Catalogo
Tradurre Figure / Translating Figurative Language - Bologna University Press
Collana
Rizomatica, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne - LILEC
Tradurre Figure / Translating Figurative Language
di Donna R. Miller, Enrico Monti
Tradurre Figure / Translating Figurative Language offers 30 original contributions on the interlingual translation of figurative language. The chapters were first presented at an international conference held at the University of Bologna in December 2012 and have been selected through a double peer-reviewed process. Why figurative language in translation? Essentially because figurative language – and the contributions in this book can be seen to prove it – may often foreground the complexities of the translation process, as well as the strong link between language and culture that this process has to renegotiate. Written in either English or Italian, the different contributions of this volume investigate the topic from a wide range of approaches and through several possible language pairs. We are confident that these stimulating and wide-ranging chapters will contribute to casting new light on the practice of translators around the world when dealing with the manifold implications and challenges that figurative language cannot help but pose. Donna R. Miller holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Department of modern languages, literatures and cultures of the University of Bologna, where she heads the Research Centre for Linguistic-Cultural Studies (CeSLiC). Her research has largely focused on register analysis in institutional text types, her corpus-assisted investigations having specifically explored the grammar of evaluation in terms of appraisal systems. For the pas…
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Disciplina
Letteratura e linguistica
Argomento
Linguistica, Interpretazione e Traduzione
Formato
170 × 240 mm
Pagine
444
Anno
2014
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Italiano
ISBN
9788873959892