Diverse Voices in Translation Studies in East Asia

214 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This edited volume showcases essays revolving around diverse translation discourses and practices in China, Korea and Japan. Knowledge transfer and cultural exchanges have historically flourished in East Asia and translation functions as an important social, cultural and political tool to this day. The essays in this volume discuss a wide range of historical and contemporary subjects, each examining distinctive translational activities and foregrounding their cultural significance in their respective time and place. They give a voice to various translational traditions in East Asia, where regional particularities and interlinkages are in effect. The contributors bring together different areas of expertise, such as the history of translation, political activism and translation, literary translation, transcreation and the translation profession.

• Reihe: New Trends in Translation Studies
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
• ISBN: 9781788740227
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2019
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
• Band herausgegeben von: Nana Sato-Rossberg, Akiko Uchiyama