De La Salle University - Manila

Pathfinder : Translating and Interpreting

Scope Note:

Translating and interpreting is the application of bilingual skills to transferring meaning across two languages, accurately and impartially, in order to facilitate communication in a range of cross-cultural communication settings.

[Quoted from http://www.rmit.edu.au/programs/c6067] 

Use For :

• Interpretation and translation
• Interpreting and translating
• Language and languages – Translating
• Literature – Translating
• Translation and interpretation

Broader Term :

• Language and languages
• Translators

Narrower Terms :

• Closed captioning
• Court interpreting and translating
• Dubbing of motion pictures
• Dubbing of television programs
• Folk poetry – Translating
• Information theory in translating
• Simultaneous interpreting
• Translating services

[Source : Library of Congress Subject Headings, Z 695 L5 2001 v.5]

BOOKS

Reference sources located at the Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor: 

• Encyclopedia of literary translation into english. Olive Classe. PN 241 E5 2000 v.1
• Literary translation : a practical guide. Clifford E. Landers. PN 241 L36 2001
• The map : a beginner's guide to doing research in translation studies. Jenny Williams and Andrew Chesterman. P306.5 .W54 2002
• Meaning-based translation : a guide to cross-language equivalence. Mildred L. Larson. P306 .L37 1998
• The Oxford history of literary translation in english. PR131.O95 v.3
• A practical guide for translators. Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown. P 306 S25 1998
• Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies. Mona Baker. P 306 R68 1998
• Russian-english translators dictionary: a guide to scientific and technical usage. Mikhail G. Zimmerman. Q 123 T75 1967
• Translation teaching, from research to the classroom : a handbook for teachers. Sonia Colina. P306.5 .C65 2003
• Translation & translators : an international directory and guide. Stefan Congrat-Butlar. P 306 A2 T7 1979

Texts located at the Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall Library, 2nd floor: 

• After babel : aspects of language and translation. George Steiner. P 306 S74 1976a
• Incorporating corpora : the linguist and the translator. Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers. P306.2 .I525 2008 [IN_CATALOGING]

Texts located at the Circulation Section 3rd, floor:

