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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... speech of ordinary people was not considered to be appropriate language for use on stage . When , in 1914 , Shaw's Pygmalion first opened at His Majesty's Theatre in London with Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Professor Higgins and Mrs Patrick ...
... speech from the lie that it is already human . ( Apter , 2006 : 151 , citing Adorno , 1974 : 102 ) Apter comments on this passage : Though on one level Adorno seems to be fingering working - class dialect as a resource of ressentiment ...
... speech , whether rural or urban , and then enrich it from literary sources ( Burns and the vernacular revivalists ) or from more general popular culture ( Lochhead's George Formby to Ogden Nash , referred to above ) . The written Scots ...
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