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Mouse or Rat

Translation As Negotiation

By Umberto Eco

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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

'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 accessible and dazzling study, he turns his eye on the subject of translations and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. The book is full of little gems about mistranslations and misunderstandings.For example when you put 'Studies in the logic of Charles Sanders Peirce' through an internet translation machine, it becomes 'Studies in the logic of the Charles of sandpaper grinding machines Peirce'. In Italian 'ratto' has no connotation of 'contemptible person' but denotes speed ('you dirty rat' could take on a whole new meaning!) What could be a weighty subject is never dull, fired by Eco's immense wit and erudition, providing an entertaining read that illuminates the process of negotation that all translators must make.

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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)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • 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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