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Understanding Im/politeness Through Translation - The English-Greek Paradigm

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This book offers a unique window to the study of im/politeness by looking at a translation perspective, which offers a different set of data and allows further understanding of the phenomenon. In the arena of real-life translation practice, the workings of im/politeness are renegotiated in a different cultural context and thus pragmatically oriented cross-cultural differences become more concrete and tangible. The book focuses on the language pair English and Greek, a strategic choice with Greek as a less widely spoken language and English as a global language. The two languages also differ in their politeness orientation in certain genres, which allows for a fruitful comparison. The volume focuses on press translation first, then translation of academic texts and translation for the stage, and finally audiovisual translation (mainly subtitles). These genres highlight a public, an interactional, and a multimodal dimension in the workings of im/politeness.

List of contents

Preface.- Part I: IM/POLITENESS IN THE TRANSLATED PRESS.- Part II: IM/POLITENESS THROUGH STAGE TRANSLATION.- Part III: AUDIOVISUAL ASPECTS OF IM/POLITENESS.- Concluding remarks.- Index.

About the author










Maria Sidiropoulou is professor of Translation Studies, director of two translation MAs,  one of which is interdepartmental, director of the "META-FRASEIS Translation Studies and Interpreting" Laboratory, and was chair of the Department of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Dec. 2017 - Aug. 2020). Her recent publications deal with intercultural pragmatically oriented issues manifested through translation in the press, in EU documentation, in advertising, in academic discourse, in literature, and on stage and screen.

Product details

Authors Maria Sidiropoulou
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 16.02.2022
 
EAN 9783030635329
ISBN 978-3-0-3063532-9
No. of pages 180
Dimensions 155 mm x 11 mm x 235 mm
Illustrations XIX, 180 p. 18 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Series Advances in (Im)politeness Studies
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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