Translation and Globalization.
Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation. The...
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Taylor and Francis,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Translation and Globalization; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Echolands: translation now; 1 Translation and the global economy; Translation; The informational and global economy; Self and the Net; Informational and aesthetic goods; Localization and culture; Communication and transmission; The message is the medium; Translation tools; Material organization; Multiple modernities; Down to earth; 2 Globalization and new translation paradigms; Translation and the de-materialization of space; Networks and networking.
- Market utopianism, Americanization and the developmental stateAgency and neo-Babelianism; Translators and mediation; Fidelity and time; Diversity; 3 Globalization and the new geography of translation; Global definitions and historical experiences; Localization and hegemony; Countering hegemony in translation; The censorship of translation experience; The refusal to translate and the global city; 4 Globalization and the new politics of translation; Fluid modernity; Time, transmission and the supra-national; Cyborgs and machine translation; Literary translation and market time.
- Translator statusTranslation and creativity; The Double and 'clonialism'; Incompleteness and metonym; 5 Translation and minority languages in a global setting; Invisible minorities; Minority languages and science and technology; Common conditions; Travelling minorities: language, translation and the global; Remainders; Asymmetrical relations; Travelling/dwelling; Translation ecology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
