Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication
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Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication tackles the complexity of the concepts mentioned in its title through seven essays, written by most highly regarded experts in the field of Translation Studies: José Lambert (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), Raquel Merino (University of the Basque Country, Spain), Rosa Rabadán (University of Leon, Spain), Julio-César Santoyo (University of Leon, Spain), Christina Schäffner (Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom), Gideon Toury (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain). The essays are varied and innovative. Their common feature is that they deal with various aspects of translation and cultural identity and that they contribute to the enrichment of the study of communication across cultures.These major readings in translation studies will give readers food for thought and reflection and will promote research on translation, cultural identity and cross-cultural communication.
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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 10 May 2010
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443819893
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Micaela Muñoz-Calvo is Senior Lecturer in English Philology at the English and German Department of the University of Zaragoza Spain. She teaches Scientific English at the Faculty of Sciences and gives doctoral courses on Translation. Her fields of interest are literary translation translation of humour translation and culture and scientific English. She co-edited New Trends in Translation and Cultural Identity published in 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Maria del Carmen Buesa-Gómez is Senior Lecturer in English at the Department of English and German Studies of the University of Zaragoza Spain. She teaches English for Specific Studies to students of Library Studies at the Faculty of Arts. Her fields of interest are English for specific purposes translation studies literary translation and corpus and contrastive studies applied to academic and other registers. She co-edited New Trends in Translation and Cultural Identity published in 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.