Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiators [electronic resource] : Mediating and Communicating Power from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era /
Federici, F.editor.
Tessicini, D.editor.
How do translators manage relations with parties in a position of authority and power? The book investigates the intellectual, social and professional identity of translators and interpreters across different time periods and locations when their role involves a negotiation with political powers and cultural authorities.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiation; 1 Three Monks and a Philosopher: Religious Men Travelling and Translating in Medieval Serbia; 2 Patterns of Translation: Contacts and Linguistic Variety in Italian Late Medieval Diplomacy (ca. 1380-1520); 3 Becoming a Classic: Benedetto Varchi's Boezio (1551) and 'The Language of Florence'; 4 'Leo Africanus' and His Worlds of Translation; 5 A Servant of Two Masters: The Translator Michel Angelo Corai as a Tuscan Diplomat ( 1599-1609)
6 Translation and Adaptation in Original Composition: Lodowick Bryskett's Use of His Sources in A Discourse of Civill Life (1606)7 Revisiting Malinche: A Study of Her Role as an Interpreter; 8 The Political and Diplomatic Significance of Interpreters/ Translators in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Taiwan; 9 Hegel and the Latin Bhagavadgita (1823): A Critique ofUnderstanding and Translating the Foreign; 10 Translating Modern Fiction into Persian: A Snowball Story; 11 Translating Aboriginal Siberian and Circumpolar Cultures in Russia; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How do translators manage relations with parties in a position of authority and power? The book investigates the intellectual, social and professional identity of translators and interpreters across different time periods and locations when their role involves a negotiation with political powers and cultural authorities.
Translation and interpretation.
Comparative linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Literature—Translations.
Communication.
Translation.
Comparative Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Translation Studies.
Communication Studies.