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Prismatic Translation

Prismatic Translation

Hardcover

Series: Transcript, Book 10

Literary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 178188725X
ISBN13: 9781781887257
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Dec 30 2019
Pages: 396
Weight: 2.37
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Translation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of multiple signifying possibilities, an opening of the source text to Language in all its plurality. The first view is underpinned by the regime of European standard languages which can be lined up in bilingual dictionaries, by the technology of the printed book, and by the need for regulated communication in political, academic and legal contexts. The second view is most at home in multilingual cultures, in circumstances where language is not standardised (e.g., minority and dialectal communities, and oral cultures), in the fluidity of electronic text, and in literature. The first view sees translation as a channel; the second as a prism.

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