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This wide-ranging collection brings together essays on a recent approach to translation known as transcreation. Together with new modes of translation, such as fansubbing, fandubbing, and crowdsourcing, transcreation has challenged the traditional structure of the translation market, the agency and ethics of the discipline, and encouraged new research in translation studies. A debate has emerged around the two concepts of translation and transcreation, mostly in terms of differences between the two practices and issues such as creativity, abusive translation and appropriation. Mainly applied to commercial translation, transcreation is now gaining…
This wide-ranging collection brings together essays on a recent approach to translation known as transcreation, which has challenged the traditional structure of the translation market and the agency and ethics of the discipline, and encouraged new research in translation studies
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Oriental Languages and Cultures is a collection of new essays by academics who participated in the 1st international conference Oriental Languages and Cultures, held at Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow on 22-23 November 2007. The collection presents a vivid overview of current problems in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Middle and Far East. The uniqueness of this book lies in its bringing to publication a steadily growing interest in languages and culture of the Far East, as well as the East as…
Discover current scholarship on the Middle and Far East. These essays offer new perspectives on the region’s languages, literatures, and cultures, from theory and gender to pedagogy.
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From Theory to Mysticism
The Unclarity of the Notion ‘Object’ in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
This book focuses on the main constituent of the Bild theory of sentences in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: the term ‘object’. One of the things that attracts the reader of the Tractatus is that while there is use of the notion ‘object’, the notion is not specified. This book explains: (a) why the term ‘object’ in the Tractatus is unclear; (b) what difficulties and problems result because of this lack of clarity in the Tractatus; (c) why the term ‘object’ might be left unclear on purpose; and (d) how the…
Georgallides focuses on the main constituent of the Bild theory of sentences in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: the term ‘object’. He highlights why the exact meaning of this concept is left unclear, and what difficulties result from this lack of clarity in the Tractatus.
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Translation as Criticism
Elizabeth Jolley's Mr Scobie's Riddle
Themes, places, characters and voices of Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s Riddle are explored in detail in this monograph, which provides different narratological and translational analyses of the novel, as well as an academic translation into Italian. Considering the challenges and issues posited by a literary work’s translation helps to shed light on the original work itself. In this manner, the translation is to be seen as a further analytical instrument to gain insight into the original novel. The purpose of this work is to obtain a deeper understanding of the…
This work explores the microcosm of Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s Riddle, analyzing its Australian themes, curious characters, and entertaining voices. It provides a new translation to take Italian readers on a journey into the world of the novel.
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This volume investigates how fictional literary varieties and characterising discourse in a literary text can be translated and reproduced in the target language and culture. For this purpose, selected examples from Gautam Malkani’s debut novel Londonstani (2006) and its Italian translation by Massimo Bocchiola (2007) are analysed and discussed, in terms of the solutions they offer for the study of linguistic variation as a translation issue, and in terms of the constraints involved in the translation of linguistic varieties. The contrastive analysis conducted on the novel and its Italian translation…
How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
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This is a ground-breaking work that offers a new explanation of the power and popularity of literary fictional texts. It does this by explaining the multiple dimensions of any fictional text and why it is that fictional literature cannot be reduced to a subset of these dimensions. This book offers an expansion of the field of pragmatics, “the philosophy of the act,” in which the three categories of fictional actors—author, character and reader—can be given their due. It achieves this by bringing together schools of thought that are too often…
This ground-breaking work explains the power of literary fiction. It expands the field of pragmatics to give due to the three fictional actors—author, character and reader—by bringing together Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy.
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Attitudes towards, and strategies for treating, those who suffer from abnormal mental states have evolved considerably over the centuries, and these are reflected in the various literary genres of all eras. In its introduction, this book provides a concise, yet thorough, overview of this phenomenon, citing key examples taken from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Each of the eight chapters which constitute Part One of this study then focuses on representations of a particular mental health issue in a work of literature produced by a twenty-first-century French woman…
This study explores representations of mental health in literature, focusing on works by 21st-century French women writers. It situates these portrayals in relation to current attitudes and practices, and discusses the benefit of their translation for an Anglophone readership.
