The moving text :: localization, translation, and distribution /

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 the...

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Main Author: Pym, Anthony, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Series:Benjamins translation library ; v. 49.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
ISBN:9789027295828
9027295824
902721655X
9789027216557
1588115089
9781588115089
1282160672
9781282160675
9786612160677
6612160675
ISSN:0929-7316 ;

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