Translating and Revising for Localisation: What do We Know? What do We Need to Know?
Translating and revising for localisation require specific skills that are distinct from those required for translating and revising for publishing or other purposes. Their distinctiveness is due to several factors, particularly the need to work within a translation memory (TM) editor environment, r...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 16; no. 1/2; pp. 49 - 61 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2008
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