TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellos,David
TI  - Is that a fish in your ear?: translation and the meaning of everything 
SN  - 9780865478763
AV  - P306 B394 2012 
U1  - 418.02 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Translating and interpreting
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue -- What is translation? -- Is translation avoidable? -- Why do we call it "translation"? -- Things people say about translation -- Fictions of the foreign : the pardox of "foreign-soundingness" -- Native command : is your language really yours? -- Meaning is no simple thing -- Words are even worse -- Understanding dictionaries -- The myth of literal translation -- The issue of trust : the long shadow of oral translation -- Custom cuts : making forms fit -- What can't be said can't be translated : the axiom of effability -- How many words do we have for coffee? -- Bibles and bananas : the vertical axis of translation relations -- Translation impacts -- The third code : translation as a dialect -- No language is an island : the awkward issue of L3 -- Global flows : center and periphery in the translation of books -- A question of human rights : translation and the spread of international law -- Ceci n'est pas une traduction : language parity in the European Union -- Translating news -- The adventure of automated language-translation machines -- A fish in your ear : the short history of simultaneous interpreting -- Match me if you can : translating humor -- Style and translation -- Translating literary texts -- What translators do -- Beating the bounds : what translation is not -- Under fire : sniping at translation -- Sameness, likeness, and match : truths about translation -- Avatar : a parable of translation -- Afterbabble : in lieu of an epilogue
N2  - "Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another?"--Publisher's website
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