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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962124903321

Autore

Cronin Michael

Titolo

Translation and globalization / / Michael Cronin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-13829-X

0-203-37881-4

1-283-88477-1

1-135-13821-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

418.02

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting

Globalization

Language and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Translation and Globalization; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Echolands: translation now; 1 Translation and the global economy; Translation; The informational and global economy; Self and the Net; Informational and aesthetic goods; Localization and culture; Communication and transmission; The message is the medium; Translation tools; Material organization; Multiple modernities; Down to earth; 2 Globalization and new translation paradigms; Translation and the de-materialization of space; Networks and networking

Market utopianism, Americanization and the developmental stateAgency and neo-Babelianism; Translators and mediation; Fidelity and time; Diversity; 3 Globalization and the new geography of translation; Global definitions and historical experiences; Localization and hegemony; Countering hegemony in translation; The censorship of translation experience; The refusal to translate and the global city; 4 Globalization and the new politics of translation; Fluid modernity; Time, transmission and the supra-national; Cyborgs and machine translation; Literary translation and market time

Translator statusTranslation and creativity; The Double and 'clonialism';



Incompleteness and metonym; 5 Translation and minority languages in a global setting; Invisible minorities; Minority languages and science and technology; Common conditions; Travelling minorities: language, translation and the global; Remainders; Asymmetrical relations; Travelling/dwelling; Translation ecology; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation.The Internet, new technology, machine translation and the emergence of a worldwide, multi-million dollar translation industry have dramatically altered the complex relationship between translators, language and power. In this book, Michael Cronin looks at the changing geography of translation pra