• About translation. Peter Newmark. P 306 N478 1991
• Across the lines : travel, language, translation. Michael Cronin. P106 .C76 2000
• After babel : aspects of language and translation. George Steiner. P 306 S74 1998
• Approaches to translation. P 306 N48 1982
• The art of translating prose. Burton Raffel. PN 241 R34 1994
• The art of translation : voices from the field. Rosanna Warren. PN 241 A77 1989
• Asian translation traditions. Eva Hung and Judy Wakabayashi. P306.8.A78 A84 2005
• Becoming a translator : an accelerated course. Douglas Robinson. P306 .R64 1997
• Becoming a translator : an introduction to the theory and practice of translation. Douglas Robinson. P306 .R64 2003
• The coming industry of teletranslation : overcoming communication barriers through telecommunication. Minako O'Hagan. P 306.2 O34 1996
• Communication across cultures : translation theory and contrastive text linguistics. Basil Hatim. HM 258 H37 1997
• A companion to translation studies. Piotr Kuhiwczak and Karin Littau. P306 .C655 2007 [IN_CATALOGING]
• Compositional translation. M.T. Rosetta. P 308 R67 1994
• Computers in translation : a practical appraisal. John Newton.  P 308 C65 1992
• Contemporary translation theories. Edwin Gentzler. P 306 G46 2001
• The craft of translation. John Biguenet and Rainer Schulte. P 306 C7 1989
• Cross-linguistic variation in system and text : a methodology for the investigation of translations and comparable texts. Elke Teich. P134 .T45 2003
• Cross-words : issues and debates in literary and non-literary translating. Ian Mason and Christine Pagnoulle. PN 241 C76 1995
• Culture bumps : an empirical approach to the translation of allusions. Ritva Leppihalme. P 306.2 L46 1997
• The dead sea scrolls uncovered : the first complete translation and interpretation of 50 key documents withheld for over 35 years. Robert H. Eisenman and Michael Wise. BM 487 A3 1992
• Developing translation competence. Christina Schaffner and Beverly Adab. P 306.5 D48 2000
• Dutch novels translated into english: the transformation of a literature. Ria Vanderauwera. PT 5336 V36 1985
• The ear of the other: otobiography, transference, translation: texts and discussions with Jacques Derrida. CT25 .D4713 1985
• Echoes of translation : reading between texts. Rainer Nagele. P 306 N34 1997
• Empirical methods for exploiting parallel texts. I. Dan Melamed. P309 .M45 2001
• Expanding definitions of giftedness : the case of young interpreters from immigrant communities. Guadalupe Valdâes.
• Gender in translation : cultural identity and the politics of transmission. Sherry Simon. PN 241 S54 1996
• In other words : a coursebook on translation. Mona Baker. P 306 B25 1992
• Interpretation as pragmatics. Jean-Jacques Lecercle. P 306.2 L4 1999
• Interpretatio: language and translation from Cicero to Tytler. Frederick M. Rener. P 306 R46 1989
• Interpreting as a discourse process. Cynthia B. Roy. P 306.2 R69 2000
• Introducing translation studies : theories and applications. Jeremy Munday. P 306. M865 2008 [IN_CATALOGING]
• Investigating translation : selected papers from the 4th International Congress on Translation, Barcelona, 1998. Allison Beeby, Doris Ensinger and Marisa Presas. P306 I57 1998
• Invisible work : Borges and translation. Efraín Kristal. PQ7797.B635 Z77155 2002
• Language across boundaries : selected papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, September 2000. Janet Cotterill and Anne Ife. P40 .B74 2000
• Lost in translation. Nicole Mones. PS3563.O519 L67 1998
• Machine translation and the lexicon : third International EAMT Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, April 26-28, 1993 : proceedings. P 309 I57 1993
• Machine translation : a view from the lexicon. Bonnie Jean Dorr. P 308 D67 1993
• The medieval translator. Roger Ellis and Ruth Evans. P 306 M4 v. 4
• Memes of translation : the spread of ideas in translation theory. Andrew Chesterman. P 306 C44 1997
• Oppositional voices : women as writers and translators of literature in the english renaissance. Tina Krontiris. PR 113 K76 1997
• Parallel text processing : alignment and use of translation corpora. Jean Véronis. P308 .P37 2000
• The poetics of imperialism : translation and colonization from the tempest to Tarzan. Eric Cheyfitz. PS 169 I45 C44 1997
• The poetics of translation : history, theory, practice. Willis Barnstone. P306 .B36 1993
• Post-colonial translation : theory and practice. Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi. P 306.2 P67 1999
• The pragmatics of translation. Leo Hickey. P 306.2 P7 1998
• Readings in machine translation. Sergei Nirenburg, Harold Somers, and Yorick Wilks. P308 .R4 2003
• Rebuilding babel : the translations of W.H. Auden. Nirmal Dass. PR 6001 U4 Z64 1993
• Recent advances in example-based machine translation. Michael Carl and Andy Way. P308 .R44 2003
• Rimbaud's rainbow : literary translation in higher education. Peter Bush and Kirsten Malmkjur. PN 241 R55 1998
• Scandals of translation : towards an ethics of difference. Lawrence Venuti. P 306.2 V45 1998
• Speech-to-speech translation : a massively parallel memory-based approach. Hiroaki Kitano.  P 308 K57 1994
• Ten papers on translation. Richard B. Noss. P 306 T46 1982
• The science of linguistics in the art of translation: some tools from linguistics for the analysis and practice of translation. Joseph L. Malone. P 306.2 M34 1988
• Translation. Alan Duff. PN 241 D84 1991
• Translation : an advanced resource book. Basil Hatim and Jeremy Munday. P306 .H379 2004 [IN_CATALOGING]
• Translation in context : selected contributions from the EST Congress, Granada, 1998. Andrew Chesterman, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador and Yves Gambier. P306 E17 1998
• Translation engines : techniques for machine translation. Arturo Trujillo.  P308 .T78 1999
• Translation in the global village. Christina Schaffner. P 306.2 T69 2000
• Translation and globalization. Michael Cronin. P306.97.G5 C76 2003
• Translation, history, and culture. Susan Bassnets and Andre Lefevere. P 306 T64 1995
• Translation--history, culture : a sourcebook. Andre Lefevere. P 306 T645 1992
• Translation and medicine. Henry Fischbach. PN 241 T75 1998
• Translation of poetry and poetic prose : proceedings of Nobel Symposium 110. Sture Allén. PN1059 T7 N6 1998
• Translation and power. Maria Tymoczko and Edwin Gentzler. P306.97.S63 T7 2002
• Translation, power, subversion. Roman Alvarez and M. Carmen Africa Vidal. P 306.2 T7 1996
• Translation into the second language. Stuart Campbell. P 306 C35 1998
• The translation studies reader. Lawrence Venuti. P 306 T65 2000
• Translation studies : an interdiscipline. Mary Snell-Hornby, Franz Pochhacker and Klaus Kaindl. P 306 T648 1994
• Translation studies : the state of the art : proceedings of the first James S. Holmes symposium on translation studies. Kitty M. van Leuven-Zwart Ton Naaijkens. P 306 J35 1990
• Translations from early Japanese literature. Edwin O. Reischauer and Joseph K. Yamagiwa. PL 782 E1 T72 1972
• Translating by factors. Christoph Gutknecht and Lutz J. Rolle. P 306 G87 1996
• Translating literature. Susan Bassnett for the English Association. PN 241 T74 1997
• Translating literature : practice and theory in a comparative literature context. Andre Lefevere. PN 241 L44 1992
• Translating sensitive texts : linguistic aspects. Karl Simms. P 306 T6 1997
• Translating into success : cutting-edge strategies for going multilingual in a global age. PN 886 T7 2000
• On translating French literature and film. Geoffrey T. Harris. PQ 144 O5 1996
• The Translator's art: essays in honour of Betty Radice. William Radice and Barbara Reynolds. P 306 T7 1987
• The translator as communicator. Basil Hatim and Ian Mason. P 306 H37 1997
• The translator's invisibility : a history of translation. Lawrence Venuti. P 306.2 V46 1995
• Two worlds, one art : literary translation in Russia and America. Lauren G. Leighton. PN 241 L45 1991
• Verbmobil : foundations of speech-to-speech translation. Wolfgang Wahlster  P308 .V47 2000
• Voices in translation : bridging cultural divides. Gunilla Anderman. PN241 .V583 2007 [IN_CATALOGING]

