ????????????. vi+328 pp. [KP.]

~ Dollerup, Cay, & Loddegaard, Anne. (Eds.). (1992). Teaching Translation and Interpreting?Training, Talent and Experience. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co. [???]

@ Duff, A. (1981). The Third Language. Oxford: Pergamon.

@ Eco, Umberto. (1976). A Theory of Semiotics. Bloominton: Indiana University Press. [??2-88 /HO22 /E19]

@ __. (1984). The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Bloominton: Indiana Univ.

% Eagleton, Terry. (1983). Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher Limited. [Chinese. ed.: ???, Trans. 1987.????????????. ??: ?????????. 272 pp.]

^@Eschbach, A. et al. (Eds.). (1987). A Plea for Cultural Semiotics. Brockmeger.

*~Esselink, Bert. (2000). A practical guide to localization. “Language International World Directory” (Revised ed.). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 490 pp. [ISBN: 1588110060; $32.95; KP.]

% Feng, Huazhan [???]. (1987).????????. ????????. 228 pp.

# Feng Qinghua [??? ??]. (1997).????????. ??: ?????????. 586 pp. [KP.] [Contains about 100 E-C and C-E translation specimens gleaned from various sources, with different versions for about 30 of them ¾ a useful sourcebook of materials for comparison.]

*^Feng, Youlan [??? ?]. (1947). (1947????????????????????) [Chinese edn.: (???, Trans.). 1985.????????. ??: ???????. 395 pp.]

! Frawley, W. (Ed.). (1984). Translation: Literary, Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives. Newark, DE.: Univ. of Delaware Pr.

*^Gabel, John, & Wheeler, Charles. (1986). The Bible as Literature. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. [Chinese edn.: (?? et al., Trans.).??????????. 1991. ??: ?????. 300 pp.]

$!Gentzler, Edwin. (1993). Contemporary translation theories. London & NY: Routledge. 224 pp+xiv. [James. Lib.: H 059 /X5; ???H 059 /G 289; KP.]

  Gu, Hongming [???]. (1998). The Spirit of Chinese. Beijing: Foreign Language Press.

*^Gu, Weimin [???]. (1996).????????????.“?????????”. ???????. 558 pp. [KP.]

*!Guo, Jianzhong [???]. (2000a). ??????????. ??: ???????. vii+343 pp. [KP.]

*^ __. (2000b).???????. 1997?????????????. ?????????????. xv+440 pp. [KP.]

^ Grant, Frederick. (1961). Translating the Bible. Greenwich: Seabury. 183 pp. [Univ. Lib.: B 971 /X 14]

^@Greimas, A. et al. (Eds.). (1983). Sign, Language, Culture. The Hague: Mouton.

~ Grefenstette, Gregory. (1998). Cross-language information retrieval. Kluwer Academic Publishing. [ISBN: 079238122X; Amazon: $70.00]

$!Gutt, Ernst-August. (1991). Translation and relevance: Cognition and context. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. [??2-92/H059/G98] [???]

# Hardy, Thomas. (1984). Tess of the D’Urbervilles????????(English-Chinese bilingual edn. ???, Trans.) ??????????. [KP.]

$@Hatim, B., & Mason, I. (1990). Discourse and the translator. London: Longman. xiv+258 pp. [Contains a rich chapter on intertextuality, which develops the notion in the light of recent research and abundantly exemplifies theoretical concepts from translation practice; ISBN: 0582021901; Amazon: 63.98 (used)]

$ Hatim, Basil. (1997). Communication across cultures: Translation theory and contrastive text linguistics. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

*~__. (2005). Teaching and Researching Translation. ??: ??????????. xxi+254 pp. [KP.]

~ Hauenschild, Christa, & Heizmann, Susanne (Eds.). (1998). Machine translation and translation theory. “Text, Translation, Computational Processing, 1”. Mouton: De Gruyter. [ISBN: 3110154862; Amazon: $93.35]

#@Hawkes, Terence. (1984). Structuralism and Semiotics. London & NY: Methuen.