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This volume deepens thinking and research about literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It develops the understanding that a number of acclaimed literary texts have reflected, in imaginative and memorable ways, a distinctive Catholic sensibility, identity and philosophy of life, and, in so doing, have shed light on profound spiritual experiences in a variety of fictional settings.
This volume explores how acclaimed literary texts of the 19th and 20th centuries reflect a distinctive Catholic sensibility, shedding light on profound spiritual experiences in imaginative and memorable ways.
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This book includes thirteen short stories, chosen to illustrate various modes of narration and to provoke reflection on a range of issues. The texts illustrate how great writers can, with their insight and gift for words, help us to see the world in which we live in new probing and exciting ways. Upon the completion of this book, learners will be able to read to find and handle information for a range of purposes, as well as read to enjoy and respond to a variety of texts. The book will…
These thirteen short stories from great writers help us see the world in new, exciting ways. The book integrates literary competence, communicative competence, and critical thinking skills, equipping the reader to read, write, and communicate more effectively.
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Creative writing is a responsive human activity. We use it to respond to the world, to our feelings, to ideas, to observations, to other people, to historical and cultural events, and to the wonders created in our imaginations. This book shows how we go about doing this responding. Contributors discuss practice-led research in creative writing. They look at the ways a writer can use language or employ genre and consider how we each define themes and subjects and use writing techniques to explore to these themes and subjects. In examining…
Creative writing is a response to the world. This book shows how writers use language, genre, and technique to explore themes and subjects. Discover how to produce inventive results that improve your own creative writing and critical understanding.
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Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays
Unspeakable Sentences after Unspeakable Sentences
The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned, more or less directly, with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, that is, the sentences that do not bear any explicit mark nor any implicit indication of a first person and which are not interpretable as the expression of a speaker’s subjectivity. Chief among them are the sentences of free indirect style, which this book prefers to call sentences of “represented speech and thought.” All of these essays were written after the publication of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation…
The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, using Unspeakable Essays (1982) as a theoretical framework for further exploration into linguistics, philosophy and the analysis of narrative and the novel.
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Current Topics in Language and Literature
An International Perspective
This volume brings together 15 peer-reviewed papers which discuss numerous current topics in language and literature. It synthesizes various contemporary practical topics in post-secondary education written by active researchers and practitioners in their respective areas. By using research methods such as mixed methods, case studies, discourse analysis, grounded theory and the repertory grid, the contributors offer insights into the ways in which higher education continuously changes and evolves to face constant challenges resulting from new instructional practices. Taking this into consideration, this book will help educators, researchers and students to…
Through varied research methods this volume synthesizes various contemporary practical topics in post-secondary education written by active researchers and practitioners in their respective areas. In doing so it offers insights into the ever-evolving nature of higher education.
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This collection brings together scholarship in theoretical and applied linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and second language studies. The contributors here investigate the nature of linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity, offering rich insights for theoretical advancement in multiple disciplines. Their theoretical and practical explications on discourse, literature, and linguistic structure contribute to a multifaceted conversation about diversity in language structure and use. From the relationships between eye contact and mindfulness, to the question of the universality of critical thinking, the topics in this volume represent a wide variety…
This collection explores linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity. Contributors from linguistics, literary studies, and more offer insights on topics from the relationship between eye contact and mindfulness to the universality of critical thinking.
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The Legacy of János S. Petőfi
Text Linguistics, Literary Theory and Semiotics
János S. Petőfi (1931-2013) was one of the founders of Text Linguistics in Germany in the early ‘70s. He developed different text models, the most famous of which were the Text Structure World Structure Theory (TeSWeST) and Semiotic Textology. In this volume, some of his colleagues and disciples discuss his theoretical contributions to prove the enormous impact of his thoughts in the fields of linguistics, literary theory, rhetoric and semiotics. The essays here consider the notion of coherence, which Petőfi deemed to be the only sufficient condition for textuality, the…
János S. Petőfi was a founder of Text Linguistics. In this volume, his colleagues and disciples discuss his enormous impact on linguistics, literary theory, rhetoric and semiotics. Essays consider topics like coherence and the analysis of literary and multimedial texts.