Texts located at the Filipiniana Section, 4th floor:

• Apat na siglo ng pagsasalin : bibliograpiya ng mga pagsasalin sa Filipinas, 1593-1998. Lilia Francisco Antonio. Z 7004 T72 A57 1999
• Sa ibang salita : sampung sanaysay sa siningsalin. Buenaventura S. Medina. P306 .M44 2001
• Manwal sa pagsasalin. P306.8P6 M36 2003
• Pagsasaling-wika : behikulo sa pagpapalaganap ng Filipino. Lilia F. Antonio, Wilfreda J. Legaspi and Ofelia J. Silapan. PN 241.5 P6 P34 1995
• The promise of the foreign : nationalism and the technics of translation in the Spanish Philippines. Vicente L. Rafael. DS675 .R34 2006
• Sining ng pagsasaling-wika sa Filipino mula sa Ingles. Alfonso O. Santiago. PN 241.5 P6 S25 1994
• Sining ng pagsasaling-wika. Alfonso O. Santiago. PN 241.5 P6 S25 1976

Texts located at the Special Collection, Archives Section, 4th floor: 

• Abueg Collection

• Sining ng pagsasaling-wika. Alfonso O. Santiago. PN 241.5 P6 S25 1976

• Bautista Collection

• Sa ibang salita : sampung sanaysay sa siningsalin. Buenaventura S. Medina. P306 .M44 2001

• I.R. Cruz Collection

• After babel : aspects of language and translation. George Steiner. P306 S74 1976a
• Translating literature : practice and theory in a comparative literature context. Andre Lefevere. PN 241 L44 1992

• Salazar Collection

• Pagsasakatutubo sa pagsasalin : ang nilalaman at pamamaraan ng pagsasalin ng nobela sa panahon ng kolonyalismong Amerikano, 1912-1940. Lilia F. Antonio. PL6164.4 A57 1987 [IN_CATALOGING]

• Sibayan Collection

• Meaning-based translation : a guide to cross-language equivalence. Mildred L. Larson. P306 .L37 1984

• Sotto Collection

• The translator's art: essays in honour of Betty Radice. William Radice and Barbara Reynolds. P 306 T7 1987

PERIODICALS

PRINT

European Documentation Centre (EDC), 1st floor:

• Terminologie et traduction

Periodicals Section, 2nd floor:

• Meta Translators Journal
• Renditions
• Translation
• Translation Review

ELECTRONIC

JSTOR
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

• TESOL Quarterly

• Language and thought : effect of translation vs interpretation. Robert Lado. TESOL Quarterly 13 (4) : December 1979. p. 565+

• Journal of the American Oriental Society

• Translation. Edward E. Salisbury. Journal of the American Oriental Society 2 : 1851. p. 279+

• Mind

• Decipherment, translation, interpretation. B. C. Hurst. Mind, New Series 92 (366) : April 1983. p. 247+

• Anthropology & Education Quarterly

• Translating competence in a critical bilingual classroom. Melisa Cahnmann. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 36 (3) : September 2005. p. 230+