$ Hickey, Leo. (Ed.). (1998). The pragmatics of translation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. viii+242 pp. [Collected papers; ISBN: 1853594040; Amazon: $34.95]

*@Hodge, Robert, & Kress, Gunther. (1988). Social Semiotics. Cornell Univ. Press.

^ Hu, Wenzhong. (Ed.) [?????]. (1994).???????(???) . ??: ??????????. 558 pp.

*@Innis, Robert E. (Ed.). (1985). Semiotics: an introductory anthology. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.

! Holmes, James S. (1988/1972). The Name and Nature of Translation Studies. In Holmes, James S. Translated! Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies (pp. 67-80). Approaches to Translation Studies 7. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi. [Paper given at the Third International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Copenhagen, August 21-26.]

*!Holmes, James S. (1972/75). The Name and Nature of Translation Studies. Amsterdam: Translation Studies Section, Department of General Studies.

*%__, Lambert, José, & Van den Broeck, Raymond. (1978). Literature and Translation. Leuven: Acco.

*^Huang, Mingfen [??? ?]. (1997).???????????????. ????????. 285 pp. [KP.]

*^Hung, Eva [???]. (1999).??? · ?? · ???. ??????????. 220 pp.

~ Hutchins, W. J. (1986). Machine Translation: Past, Present, Future. Chichester, U.K.: Ellis Horwood.

*^Hymes, D. (Ed.). (1964). Language in Culture and Society ¾ A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology. NY: Harper & Row. 764 pp. [A reader in linguistic anthropology; Review: ???. 1984.??????????: ????????????.???????, No. 1 [1984], 40-44]

@ Jakobson, R. (1959). On linguistic aspects of translation. In R.A. Brower (Ed.), On Translation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.

*~James, C. (2001). Errors in Language Learning and Use: Exploring Error Analysis. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

% Jauss, Hans Robert. (1982). Toward an Aesthetic of Reception. (Timothy Bahti, Trans.). Minneapolis: Minnesota Univ. Press.

*^Jin, Kemu [???]. (1984).????????. ??: ?????. 266 pp.

@ Kates, C. (1980). Semantics and Pragmatics. Cornell Univ. Press.

*~Ke, Ping [??]. (1991/1993).???????????. ??????????. 206/209 pp. [KP.]

*@__. (1996).  A Socio-semiotic Approach to Meaning in Translation. Babel: International Journal of Translation, 42 [No 2 / 1996], 74-83. [KP.]

! __. (1997). ????????. ????????????, 1997????, ?12-23?. [KP.]

^ __. (1999). Cultural Presuppositions and Misreading. META, 44 [No 1 / 1999], 133-143. [KP.]

~ __. (2002). ???????????????????. (??????) (?????) (With ???).??????2002??4?52-55?; ?5?52-59?; ?6??45-51?.

$^Kelly, L. G. (1973). The true interpreter: A history of translation theory and practice in the west. Oxford: Blackwell.

@ Kennedy, Graeme D. (1998). An introduction to corpus linguistics. “Studies in Language and Linguistics”. Longman. 320 pp. [ISBN: 058223154X; Amazon: $31.80; KP.]

^@Koch, W. A. (Ed.). (1989). Culture and Semiotics. Brockmeyer.

*@Krampen, Martin, et al. (1987). Classics of semiotics. NY & London: Plenum Press. xv+271 pp. [A beginner’s book designed to usher the reader into the realm of semiotic studies] [??: E/I (2)7/C614]

@^Kress,  G.  (2010).  Multimodality:  A  social  semiotic  approach  to contemporary communication. London/New York: Routledge. [Multimodal communication studied from the perspective of social semiotics, which is regarded as the semiotic strand deriving from the writings of M. A. K. Halliday.]

#~Landau, Sidney I. (2005).????????????.  (???, ???, Trans.) (2nd ed.). ???????? (Original work published 2001). [ISBN: 7-100-04429-4/H•1107; KP.]

% Landers, Clifford E. (2008). Literary Translation: A Practical Guide. ????????? (MTI) ????“????????-1”. ???????????? (Originally published by Mulilingual Matters Ltd. in 2001). vi+214 pp. [KP.]

