The moving text: localization, translation, and distribution
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Main Author: Pym, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2004
Series:Benjamins translation library v. 49
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index
The Moving Text; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Photo; Table of contents; Introduction; 1 Distribution; 2 Asymmetries of distribution; 3 Equivalence, malgré tout; 4 How translations speak; 5 Quantity speaks; 6 Belonging as resistance; 7 Transaction costs; 8 Professionalization; 9 Humanizing discourse; Notes; References; Index; The BENJAMINS TRANSLATION LIBRARY.
For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there anything that translation theory can gain from localization? Can localization theory learn anything from the history and complexity of translation? To address those questions, both terms are placed within a more general frame, that of text transfer. Texts are distributed in time and space; localization and
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 220 pages)
ISBN:1588115089
902721655X
9027295824
9781588115089
9789027216557
9789027295828

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