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'Translation is always a shift,not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.' Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on literature and language. In this aContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Speaking in tongues
Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco 200pp, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99 I wonder from time to time why most of "my" authors are dead. Isn't there something unhealthy about that? What does it say about me? Perhaps I should go out ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 208 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0753817985
- ISBN-13: 9780753817988
- Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Pub date: Dec 02, 2004
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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| 9780753817988 | Paperback | $13.10 | $10.53 | The Book Depository |
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What's lost in the translation
Mouse or Rat? Umberto Eco Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £12.99, pp200 Umberto Ecco is an eclectic and brilliant writer and if anyone can make a book with a subtitle 'Translation as Negotiation' interesting, then he can. To recap, in one of his earlier sem ... (read full critics)