@ Larson, M. L. (1984). Meaning-Based Translation: A Guide to Cross-Language Equivalence. Larham: Univ. Press of America. [???2-88 /H315.9 /L33]

*@Leech, Geoffrey. (1974, 1981). Semantics: the Study of Meaning. Harmondsworth: Penguin. [Univ./ James Libs.: J 11/ W 69; School Lib.: 21785 ?? PE-4]

*^Lefevere, André. (1990). Translation: Its Genealogy in the West. In Susan Bassnett & André Lefevere (Eds.), Translation, History and Culture. London: Pinter.

#^Lefevere, André. (Ed.). (1992). Translation, history, culture: A sourcebook. London: Routledge. 182 pp+xiv. [James Lib.: H 059/X 6]

~ Li, Changshuan [???] [?????????] ??. (2004).????????????. ?????????????. xxii+589 pp. [????? “?????????” (“??”??????) ??]

*~Li, Kexing, & Zhang, Xinhong [???, ???]. (2006).???????????.“????????? [???]”. ???????????????????. xix+591 pp. [KP.]

^ Li Ruihua [???]. (1996).????????????. ??: ?????????. 691 pp.

@ Li, Youzheng [???]. (1993).?????????. ??: ?????????.

^ Li, Zehou [???]. (1987).??????????. ??: ?????. 345 pp.

*%Liang, Shiqiu, & Yu, Kwang-chung [???, ???]. (1970).???????. ????????.

! Liao, Qiyi, et al. [???? ??]. (2001).??????????. ??????????. 476 pp.

*#Lin, Huangtian [??? ??]. (1997).????????. ??????????. 1327 pp.

# Liu, Ching-chih [???]. (1981).??????. ??: ?????.

*#Liu Runqing [???]. (1999).????????????. ?????????????. 235 pp.

*#Luo, Lingling [???]. (2002).???????. ??????????. 258 pp. ?24.00. 410082?????????????. Tel 0731-8821692, 8821315.

* Lü, Shuxiang. (Ed.). [???]. (1980a).????????. ??: ?????????. 214 pp.

# __. (Ed.) [???]. (1980b).??????????. ??: ???????. 132 pp.

*#Lü, Shuxiang, & Xu, Yuanzhong ???, ??? ?. (1988).????????(???) . ????????.

*#Luo, Xinzhang (Ed.) [??? ?]. (1984).??????. ????????.

*#Ma, Guanghui [??? ??]. (2003).?????????????????. ??????????????. 154 pp. [KP.]

*^Ma, Zuyi [???]. (1984).???????: ???????. ??: ??????????. 333 pp. [Univ. Lib.: J289.7]

# Mao, Dun [??]. (1983).????. ??????????.

# __. (1979). Midnight (Hsu Meng-hsiung & A.C. Barnes, Trans.). Peking: Foreign Languages Press. (Univ. Lib. K276/W10e)]

*#Matthews, P. H. (2000). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. ????????????. xii+410 pp. [KP.]

^ Macura, Vladimir. (1990). Culture as translation. In Susan Bassnett & André Lefevere. (Eds.). 1990.

*!Munday, Jeremy. [University of Surrey] (2001). Introducing translation studies: Theories and applications. London: Routledge. xv+221 pp. [Accompanying website of the book: www.routledge.com/textbooks/its.html] [Coursebook for “Introduction to Translation Studies” (NU). ISBN: 0-415-22927-8.; MIIS Lib, KP.]

__. (2016). Introducing translation studies: Theories and applications. London: Routledge. xv+221 pp.  [Coursebook for “Introduction to Translation Studies” (NU). ISBN:  978-1-138-91255-7 (pbk) / ISBN: 978-1-315-69186-2 (ebk). KP.]

*^Nakamura, Hajime [???]. (1981). Ways of thinking of eastern peoples; India, China, Tibet, Japan. (Rev. Eng. Trans. & Ed., Philip P. Wiener). Honolulu: the University of Hawaii Press. [KP.]

