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Publisher: Routledge, London and New York, NY, 2009, £225/$405.
ISBN: 978 0 415 36930 5. Also available as an e-book (ISBN 978 0 203 02911 4)
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies has been the standard, highly distinctive reference work in its field since it first appeared in 1968. Many of its features are not found elsewhere, especially its series of short histories of translation. Its original editors remain in situ for this second edition. Mona Baker, Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, and Gabriela Saldanha, Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham, are both high-profile editors of academic journals in the field of translation studies, and are both prolific writers. They are baked by an international panel of consultant editors, and over 90 contributors from over 30 countries. Expertise rules! Revision, extension and updating of entries has been thorough, and there are many new entries, especially on translation...