Traductio - Essays on Punning and Translation

Informationen zum Autor Dirk Delabastita Zusammenfassung Nothing like wordplay can make difference between languages look so uncompromising, can give such a sharp edge to the dilemma between forms and effects, can so blur the line between translation and adaptation, or can cast such harsh light on our illusion of complete semantic stability Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Dirk Delabastita; Chapter 1 Signature in Translation, Kathleen Davis; Chapter 2 Mutual Pun-ishment?, Luise Von Flotow; Chapter 3 A Portion of Slippery Stones, Anneke de Vries, Arian J.C. Verheij; Chapter 4 La Tour de Babylone, Francine Kaufmann; Chapter 5 There Must Be Some System in this Madness, Bistra Alexieva; Chapter 6 The Contextual Use of Idioms, Wordplay, and Translation, Andrejs Veisbergs; Chapter 7 The Search for Essence 'twixt Medium and Message, Douglas R. Hofstadter; Chapter 8 You Got the Picture?, Henrik Gottlieb; Chapter 9 Mapping Shakespeare's Puns in French Translations, Malcolm Offord; Chapter 10 Traduction, Puns, Clichés, Plagiat, Walter Redfern; Chapter 11 What Is It That Renders a Spoonerism (Un)translatable?, Gideon Toury;

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• Authors: Dirk Delabastita
• Assisted by: Dirk Delabastita (Editor), Delabastita Dirk (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2016
• EAN: 9781138149342
• ISBN: 978-1-138-14934-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Translation and interpretation