Sociocultural aspects of translating and interpreting / edited by Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger, Zuzana Jettmarová.

A collection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Translation and Interpreting, held at Prague, Czech Republic, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.

On the social and cultural in translation studies -- Trends in the translation of a minority language : the case of Dutch -- "Of course Germans have a certain interest in Finland, but..." : openness to finnish literature in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s -- Translation from the point of view of the East German censorship files -- Choosing not to translate : zero translations in the first Portuguese Robinson Crusoe -- From Robinson Crusoe to Robinson in Wallachia : the intricacies of the reception process -- Translating from across the channel in nineteenth-century France : Philarete Chasles, Thackeray and Jules Janin -- English translation in Gujarat : emerging consensus -- Between translation and traduction : the many paradoxes of Deux Solitudes -- Bilingual translation/writing as intercultural communication -- The female state of the art : women in the "translation field" -- Translation as discursive import : changes in the transfer of proper nouns in Latvian -- "Translation culture" in interpreted asylum hearings -- Interpreting at an immigration detention center in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria : communication and power -- Negotiating linguistic and cultural identities in interpreter-mediated communication for public health services -- Babel rebuilt : a survey of social welfare institutions and interpreting and translation services in Flanders -- From 10-minute wedding ceremonies to three-week spa treatment programmes : reconstructing the system of sign language interpreting in Styria -- "Going social?" : on the pathways and paradigms in interpreting studies.

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