| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Translation and Metaphor: Setting the Terms; Something old; Imitating Bodies and Clothes: Refashioning the Western Conception of Translation; Performing Translation; Metaphorical Models of Translation: Transfer vs Imitation and Action; Something new; Western Metaphorical Discourses Implicit in Translation Studies; Squeezing the Jellyfish: Early Western Attempts to Characterize Translation from the Japanese; Something borrowed; Metaphor as a Metaphor for Translation; Metaphors for Metaphor Translation |
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Yves Bonnefoy's Metaphors on TranslationSomething blue; Translation as Smuggling; Passing through Translation; An Annotated Bibliography of Works Concerned with Metaphors of Translation; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Thinking through Translation with Metaphors explores a wide range of metaphorical figures used to describe the translation process, from Aristotle to the present. Most practitioners and theorists of translation are familiar with a number of metaphors for translation, such as the metaphor of the bridge, following in another's footsteps, performing a musical score, changing clothes, or painting a portrait; yet relatively little attention has been paid to what these metaphorical models reveal about how we conceptualize translation. Drawing on insights from recent developments in metaphor |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Translating and interpreting.
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Metaphor.
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Metaphor
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metaphor.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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Metaphor
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Translating and interpreting
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317640097 |
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1317640098 |
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1306581931 |
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9781306581936 |
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9781315759746 |
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1315759748 |
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9781317640073 |
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1317640071 |
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9781317640080 |
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131764008X |
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9781138172098 |
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113817209X |
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1905763220 |
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9781905763221 |
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