15.776, Books: Translation: Pym

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Subject: 15.776, Books: Translation: Pym

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Date:  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:26:32 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Moving Text: Pym

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Date:  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:26:32 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Moving Text: Pym

Title: The Moving Text
Subtitle: Localization, translation, and distribution
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 49

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl/		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=BTL_49

Author: Anthony Pym, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Hardback: ISBN: 902721655X, Pages: xviii, 223 pp., Price: EUR 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588115089, Pages: xviii, 223 pp., Price: USD 102.00

Abstract:

For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a
language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces
fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably
right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across
those differences. Is there anything that translation theory can gain
from localization? Can localization theory learn anything from the
history and complexity of translation? To address those questions,
both terms are placed within a more general frame, that of text
transfer. Texts are distributed in time and space; localization and
translation respond differently to those movements; their relative
virtues are thus brought out on common ground.  Anthony Pym here
reviews not only key problems in translation theory, but also critical
concepts such as cultural resistance, variable transaction costs,
segmentation of the labour market, and the dehumanization of technical
discourse. The book closes with a plea for the humanizing virtues of
translation, over and above the efficiencies of localization.

Table of contents

Introduction  xv
1. Distribution  1--28
2. Assymetries of distribution  29--50
3. Equivalence, malgré tout  51--65
4. How translations speak  67--86
5. Quantity speaks  87--109
6. Belonging as resistance  111--132
7. Transaction costs  133--157
8. Professionalization  159--179
9. Humanizing discourse  181--198
Notes  199--203
References  205--213
Subject index  215

Lingfield(s):	Translation 			

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)

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