Working languages: English to SpanishSpanish to EnglishSpanish (monolingual)
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|  Paula Meiss
Happy translating.
Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain Local time: 09:07 CET (GMT+1)
Native in: Spanish  | | |
Translation of humanities and social sciences, no secrets to me! | | Freelancer | | Translation, Editing/proofreading, Voiceover (dubbing), Subtitling, Post-editing, Transcription, Project management | | Specializes in: | | Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | Anthropology | | Linguistics | Geography | | History | Poetry & Literature | | Cinema, Film, TV, Drama | Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | | Music |
| Also works in: | | Science (general) | Medical (general) | | Media / Multimedia | Printing & Publishing | | Tourism & Travel | Economics | | Folklore | Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs | | General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters |
More Less | | PRO-level points: 4, Questions answered: 9, Questions asked: 1 | | Check, Wire transfer, Money order | Sample translations submitted: 2 English to Spanish: Sinopsis de la situación actual de las humanidades comparadas en los Estados Unidos y Europa
General field: Social Sciences
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature | Source text - English
Cultural studies, while innovative and an essential field in the humanities and social sciences, retains one drawback and this is its monolingual construction as it is a field developed and practiced primarily in the Anglophone world by scholars who in general at best work with two languages. Hence the notion that what has been a trademark of comparative literature, namely working in multiple languages, ought, ideally, be carried over into “comparative cultural studies”. Developed since the late 1980s by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, the conceptualization of comparative cultural studies is a “merger” of tenets of the discipline of comparative literature — minus the discipline’s Eurocentrism and nation-orientation, as discussed above — with those of cultural studies including the latter’s explicit ideological perspective. | Translation - Spanish
Los estudios culturales, si bien son innovadores y constituyen un campo esencial de las humanidades y ciencias sociales, tienen como principal inconveniente su monolingüismo, ya que es un área que se desarrolla y practica principalmente en el mundo anglófono,
y sus investigadores en general como máximo trabajan con dos idiomas. Por ello, propugnamos la idea de que aquello que ha sido la marca de fábrica de la literatura comparada, concretamente: el trabajo en una multiplicidad de lenguas, debería idealmente ser trasladado a los «estudios culturales comparados». Desarrollados a partir de finales de los ochentas por Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, la definición conceptual de los estudios culturales comparados constituye una «fusión» de los principios de la literatura comparada —si quitamos el eurocentrismo y orientación nacional de la disciplina, como mencionamos arriba— con los de los estudios culturales, si incluimos la perspectiva ideológica explícita de estos últimos. | Spanish to English: Subtitles for Parking (2007)
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Cinema, Film, TV, Drama | Source text - Spanish
Por una vez en tu vida.
Sentido común, Miguel Ángel.
¿Qué haría tu padre si le pasase esto?
¿Pero cómo le va a pasar a mi padre?
Si mi padre es el que se ha ido al Parking.
Tendría controlado al viejo.
Eso es. Hay que vigilar a tu padre.
Llama a un detective. Ahí está.
Un detective ¿no?
Ahora quieres que llame a un detective.
Cogemos las Páginas Amarillas y
buscamos por la ‘D’ de detective.
Miguel Ángel, yo tengo el teléfono de uno.
¿Cómo?
Que tengo el teléfono de uno.
Ah, ¿tienes el teléfono de un detective?
¿Y se puede saber de dónde lo has sacado?
Me lo ha dado Marina.
¿Marina?
| Translation - English
For once in your life.
Common sense, Miguel Ángel.
What would he do if this happened to him?
But how could this happen to my father?
He’s the one gone to the parking lot.
He’d control the old man.
That’s it. We must watch your father.
Call a detective. That’s it.
A detective, right?
Now you want me to hire a detective.
Just pick up the Yellow Pages and
look under ‘D’ for detective.
Miguel Angel, I have one’s number.
What?
I’ve got a detective’s number.
Ah. You have a detective’s telephone number
Where did you get it from?
Marina gave it to me.
Marina?
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More Less | | Graduate diploma - IES en Lenguas Vivas | | Years of translation experience: 12. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2006. | | N/A | English to Spanish (IES Lenguas Vivas)
English to Spanish (University of Barcelona)
Catalan to Spanish (Serveis Lingüístics)
Spanish to English (IES Lenguas Vivas)
More Less | | N/A | | Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, DejaVu, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, OmegaT, Powerpoint | | Paula Meiss endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines. | | About me With an ecclectic background and education, I have always felt a passion for translation. I completed two degrees in English and in Literary theory at a graduate level at the University of Barcelona, and hold an MA in Comparative literature for the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. My first studies were literary and technical and scientific translation, back in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Besides this, I have 10 years of experience translating EN>ES and sometimes ES>EN academic texts of all kinds (articles, papers, dissertations, projects, presentations, theses), in social sciences and anthropology, philosophy and philology, literary and cultural studies. I also have experience translating biomedicine papers, having studied medicine for 2 years myself.
Since 2011, I work part-time at the Language Services of the UB -where I mainly do translations of institutional texts and certificates- and combine this with freelance translation whenever possible! |
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Keywords: Social sciences, Literature, Arts, Humanities, Literary theory, Comparative literature, Cultural studies, Anthropology, Philosophy, European Spanish and Latin-American Spanish, Scientific papers, dissertations, theses, projects, essays, translation, proofreading, revision, writing, language consultant, language advisor, terminology database management,
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