• The Journal of Asian Studies

• On translation. James T. C. Liu. The Journal of Asian Studies 36 (2) : February 1977. p. 402+

• International Journal of American Linguistics

• Multiple stage translation. C. F. Voegelin. International Journal of American Linguistics 20 (4) : October 1954. p. 271+

• The English Journal

• The need for interpretation. Edward J. Gordon. The English Journal 34 (7) : September 1945. p. 386+

• Philosophy

• The theory of translation. W. Haas. Philosophy 37 (141) : July 1962. p. 208+

• Journal of Higher Education

• The classics in translation. Sherman Plato Young. The Journal of Higher Education 8 (5) : May 1937. p. 241+
• Translation in the classics. Herbert Newell Couch. The Journal of Higher Education 17 (7) : October 1946. p. 351+

• MLN

• Translation : the problem of purpose. Richard E. Braun. MLN 90 (6) : December 1975. p. 784+

• The Journal of Philosophy

• Translation as a tool of philosophical analysis. Nicholas Rescher. The Journal of Philosophy 53 (6) : March 15, 1956. p. 219+

• The Modern Language Review

• The theory of translation in sixteenth-century. Germany W. Schwarz. The Modern Language Review 40 (4) : October 1945. p. 289+

PROQUEST
http:www.umi.compqdauto

• Bilingualism 

• Articulatory suppression in language interpretation : working memory capacity, dual tasking and word knowledge. Francisca Padilla, Maria Teresa Bajo, Pedro Macizo. Bilingualism 8 (3) : December 2005. p. 207+
• Basic skills in a complex task : a graphical model relating memory and lexical retrieval to simultaneous interpreting. Ingrid K Christoffels, Annette M B De Groot, Lourens J Waldorp. Bilingualism 6 (3) : December 2003. p. 201+ 
• Components of simultaneous interpreting : comparing interpreting with shadowing and paraphrasing. Ingrid K Christoffels, Annette M B De Groot. Bilingualism 7 (3) : December 2004. p. 227+
• Language control in bilinguals : monolingual tasks and simultaneous interpreting. Annette M B De Groot and Ingrid K Christoffels. Bilingualism 9 (2) : July 2006. p. 189+

• AUMLA : Journal of the Australian Universities Modern Language Association

• Convergence and divergence in translating vs. interpreting competence. Jamal Al-Qinai. AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association  Nov 2004. p. 61+

• Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

• Interpreters, interpreting, and the study of bilingualism. Guadalupe Valdés, Claudia Angelelli. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 23 : March 2003. p. 58+

• Publishing Research Quarterly

• Thoughts on translation. Yoshimoto Mahoko. Publishing Research Quarterly 17 (1) : 2001. p. 51+

• The International Executive (1986-1998)

• Global mirror using translators and interpreters. Josephine Bacon. The International Executive (1986-1998) 33 (2) : September-October 1991. p. 40+

EBSCO
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/

• Journal of Business Communication

• Functions of simultaneous interpreting. Tanaka, Atsuko. Journal of Business Communication 13 (3) : 1976. p. 55+

• Romanic Review

• The spirit of translation. De Stael, Germaine. Romanic Review 97 (3-4) : May-November 2006. p. 279+

• Multilingual

• Interpretation modes require multiple skill sets. Allen, Katherine. Multilingual 18 (2) : March 2007. p. 66.
• An introduction to interpretation equipment. Morel, Rafael. Multilingual 18 (2) : March 2007. p. 66.

• US-China Foreign Language

• Translator's adaption in translating. Wei-Qing-Guang. US-China Foreign Language 6 (2) : February 2008. p. 20+

ARTICLES

American Studies Resource Center (ASRC), 1st floor:

• Translation in the age of terror : the September 11 attacks exposed the flaws in the U.S. intelligence community's approach to translation. VF 35 E

European Documentation Centre (EDC), 1st floor:

• EU tower of babel : translators in Brussel are confronted by 11 languages-with more to come. IHT (36,076) : February 27-28, 1999. p. 5
• Translator recruitment falls below target. European Voice 10 (27) : July 22-28, 2004. p. 2

Periodicals Section, 2nd floor:

