Translation Today: National Identity in Focus

ISBN-13: 9783631792865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 202 str.

Michal Organ

Opis

The book focuses on the translation issues connected with cross-cultural communication, selected linguistic and cultural components of nationality, diverse elements of humour and different methods and features of their rendition, intricacies of audiovisual translation and challenges arising in the sphere of a translator's professional training.

Spis treści

Symbols in folk tales - Precedent names in translation - Translating culture-bound nonce words - Simile in translation - Semiosis in translation - Polymodality of military-political narration - Translation strategies in the context of modern cross-cultural communication - Globalization, localization and national identity in translation - Varieties of English and ELF in translation - Ukrainian-Latin transliteration - Future of the translation profession - Translator training - Film and its translation - Humor translation in cyberspace - Parody translation analysis - Translation of evaluative forms from Spanish to Latvian

O autorze

Michal Organ, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of Translation Theory in the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów (Poland). His main research interests include audiovisual translation, humour translation, censorship and manipulation in translation, unofficial translation, translation of tourist information texts and CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools.