De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators by Lynne Bowker

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Published: Mar 19, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5744/delos.2023.2009
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De-mystifying Translation Lynne Bowker

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Alexander Burak
University of Florida

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Lynne Bowker. De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators. London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, 2023. Hardcover: $160; Paperback: $42.95. 216 pages.


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Issue
Vol. 38 No. 2 (2023)
Section
Reviews

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Author Biography

Alexander Burak, University of Florida

Alexander Burak is an associate professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a graduate of the Translators’ and Interpreters’ Department of the Maurice Thorez Institute in Moscow (currently named the Moscow Linguistic University). He has a PhD in sociology from Moscow State University. He is the author of five books—Translating Culture 1: Words (Moscow: R.Valent, 2010); Translating Culture 2: Sentence and Paragraph Semantics (Moscow: R.Valent, 2013); “The Other” in Translation: A Case for Comparative Translation Studies (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers/Indiana University, 2013); What it Takes to be a Translator: Theory and Practice (Saarbrücken / Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014); and Russia’s Visionaries: Direct Speech (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021, 2023)—as well as numerous articles on translation.