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Voices in Translation - Bridging Cultural Divides (Paperback)
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Voices in Translation - Bridging Cultural Divides (Paperback)
Series: Translating Europe
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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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