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Explorations in Humor Studies
Humor Research Project
Working towards a multifaceted debate on humor and related phenomena, this book is a comprehensive reflection of the contributors’ shared interest in various dimensions of humor and its manifold applications. It is composed of a selection of writings that provide important insights into language used for humorous purposes. Theoretical discussions are complemented by an assortment of case studies in linguistics, culture, literature, and translation, as well as in visual and media studies.
This book explores the various dimensions of humor and its applications. It provides important insights into humorous language through theoretical discussions complemented by case studies in linguistics, culture, literature, translation, and visual and media studies.
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The World of Languages and Literatures
A Contemporary Outlook
This book offers contemporary perspectives on different registers of instruction, media language, the effectiveness of a multi-literacies program for introducing English as a Foreign Language, promoting religious tolerance through literature and music, teaching drama, intercultural communication, gender studies and literature studies. By using contemporary research methods, the contributors here offer insights into the ways in which the world of languages and literatures changes and evolves to face the constant challenges resulting from new instructional practices and research investigations, allowing educators, researchers and students alike to keep up with, and stay…
This book offers contemporary perspectives on the evolving world of languages and literatures. Using contemporary research, these essays highlight the dynamic global prism through which scholars view these issues, allowing educators, researchers and students to stay current.
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Publius Papinius Statius was born in Naples (Neapolis) around the middle of the first century AD, the son of a distinguished professional poet. Statius’ own oeuvre was considerable: an epic in twelve books on the theme of the Seven against Thebes; an unfinished epic on the story of Achilles of which one book and a portion of a second survive; and five books of Siluae comprising thirty-two occasional poems written for rich patrons. This volume presents a text of the Siluae with a facing translation, preceded by a chronologically arranged…
The Siluae of Statius are five books of occasional poems written for rich patrons. This volume presents the text with a facing translation, an introduction to the transmission of the text, and a bibliography of relevant secondary literature.
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Translation in the Digital Age
Translation 4.0
Translation, interpreting and translatology face major challenges today, as new technologies provide new ways of investigating our profession, analysing the process of performing these acts of linguistic mediation, or the outcome of our work, and even permit a fresh look at old data. However, aside from a certain improvement in terms of research possibilities, what else does the future hold for translation and interpreting? This volume proposes the label Translation 4.0, suggesting that contemporary translation should actually be understood as programmatic as expressions such as Industry 4.0 and Internet 4.0,…
New technologies challenge translation and interpreting. This volume introduces “Translation 4.0″—the application of internet technology to communication between humans and machines—and explores the consequences for research and the profession.
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This book investigates the translation potential of names in children’s literature through the analysis of the translational patterns of names from English into Greek in the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. More specifically, it proposes a new name taxonomy wherein names are envisaged as multidimensional entities consisting of a thematic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic dimension and linked with their translation potential through the detailed exploration of name-type and translation procedure. It is suggested that the extensive use of the translation procedures of transcription and literal translation could be…
This book investigates the translation potential of names in children’s literature using *Harry Potter*. It proposes a new functional name-translation model, arguing that while some functions are lost in translation, other important ones are brought to the spotlight.
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This book comprises a selection of 168 poems from the extant 514 poems by Du Mu (803－852), a distinguished poet of the Tang dynasty in China, and it is the first poetry anthology which translates Du Mu’s work from Chinese into English. The author, Zhang Zhizhong, as a poet and prolific translator, is sensitive to the poetic nuances in Chinese poems, which ensures his success in rendering them into English. Zhang’s view on poetry translation can be summarized as follows: spirit over form. This philosophy is embodied in the present…
This is the first English poetry anthology of Du Mu, a distinguished Tang dynasty poet. Translator Zhang Zhizhong’s philosophy of “spirit over form” is embodied in this collection, which will interest those studying Chinese culture and poetry.
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