Translating across cultures : BAS 21st annual international conference / edited by Hortensia Pârlog and Luminița Frențiu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pârlog, Hortensia, editor.

Frențiu, Luminița, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Congresses.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translating Across Cultures is a collection of nine papers given at the 21st BAS/British and American Studies conference, held in Timisoara in May 2011. They focus on translation problems that may arise at various levels, from word to translation unit, when rendering a literary, legal, economic or hybrid text genre into a second language, as well as on some of the methodological issues raised by this process. The papers attempt to give answers to questions including: why or what cultural elem...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I - TRANSLATING IN THE MODERN CONTEXT; MAPPING THE TRANSLATION PROCESS; TRANSLATING IN THE GLOBAL AGE; PART II - MEANING RELATIONS IN TRANSLATIONS; HAND COLLOCATIONS; TRANSLATING ECONOMIC METAPHORS; KIRAN DESAI'S HULLBALOO IN THE GUAVA ORCHARD; TRANSLATING YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE ; PART III - TRANSLATING AT WORD (VERB) LEVEL; TRANSLATING SERBIAN REGIONAL VERBS INTO ENGLISH; LEXICAL GAPS IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN LOCOMOTION VERBS; A TRANSLATIONAL APPROACH TO TENSE AND MODALITY IN THE EU LEGISLATIVE TEXTS; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6495-1

OCLC:

884726012