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Translation as Negotiation
$37.90
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2005
Summary
‘Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking cultural’
Umberto Eco is of the world’s most brilliant and entertaining writers on literature and language. In this accessible and dazzling study, he turns his eye on the subject of translations and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. The book is full of little gems about mistranslation…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753817988 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753817985 |
| Author: | Prof Umberto Eco, Umberto Eco |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2005 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Prof Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and one of the world’s most famous – and admired – writers. He is the author of the novels In the Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, Baudolino and The Island of the Day Before.
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