*#Nan, Yong [??]. (2011). ???????. ??????????. xii+301 pp. [ISBN: 978-7-5404-5168-4; Price: ¥35.] [KP.] [An interesting work on economics, written in a lively and witty style. It may not only help you to handle your economic affairs wisely, but also teach you how to analyze your object of research cool-headedly and methodically in defiance of a myriad of misleading statements or false claims.]

@ Neubert, A., & Gregory, M. (1992). Translation as text. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University [??;???]

$@Newmark, Peter. (1981). Approaches to translation. Oxford: Pergamon Press. [Univ./James/Sch. Libs.: J 19/W 43; School Lib.: 18466 ?? PE-4]

$~Newmark, Peter. (1988). A textbook of translation. London: Prentice Hall. [Sch. Lib.: J 19/W 58; 21871 ??PE-3]

@ __. (1991). About translation. Multilingual Matters Ltd. [??2-92 /HO59 /N55] [????]

$@Nida, E. A., & Taber, C. R. (1969). The theory and practice of translation. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

*^__., & Reyburn, William. (1981). Meaning across cultures. “American Society of Missiology Series, No. 4”. NY: Orbis Books. 90 pp. [Expounding on the communicative approach] [Univ. Lib.: B 961/W 14; KP.]

@ __. (1982). Translating Meaning. [a lecture series sponsored by Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages] San Dimas, California: English Language Institute.

@ __. Waard, J. de, and. (1987). From One Language to Another. NY: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

*!__. (1989). Theories of translation.?????, No. 6 [1989], 2-9. [KP.]

^ __. (1993). Language, culture, and translating. ????????????. [Univ. Lib.: H0/X22; KP.]

$ Nord, Christiane. (1997). Translating as a purposeful activity: Functional approach explained. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing. 160 pp. [ISBN 1-900650-02-9; $30]

~ Nirenburg, Sergei, et al. (Eds). (2002). Readings in machine translation. MIT Press. [ISBN: 0262140748]

~ O’Hagan, Minako, & Ashworth, David. (2002). Translation-mediated communication in a digital world: Facing the challenges of globalization and localization. “Topics in Translation, 23”. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. [ISBN: 1853595802; Amazon: $24.95]

*#Owen, Stephen [????]. (Ed & Trans.). (1996). An anthology of Chinese literature, beginnings to 1911. New York: Norton & Co. [Over 600 selections, all translated by Owen himself; the most influential Chinese anthology published in English in recent years.] [ISBN: 0393971066; Amazon: $ 56.10; KP.]

@ Pan, Wenguo [??? ?]. (1997).?????????. ??: ???????????. vi+386 pp.

^ Partridge, A. C. (1973). English Biblical Translation. London:.

*#Picken, Catriona (Ed.). (1989). The Translator’s Handbook (2nd ed.). London: Aslib, The Association for Information Management. [??2-89 /HO59-62 /T77]

# Pound, Ezra. (1915). Cathay. London: E. Mathews.

*#Qiu, Renzong [???]. (1984).???????????——?????????. ????????. 216 pp. [KP.]

*~Pinkham, Joan. (2000). Translator’s guide to Chinglish (????????). ?????????????. vi+561 pp. [KP.]

*~Quah, C. K. (2008). Translation and technology (???????).  “?????????????” ????????. ??: ?????????. 221 pp. (Original work [Translation and technology. Palgrave Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.] published 2006) [ISBN: 978-1-4039-1832-1. £18.99. TOC: http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20379028]

^ Rado, G. (1967). Approaching the history of translation, Babel 13, 169-173.

% Raffel, Burton.(1988). The Art of translating poetry. Univ. Park: The Pennsylvania State Univ. Press.

*#Richards, J. et al. (1985). Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics. Harlow: Longman. 323 pp. [Chinese edn.: ??? ?. 1988.???????????. ??: ???????. 561 pp.]

~ Robinson, Douglas. (1997). Becoming a translator : An accelerated course. London & NY: Routledge. 368 pp. [ISBN: 0415148618; Price: $24.99; MIIS Lib.]

