The translator as mediator of cultures
By: edited by Humphrey Tonkin, Maria Esposito Frank
Series: Studies in world language problems -- v. 3
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9789027228345; 9789027288059
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: Between temples and templates: history's claims on the translator / Probal Dasgupta; title: Part I. Translation and reconciliation: 1. Translation as reconciliation: A conversation about politics, translation, and multilingualism in South Africa / Antjie Krog, Rosalind C. Morris, and Humphrey Tonkin; title: 2. Interpreting at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): Linguistic and cultural challenges / Nancy Schweda Nicholson; title: 3. Translating and interpreting sign language: Mediating the DEAF-WORLD / Timothy Reagan; title: 4. Translators in a global community / Jonathan Pool; title: Part II. Translation and negotiation: 5. The treason of translation? Bilingualism, linguistic borders and identity / John Edwards; title: 6. The poetics of experience: Toward a pragmatic understanding of experience, practice, and translation / Vincent Colapietro; title: Part III. Translation and the interpretation of texts: 7. Translation and the rediscovery of the multinational Central European / Thomas Cooper; title: 8. Transcriação / Transcreation: The Brazilian concrete poets and translation / K. David Jackson; title: 9. Expression and translation of philosophy: Giorgio Colli, a master of time / Marie-José Tramuta; title: 10. The semantics of invention: Translation into Esperanto / Humphrey Tonkin; title: Contributors.