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The translator as mediator of cultures /

If it is bilingualism that transfers information and ideas from culture to culture, it is the translator who systematizes and generalizes this process. The translator serves as a mediator of cultures. In this collection of essays, based on a conference held at the University of Hartford, a group of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tonkin, Humphrey, Esposito Frank, Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2010.
Colección:Studies in world language problems ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Between temples and templates: history's claims on the translator / Probal Dasgupta
  • Part I. Translation and reconciliation: 1. Translation as reconciliation: A conversation about politics, translation, and multilingualism in South Africa / Antjie Krog, Rosalind C. Morris, and Humphrey Tonkin
  • 2. Interpreting at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): Linguistic and cultural challenges / Nancy Schweda Nicholson
  • 3. Translating and interpreting sign language: Mediating the DEAF-WORLD / Timothy Reagan
  • 4. Translators in a global community / Jonathan Pool
  • Part II. Translation and negotiation: 5. The treason of translation? Bilingualism, linguistic borders and identity / John Edwards
  • 6. The poetics of experience: Toward a pragmatic understanding of experience, practice, and translation / Vincent Colapietro
  • Part III. Translation and the interpretation of texts: 7. Translation and the rediscovery of the multinational Central European / Thomas Cooper
  • 8. Transcriação / Transcreation: The Brazilian concrete poets and translation / K. David Jackson
  • 9. Expression and translation of philosophy: Giorgio Colli, a master of time / Marie-José Tramuta
  • 10. The semantics of invention: Translation into Esperanto / Humphrey Tonkin
  • Contributors.