The Moving Text: Localization, translation, and distribution (Benjamins Translation Library) - Hardcover

Pym, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588115089 ISBN 13: 9781588115089

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004

Synopsis

For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there anything that translation theory can gain from localization? Can localization theory learn anything from the history and complexity of translation? To address those questions, both terms are placed within a more general frame, that of text transfer. Texts are distributed in time and space; localization and translation respond differently to those movements; their relative virtues are thus brought out on common ground.
Anthony Pym here reviews not only key problems in translation theory, but also critical concepts such as cultural resistance, variable transaction costs, segmentation of the labour market, and the dehumanization of technical discourse. The book closes with a plea for the humanizing virtues of translation, over and above the efficiencies of localization.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588115089
• ISBN 13: 9781588115089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244