• A case study of lexical borrowing between two language families in the Southern Philippines. Philippine Journal of Linguistics 34 (1) : June 2003. p. 29+
• A constrastive analysis of american english and Philippine english news leads. Philippine Journal of Linguistics 33 (2) : December 2002. p. 53+
• The continuing language debate. Mind 3 (3) : 24+
• A description of cod-switching patterns among Filipino students in Sendai, Japan. Philippine Journal of Linguistics 29 (1-2) : June -December 1998. p. 49+
• This dying Philippine language needs to be saved. Manila Times 108 (303) : August 12, 2007. p. A5.
• English battles for academic respect. European Voice 13 (4) : February 1-7, 2007. p37.
• EU tower of babel : translators in Brussel are confronted by 11 languages-with more to come. IHT (36,076) : February 27-28, 1999. p. 5
• A formal-functional analysis of language with an application to Ibanag. Philippine Quarterly of Culture & Society 30 (34) : September-December 2002. p. 231+
• Language, categories, and social reality. Social Science Diliman 2 (2) : July-December 2001. p. 50+
• Mother-tongue teaching : a history. Mind 3 (3) : 26.
• "Other" Philippine languages in the third millenium. Philippine Journal of Linguistics 29 (1-2) : June-December 1998. p. 1+
• Ang pagsasalin ng mga piling akda sa Ibanag sa wikang Filipino. The Unlad-Dunong Journal 2 (1) : 2006. 25+
• Paul Ricoeur and the translation-interpretation of cultures. Karunungan 24 : September 2007. p. 57+
• Philippine languages in the third millennium. Philippine Journal of Linguistics 29 (1-2) : June -December 1998. p. 1+
• Ang pulang cocoon ni Abe Kobo : isang pagsasalin. Malay 17 (1) : Agosto 2002. p. 161+
• Translation and literary production. Philippine Panorama 32 (28) : July 20, 2003. p. 25
• Translation and revenge : castilian and the origins of nationalism in the Philippines. Budhi 3 (1) : 1999. 85+

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

• A translation of Amado V. Hernandez bayang malaya. Deveza, Eduardo T. (retired)
• Translation of the stress pictorial test to Hiligaynon and establishing its construct validity. Baterna-Daluz, Rina Grace. Phil. Journal of Psychology 34 (1) : June 2001. 111+
• The translator as co-creator : the semiotic method of translation. Cruz, Jhoanna Lynn B. Likha 16 (1) : 1995-1996. p. 19+

VERTICAL FILES

Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor:

• Ethnic minority languages within the wider Philippine social context. VF 00912
• The language situation in Far Eastern University. VF 00937
• Nakakaaliw si sintunadong Marimar : teorya mula sa praktis ng pagsasalin sa telebisyon. VF 02058
• Translation of the Japanese news - TBS. VF 00183
• Translation program among ASEAN libraries. VF 01542

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

LOCAL
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

• Ang mga ilo ni Magdalena G. Jalandoni sa Filipino. TG02859
• Poetry in translation as discourse : a reconstructive translation into Cebuano of poetry in.from english by contemporary writers of the Central Visayas region TG02734
• A tagalog translation of Iluminado Lucente's two Lineyte-Samarnon didactic plays. TG02882
• A translation and a study of Amado V. Hernandez's bayang malaya. Eduardo T. Deveza. TFT0032
• Translation into pilipino of a novella originally written in english. Francisco Sionil Jose. TG01526

FOREIGN

• From orality to literacy : translating traditional Ugandan oral forms into texts for children. Mushengyezi, Aaron, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2007. AAT 3265787
• Literary translators and victorian poetry. Drury, Annmarie S., Ph.D., Yale University, 2008. AAT 3317096

INTERNET WEBSITES  
(Cybernook, Ground floor, Graduate corners, 2nd and 3rd floors)

Peritus Precision Translations, Inc.
http://www.peritustranslations.com/
[Retrieved on December 8, 2008]

“This websites offers translation services in more than 30 languages using certified, native speakers who are selected for assignments based on direct experience within a subject area.”

Institute of Translating and Interpreting
http://www.iti.org.uk/indexMain.html
[Retrieved on December 8, 2008]

Established in 1986 as independent professional association of practicing translators and interpreters, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting is
regarded as one of the primary sources of information offering translation services to government, industry, and even to media and the general public
as well. Likewise, it also provides professional guidance and advice to those persons who are engaged in language services.

NOTIS : About Translating and Interpreting
http://www.notisnet.org/cliented/aboutt+i.html
[Retrieved on December 8, 2008]

This websites publishes information specifically designed to "foster positive public perception of translation and interpretation services".

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Should you have comments or suggestions on this pathfinders, please call us at these telephone numbers, 536-0244, 524-4611 local 620 or email us through “Ask LORA”.

Compiled by: Ms. Michelle E. Mendoza

Date: December 2008