The translator as mediator of cultures/

Corporate Author: Benjamins John
Other Authors: Tonkin, Humphrey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010
Series:Studies in world language problems v. 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Between temples and templates: history's claims on the translator / Probal Dasgupta
  • Part I. Translation and reconciliation: 1. Translation as reconciliation: A conversation about politics, translation, and multilingualism in South Africa / Antjie Krog, Rosalind C. Morris, and Humphrey Tonkin
  • 2. Interpreting at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): Linguistic and cultural challenges / Nancy Schweda Nicholson
  • 3. Translating and interpreting sign language: Mediating the DEAF-WORLD / Timothy Reagan
  • 4. Translators in a global community / Jonathan Pool
  • Part II. Translation and negotiation: 5. The treason of translation? Bilingualism, linguistic borders and identity / John Edwards
  • 6. The poetics of experience: Toward a pragmatic understanding of experience, practice, and translation / Vincent Colapietro
  • Part III. Translation and the interpretation of texts: 7. Translation and the rediscovery of the multinational Central European / Thomas Cooper
  • 8. Transcriacao / Transcreation: The Brazilian concrete poets and translation / K. David Jackson
  • 9. Expression and translation of philosophy: Giorgio Colli, a master of time / Marie-Jose Tramuta
  • 10. The semantics of invention: Translation into Esperanto / Humphrey Tonkin
  • Contributors