The translator as mediator of cultures / edited by Humphrey Tonkin, Maria Esposito Frank.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2010.
Description
x, 201 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9789027228345 (hb : alk. paper)
  • 9027228345 (hb : alk. paper)
  • 9789027288059 (eb : alk. paper)
  • 9027288054 (eb : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010013265
OCLC
587154077
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