Language across languages : new perspectives on translation / / edited by Emanuele Miola and Paolo Ramat

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460670703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4438-8311-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 418.02
• Soggetti: Translating and interpreting; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume collects most of the papers presented at a workshop on 'Translation' held in Pavia on October 3-4, 2013 and organized by the LETiSS (on which see below)"--Introduction.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the first written documents in the history of mankind (produced at the end of the 4th millennium BC), translation has always played a pivotal role in human societies. Translators were needed whenever the need for contact between different-speaking communities arose, such as for the purposes of communication, commerce, and declarations of war, or peace. Translation is even more important in today's world. Globalization has brought the nations of the Earth closer, to the extent that books, movies and television programs released or aired far away in the world are just a click of the mouse