(Re)visiting Translation: Linguistic and Cultural Issues across Genres

by Paola Attolino (Editor), Linda Barone (Editor), Mikaela Cordisco (Editor), Mariagrazia De Meo (Editor)

Overview

The volume focuses on the shift from the traditional linguistic approach to translation to a multidisciplinary task. The analysis of translation in a variety of genres offers a wide opportunity to observe the complex cognitive and cultural processes activated in the transfer of meaning, perceived as a negotiation between alternatives, rather than just a list of gains and losses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034316859
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/14/2015
Pages:	211
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paola Attolino is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salerno. Her research interests focus on non-standard English, pragmatics, evaluation in language, sociolinguistics and argumentative discourse.
Linda Barone is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salerno. She has published on English for Specific Purposes, corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches applied to language teaching and to text and genre analysis, literary linguistics, literary translation and audiovisual translation.
Mikaela Cordisco is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salerno. She has published on autonomous language learning, the use and function of taboo words in contemporary English, the English of Computer-Mediated Communication, gender in translation.
Mariagrazia De Meo is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salerno. She has worked on phraseology and language teaching and has published on subtitling and audio-visual translation and in particular on the translation of humour and culture-bound language such as dialect.

Table of Contents

Contents: Paola Attolino/Linda Barone/Mikaela Cordisco/Mariagrazia De Meo: Linguistic and cultural issues in translation: new insights – Emilia Di Martino/Bruna Di Sabato: Going Local and hybrid: future perspectives in translation and translating – Paolo Donadio: Cognitive Linguistics meets Translation Studies: the case of intralingual rewording – Francesca Vigo: Elusiveness and ambiguity: the paradox of legal translation – Roberto Masone: Language appropriation and cultural elements: the limits of translation into Italian of Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh, Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Bharati Mukherjee’s The Middleman And Other Stories – Paola Attolino: Licence to laugh: the Italian flavour of 007’s humour – Linda Barone: The fall of the house of Poe: language, style and other issues in the translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories into Italian – Mariateresa Franza: The visible translator: Fabrizio De André translates Leonard Cohen – Iain Halliday: From La canzone del sole (1971) to The Sun Song (1977): more than textual problems in the translation of Battisti’s pop anthem – Ambrogio De Santis: When translation struggles against language: the case of manner in English and Italian motion verbs – Carla De Pascale: Translating sociolects: linguistic stereotypes and cultural discrepancies – Eliza Doolittle revisited.

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