Translating the Multilingual City: Cross-Lingual Practices and Language Ideology - Couverture souple

King Lee, Tong

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3034308507 ISBN 13 : 9783034308502

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013

Synopsis

Translation is a textual and discursive practice embedded in competing cultural identities and language ideologies; it is a site through which we can observe the operations and implications of language power. In this regard, multilingual societies provide fertile ground for the exploration of translation practice from the perspective of sociolinguistic tension.
This book examines the relationship between translation-mediated multi-literate practice and language ideology in multilingual Singapore. It problematises literary translation in light of the power relation between the official languages in the city-state, with special emphasis on English and Chinese. Based on published translations and multilingual anthologies, it investigates the implications of such power relations for intercultural communication through translation. The book also discusses how the translational problems that accrue from language ideology may contribute to a nuanced understanding of cross-lingual practice and to the realisation of intercultural knowledge in multilingual Singapore.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tong-King Lee is an assistant professor in translation at the University of Hong Kong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3034308507
• ISBN 13: 9783034308502
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne