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Title Travel and translation in the early modern period / edited by Carmine G. Di Biase
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages)
Series Approaches to translation studies ; v. 26
Approaches to translation studies ; v. 26.
Contents Introduction: The Example of the Early Modern Lexicographer; Section 1: Towards the Vernacular; Section 2: The English in Italy and Spain; Section 3: The European as Other and the Other in Europe; Section 4: Towards Art and Parody; Index
Summary The relationship between travel and translation might seem obvious at first, but to study it in earnest is to discover that it is at once intriguing and elusive. Of course, travelers translate in order to make sense of their new surroundings; sometimes they must translate in order to put food on the table. The relationship between these two human compulsions, however, goes much deeper than this. What gets translated, it seems, is not merely the written or the spoken word, but the very identity of the traveler. These seventeen essays--which treat not only such well-known figures as Martin Luther
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects
Travel writing -- History and criticism
Intercultural communication.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Intercultural communication
Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects
Travel writing
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Di Biase, Carmine, 1959-
ISBN 1423788265
9781423788263
9789401201957
9401201951