SPAN 412: Spanish Translation

This guide will lead you to dictionaries, newspaper and periodical articles, and other reference tools for translators. Should you have any questions or dudas, please contact me at the above phone or email address. Office Hrs:  Thurs. 9-11 a.m. & by appointment.

Use the “Quick Search” under “Browse”…

Spanish language—dictionaries—English                    Spanish language—Slang

Spanish language—Business Spanish—Dictionaries     Or by author’s name

…or the “Advanced Search” with as many or as few parameters as you’d like. Experiment!

Keyword, author, subject and/or title, language, location, date of publication, etc.

These items are in the Arts & Humanities Reference Collection, in Pattee Stacks 2 or 2A.

PC 4498 – Books on translation from Spanish                        PC 4591 – Spanish synonyms

PC 4580 – Spanish etymology                                                  PC 4600s – Spanish dictionaries

Selected Reference Works - Check the CAT for full bibliographic information:

Real Academia de la Lengua Española – Diccionario de la lengua española.* REF PC4625.A3 2001b

Moliner, María/Presentación de Manuel Seco – Diccionario del uso del español.  REF PC 4625.M6 1998

Seco, Manuel – Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española. REF PC4460.S39 1998

----- Diccionario del español actual REF PC4625.S43 1999

Aranda, Lucía V. Handbook of Spanish-English translation. PC4498.A69 2007

Alonso Pedraz, Martín. Enciclopedia del idioma: diccionario histórico y moderno de la lengua española (siglos XII al XX) etimológico, tecnológico, regional e hispanoamericano REF PC4667.A4

----- Diccionario medieval español REF PC4715.Z5A45 1986

Corominas, Joan. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. REF PC4580.C6 1980

Sáinz de Robles, Federico Carlos. Ensayo de un diccionario español de sinónimos y antónimos. REF PC4591.S2 1965

Current print periodicals are temporarily housed in in the Music & Media Center, with call numbers but organized in alphabetical order

Sample titles from MMC: Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, Correo fronterizo, Hispanic research journal, Letras peninsulares, Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos.

To locate the above and other current titles, follow this search path:

CAT>Advanced Search>In Library (Pattee Library & Paterno Library UP) Language: (Spanish) Material Type: (Periodicals) Location: (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Second Floor – Current Periodicals)

Older print periodicals are bound, in the stacks, and organized as the books in call number order. Some offer an historical view. Do the same search as above, except leave “Location:” blank and use Sort by: (Pub Date (oldest first) Here’s an unusual example of a bound periodical in the stacks:

DP302.S56A7 1886 Archivo hispalense Sociedad del Archivo Hispalense, Seville. "Revista histórica, literaria y artística".

For articles from print newspapers or popular magazines not in current periodicals in the MMC, visit the News and Microforms Library in the basement of West Patee, near MacKinnon’s.

For articles from online newspapers, go to the Libraries’ Public Home Page. Under “Find Materials by Type”, click on “Newspapers,” then “Newspaper Databases: Try These First,” then “NewsBank – Access World News”or “LexisNexis Academic.”

PressDisplay is also a good resource for Spanish language news articles:

http://library.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

For online newspapers OR magazines, LANIC is useful: http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/

Click on Media and Communication, then on Newspapers and Magazines

Arts and Humanities Library: www.libraries.psu.edu/artshumanities

Library Services for Persons with Disabilities: www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/disabilities/

ILLiad Interlibrary Loan login: https://ill.libraries.psu.edu/

*Diccionario de la lengua española: www.rae.es