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Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

This title consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a single coherent new paradigm for the study of language as speech act, as performance - as doing things with…

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Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

J.L. Austin famously distinguished between constative utterances that convey information and performative utterances that perform actions. In this volume, Douglas Robinson argues that Austin’s distinction can be used to understand…

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Priming Translation: Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research. Priming Translation will be of interest to scholars…

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Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. This fourth edition remains invaluable for students…

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Translation and Empire: Postcolonial Theories Explained

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire

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Translation and Empire: Postcolonial Theories Explained

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire

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Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. This fourth edition remains invaluable for students…

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Rites of Passage

Professor Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Thomas, exposed once to Majken’s blood during her fight with John to save his life, is becoming vampyric. Soon the symptoms are so bad he is unable to deny he…

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Silently Comes The Night

Professor Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Majken, a female vampyric person of indeterminate age, comes to Trenton seeking a new life. Appearing as a young woman, she chooses a college to live and a friendly young…

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Mosaic Souls

Professor Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture

Professor Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University)

A study of postcolonial affect that covers the refugee experience, colonization and decolonization, and intergenerational trauma.

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Exorcising Translation: Towards an Intercivilizational Turn

Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

A major new work in translation studies and comparative literature, looking at the tensions and relations between western and eastern culture and literature, by a pioneering scholar in the field…

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The Strange Loops of Translation

Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of strange loops, from Goedel, Escher, Bach (1979)…

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Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address

Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Finalist for the 2020 Prose Awards (Language and Linguistics Category)

The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has brought some new understanding, but…

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Exorcising Translation: Towards an Intercivilizational Turn

Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

A major new work in translation studies and comparative literature, looking at the tensions and relations between western and eastern culture and literature, by a pioneering scholar in the field…

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Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address

Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Finalist for the 2020 Prose Awards (Language and Linguistics Category)

The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has brought some new understanding, but…

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Feeling Extended: Sociality as Extended Body-Becoming-Mind

Douglas Robinson (Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of English, Hong Kong Baptist University)

A new view of the extended mind thesis argues that a stark binary opposition between really extending and seeming to extend oversimplifies the issue.

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