Translation
Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780198712114
Subjects: Translating and interpreting
Description: "Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Not only does it give us foreign news, dubbed films, and instructions for using the microwave, but without it there would be no world religions, and our literatures, cultures, and our languages would be unrecognizable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds analyses the use of translation, from ancient Chinese to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate. He shows how translation determines meaning, how it matters in commerce, empire, and conflict, and why it is fundamental to literature and the arts. Reynolds concludes by revealing how translation is changing radically in our new age of electronic media." --