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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828264503321

Autore

Wang John C. Y.

Titolo

Two voices in one : essays in asian and translationstudies / / edited by Laurence K. P. Wong, John C. Y. Wang and Chan Sin-wai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

2014

ISBN

1-4438-6349-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Language and languages

Linguistics

Translating and interpreting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THERE'S A WORD FOR IT-OR IS THERE?; TRANSLATING A CHINESE GARDEN; "MULTIFLORATE SPLENDOUR"; SITTING WITH SIMA QIAN; FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE; TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGYON THE FAST TRACK; LEARNING CHINESE EXPRESSIONSTHROUGH TRANSLATION; PROBLEMS IN TRANSLATING "CIRCULATORY"TERMS FROM ARISTOTLE'S GREEKAND MENCIUS' CHINESE; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

Two Voices in One: Essays in Asian and Translation Studies is a collection of papers by eight scholars of international standing. Concentrating on what really makes Asian and Translation Studies fascinating and worth one's while, it opens the reader's eyes to new horizons, horizons not found in collections or monographs that look at either discipline in isolation. In going through the collection, the reader will see how a translation problem can rear a ""yellow-ochre head,"" why a Chinese gar...