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• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 May 1996

These essays—which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan— describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve

• Publisher : Multilingual Matters
• File Size : 55,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 May 1998

This collection brings together two leading figures in the discipline of translation studies. The essays cover a range of fields, and combine theory with practical case studies involving the translation

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
• File Size : 48,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 January 1996

Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice,

• Publisher : Bucknell University Press
• File Size : 32,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 May 2024

How we view the foreign, presented either in the interrelated forms of culture, language, or text, determines to a large degree the way in which we translate. This volume of

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 21,8 Mb
• Release Date : 16 April 2014

Translating Chinese Culture is an innovative and comprehensive coursebook which addresses the issue of translating concepts of culture. Based on the framework of schema building, the course offers helpful guidance

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 29 March 2007

This groundbreaking 2007 volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 May 2018

In the context of increased movement across borders, this book examines how key cultural texts and concepts are transferred between nations and languages as well as across different media. The

• Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
• File Size : 22,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 May 1995

This book discusses the far-reaching effects that translated texts may have in the target culture and illustrates that translation as a culture-transcending process is an important way of forming cultural

• Publisher : Rodopi
• File Size : 30,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 May 2024

This cutting-edge collection, born of a belief in the value of approaching 'translation' in a wide range of ways, contains essays of interest to students and scholars of translation, literary

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 28,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 October 2015

In this interdisciplinary book, Juliane House breaks new ground by situating translation within Applied Linguistics. In thirteen chapters, she examines translation as a means of communication across different languages and