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Autore |
Cronin Michael |
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Titolo |
Translation and globalization / / Michael Cronin |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-13829-X |
0-203-37881-4 |
1-283-88477-1 |
1-135-13821-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Translating and interpreting |
Globalization |
Language and culture |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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'; |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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