Voices in Translation: Bridging Cultural DividesGunilla M. Anderman Multilingual Matters, 2007 - 160 páginas In choosing to render dialect and vernacular speech into Scots, Bill Findlay, to whose memory this volume is dedicated, made a pioneering contribution in safeguarding the authenticity of voices in translation. The scene of the book is set by an overview of approaches to rendering foreign voices in English translation including those of the people to whom Findlay introduced us in his Scots dialect versions of European plays. Martin Bowman, his frequent co-translator follows with a discussion of their co-translation of playwright Jeanne-Mance Delisle. Different ways of bridging the cultural divide in the translation between English and a number of plays written in a number of European languages are then illustrated including the custom of creating English versions, an approach rejected by contributions that argue in favour of minimal intervention on the part of the translator. But transferring the social and cultural milieu that the speakers of other languages inhabit may also cause problems in translation, as discussed by some translators of fiction. In addition attention is drawn to the translators' own attitude and the influence of the time in which they live. In conclusion, stronger forces in the form of political events are highlighted that may also, adversely or positively, have a bearing on the translation process. |
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... language , a voice has to be found in the new language that closely resembles that of the original . It is equally difficult for the translator to find appropriate means of expression in another language for what speakers may engage in ...
... language strongly coloured by her Bavarian dialect . And in his commentary to his translation of The Cherry Orchard by the Russian play- wright Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn points out that each of the charac- ters speaks in their own ...
... language with the equivalent written word in the target language . And with spoken varieties of the classical languages no longer in existence , limited attention was given to difference in genre and the fact that people rarely speak ...
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