National Identity in Translation

ISBN-13: 9783631792391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 246 str.

Lucyna Harmon; Dorota Osuchowska

Opis

The book charts more and less successful attempts to preserve the element of national identity in translated texts. The topics discussed include research on national identity in translation, the role of translators as shapers of national identity and its disseminators or views of translations as a history of national identity shaping.

Spis treści

Culture - Cultural identity - Discourse - Domestication - Foreignization - Function of translation - Genre realia - Ideological divergences - Intercultural communication - Nation - Nation shaping - National identity - Patronage - Refraction - Translation - Translation Studies

O autorze

Lucyna Harmon is Professor at the Institute of English Studies and Head of the Department of Translation Theory, University of Rzeszów, Poland. Her expertise includes general and literary translation, general and comparative linguistics and intercultural communication.

Dorota Osuchowska is Professor at the Institute of English Studies and member of the Department of Translation Theory, University of Rzeszów, Poland, where she lectures in Applied Linguistics, lexicography and academic writing. Her research includes dictionary use by learners of English and translation students and description of phraseology in dictionaries.