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Zusatztext An engaging exploration of the intralingual translation of British novels for an American readership. Bringing together insights from translation studies, stylistics, multimodality and publishing practices, Pillière convincingly shows the need for translation studies to move beyond the linguistic text and to consider the book as the product of a collaborative enterprise. An original contribution to translation studies and multimodal stylistics. Informationen zum Autor Linda Pillière is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Aix-Marseille University, France. Vorwort Analyses how British English novels are rewritten and adapted for the American English market. Zusammenfassung Shortlisted for the ESSE 2022 Book Awards Shortlisted for the 2022 SAES / AFEA Research Prize Building on an upsurge of interest in the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter series, this book explores the various ways that British novels, from children’s fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have been adapted and rewritten for the US market. Drawing on a vast corpus of over 80 works and integrating the latest research in multimodality and stylistics, Linda Pillière analyses the modifications introduced to make British English texts more culturally acceptable and accessible to the American English reader. From paratextual differences in cover, illustrations, typeface and footnotes to dialectal changes to lexis, tense, syntax and punctuation, Pillière explores the sociocultural and ideological pressures involved in intralingual translation and shows how the stylistic effects of such changes – including loss of meaning, voice, rhythm and word play – often result in a more muted American edition. In doing so, she reveals how homing in on numerous small adjustments can provide fascinating insights into the American publishing process and readership. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Defining The Terms 2. Editing The Text 3. Repackaging The Text 4. Americanising The Text 5. Crafting The Text 6. Re-Voicing The Text Conclusion Corpus References Index ...
