Screen LibraryTranslation : a very short introduction /
"Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Not only does it give us foreign news, dubbed films, and instructions for using the microwave, but without it there would be no world religions, and our literatures, cultures, and our languages would be unrecognizable. In this Very Short Int...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Very short introductions ; 493 |
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"Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Not only does it give us foreign news, dubbed films, and instructions for using the microwave, but without it there would be no world religions, and our literatures, cultures, and our languages would be unrecognizable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds analyses the use of translation, from ancient Chinese to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate. He shows how translation determines meaning, how it matters in commerce, empire, and conflict, and why it is fundamental to literature and the arts. Reynolds concludes |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 142 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-129) and index. |
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9780198712114 (paperback) : 0198712111 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | P306 |
| CLC: | H059 |
| Call Number: | H059/R464 |
| Contents: | Crossing languages -- Definitions -- Words, contexts, and purposes -- Forms, identities, and interpretations -- Power, religion, and choice -- Words in the world -- Translational literature. |