# Roizen, Michael F, M. D., & Oz, Mehmet, C. M. D. (2006). You: Shenti Shiyong Shouce?YOU:???????[??, ?? ????? ??]. ????????. 330 pp. (Original work [You: The owner’s manual: An insider’s guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger] copyrighted 2005 by Roizen and Oz) [ISBN: 7-5447-0048-8; Price: ¥29.] [KP.] [An accessible volume on personal medicine, very useful for helping you and yours to keep body and soul reasonably well.]

* Rose, Marilyn (Ed.). (1981). Translation Spectrum: Essays in Theory and Practice. Albany: State Univ. of NY. [Includes many interesting papers] [Univ. Lib.: J 19/W 31]

*^Russell, Bertrand. (1955). A history of western philosophy. And its connection with political and social circumstances from the earliest times to the present day. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

*^ __. (1982).???????(???, ???, Trans.). (2 vols.). ????????. Vol 1: 590 pp; Vol 2: 491 pp. [KP.]

~ Sager, Juan C. (1995). Language engineering and translation: Consequences of automation. “The Benjamins Translation Library”. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 346 pp. [??; ISBN: 1556194773]

^ Salzmann, Zdenek. (1993). Language, Culture, and Society: an introduction to linguistic anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: West View Press. [??2-94/H0/S18; ISBN: 0813334047; Amazon: $40.00]

^ Sapir, Edward. (1921). Language. NY: Harcourt Brace. [Chinese edn.: (???, Trans.).????——???????. 1964. ??: ?????.]

$%Savory, T. H. (1957). The Art of Translation. London: Cape. [???En /IO46 /A784]

^ Schäffner, Christina, & Kelly-Holms, H. (Eds.). (1995). Cultural functions of translation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd. [Essays and debates on the effects of translated texts in the target culture and on translation as way of forming cultural identities.] [??2-96 /HO59 /C96; ISBN: 1853593338]

*~ Schaffner, Christina (Ed.). (2000). Translation in the Global Village (Current Issues in Language and Society). Multilingual Matters. [ISBN: 1853594881; Amazon: $44.95]

^ Schwarz, W. (1955). Principles and Problems of Biblical Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

^ __. (1963). The History of the Principles of Bible Translation in the Western World, Babel. 9, 5-22.

#@Sebeok, Thomas (Ed.). (1994). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. “Approaches to Semiotics, No 73”. 2nd Rv & upd edn. Berlin/NY/Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter. [ISBN: 3110142295; Amazon: $198.00]

#@__. (1986). Encyclopedia of Semiotics. V.1-3. The Hague: Mouton.

@ Seuren, P. A. M. (1985). Discourse Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell. [?? 2-86 /HO30 /S49]

*#Shao, Xiantu [???? ?]. (1988).?????????. ??: ???????. 324 pp.

# Shen, Fu [??]. (1999).??????(???????????, Trans.) . ?????????????. xxiii+327 pp.

^ Shen, Fuwei [??? ?]. (1985).?????????. “???????” (??? ??) . ??????????. 469 pp.

^ Shen, Xiaolong [???]. (1992).???????. ??: ???????.

*#???????????. (1997). (???????????) (Originally published by ?????? in 1979). 963+342+lxx pp. [KP.]

# Shirer, William. (1983). The fall of the Third Reich???????? · ????. (Abridged English-Chinese bilingual edition. ???, et al., Trans.). ?????????????. 203 pp. [KP.]

*#Shuttleworth, Mark, & Cowie, Moira. 1997. Dictionary of translation studies. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing. xvii+233 pp.

^@Shukman, A. (Ed.). (1984). The Semiotics of Russian Culture. Michigan Univ. Press.

! Snell-Hornby, Mary. (1988). Translation Studies: an integrated approach. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

^ Snell-Hornby, Mary, Zusana, Jettmarovo, & Kaindle, Klaus. (Eds.). (1997). Translation as Intercultural Communication. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co. [???; ISBN: 1556197020; Amazon: 87.00]

# Sofer, Morry. (2000). The translator’s handbook (3^rd ed.). Rockville, MD: Schreiber Publishing. 400 pp. [ISBN: 1887563482; Price: $24.95; KP.]

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????????????????????? George Steiner 30.00    2001/9

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??????????????????? Lawrence Venuti ? 22.00    2004/6

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