Simplication, explicitation and normalization : corpus-based research into English to Italian translations of children's classics / by Margherita Ippolito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ippolito, Margherita, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Children's literature, Italian--Translations into English--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The search for general laws and regularities in Translation Studies gained new momentum in the 1990s when Baker (1993) promoted the use of large electronic corpora as research tools for exploring the linguistic features that render the language of translation different from the language of non-translated texts. By comparing a corpus of translated and non-translated English texts, Baker and her research team put forward the hypothesis that translated texts are characterized by some ""universal...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF GRAPHS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; APPENDIX F; NOTES; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6736-5

OCLC:

891082371