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Lost in Translation

How Culture Shapes What We See, Say, and Think

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 11 - Translation Studies
We all look at the same world, but we don't all see it the same way.Why does a simple phrase like "I had breakfast" conjure up images of coffee and a croissant for an Italian, but sausages and cabbage for a Russian? Why is putting your hands in your pockets seen as casual in one culture and rude in another? The answer lies not in the words we use, but in the invisible filter of culture that shapes ... Read more

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We all look at the same world, but we don't all see it the same way.Why does a simple phrase like "I had breakfast" conjure up images of coffee and a croissant for an Italian, but sausages and cabbage for a Russian? Why is putting your hands in your pockets seen as casual in one culture and rude in another? The answer lies not in the words we use, but in the invisible filter of culture that shapes
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On Psychological Aspects of Translation

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 1 - Translation Studies
Translation science is going through a preliminary stage of self-definition. Jakobson’s essay “On linguistic aspects of translation”, whose title is re-echoed in the title of this article, despite the linguistic approach suggested, opened, in 1959, the study of translation to disciplines other than linguistics, semiotics to start with. Many developments in the semiotics of translation – ... Read more

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Translation science is going through a preliminary stage of self-definition. Jakobson’s essay “On linguistic aspects of translation”, whose title is re-echoed in the title of this article, despite the linguistic approach suggested, opened, in 1959, the study of translation to disciplines other than linguistics, semiotics to start with. Many developments in the semiotics of translation –
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Basic Notions of Translation Theory

Semiotics, linguistics, psychology, for B.A. students

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 7 - Translation Studies
This book reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation theory which is split between ... Read more

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This book reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation theory which is split between
... Read more
Prototext-Metatext Shifts

A New Model for a Comparison

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 10 - Translation Studies
In our society people deal with translation quality in various contexts, which seldom share information. The first context one comes into contact with it is university: in bachelor’s and master’s degree translation courses teachers do not evaluate translations by testing linguistic abilities anymore. Translations are now considered as texts in themselves that can be more or less independent from ... Read more

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In our society people deal with translation quality in various contexts, which seldom share information. The first context one comes into contact with it is university: in bachelor’s and master’s degree translation courses teachers do not evaluate translations by testing linguistic abilities anymore. Translations are now considered as texts in themselves that can be more or less independent from
... Read more
Dictionary of Translation Studies

with terms of semiotics, textology, linguistics, stylistics

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 16 - Translation Studies
A Dictionary of Translation Studies with 250 terms of semiotics, psychology textology, linguistics, stylistics. The most complete on the market, comprehensive of the terms of Peircean semiotics and the Tartu-Moscow school, of the Nitra school, and of the Israeli-Netherlandish school. Written originally in English by the students of the Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori «Altiero Spinelli», ... Read more

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A Dictionary of Translation Studies with 250 terms of semiotics, psychology textology, linguistics, stylistics. The most complete on the market, comprehensive of the terms of Peircean semiotics and the Tartu-Moscow school, of the Nitra school, and of the Israeli-Netherlandish school. Written originally in English by the students of the Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori «Altiero Spinelli»,
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History of Translation

Contributions to Translation Science in History: Authors, Ideas, Debate

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 15 - Translation Studies
A guide to authors who have made a contribution to the theory of sense in history and, ultimately, to translation theory. The book is divided into 5 chapters: Signification, Communication, Mind, Culture, Criticism ... Read more

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A guide to authors who have made a contribution to the theory of sense in history and, ultimately, to translation theory. The book is divided into 5 chapters: Signification, Communication, Mind, Culture, Criticism
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Translation Studies. Contributions from Eastern Europe

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 23 - Translation Studies
The main aim of this paper is to review some of the most useful Slavic and Estonian contributions to translation studies in the last century. ... Read more

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The main aim of this paper is to review some of the most useful Slavic and Estonian contributions to translation studies in the last century.
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Juri Lotman's Translation Handbook

What a translation handbook would look like if written by Lotman

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 17 - Translation Studies
This book is based on the principle that it is possible to create a text using the writings of an author, focusing on a theme that was not necessarily considered as fundamental or central in the original author’s view. Lotman has never dealt with translation, meant as a professional practice. However, he has often used the word perevod [translation] and its derivatives to talk about semiotics. In ... Read more

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This book is based on the principle that it is possible to create a text using the writings of an author, focusing on a theme that was not necessarily considered as fundamental or central in the original author’s view. Lotman has never dealt with translation, meant as a professional practice. However, he has often used the word perevod [translation] and its derivatives to talk about semiotics. In
... Read more
Handbook of Translation Studies

A reference volume for professional translators and M.A. students Second edition

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 18 - Translation Studies
This Handbook of Translation Studies reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation ... Read more

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This Handbook of Translation Studies reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation
... Read more
Roman Jakobson's Translation Handbook

What a translation manual would look like if written by Jakobson

by Bruno Osimo ...

Series Book 12 - Translation Studies
Roman Jakobson has had a strange fate. Everybody knows his name and are willing to recognise him as an important character of the global cultural scene. Few, however, have read what he wrote beyond those four or five famous quotes. Quotes that, taken out of context, might not be understood completely and correctly. The selected works by Jakobson are in eight large volumes. Taking into account that ... Read more

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Roman Jakobson has had a strange fate. Everybody knows his name and are willing to recognise him as an important character of the global cultural scene. Few, however, have read what he wrote beyond those four or five famous quotes. Quotes that, taken out of context, might not be understood completely and correctly. The selected works by Jakobson are in eight large volumes. Taking into account that
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Translating the Culturally Specific

A Guide to Realia and Culture-Bound Concepts

by Sergej Vlahov, Sider Florin ...

What happens when a word carries an entire culture within it?From national dishes and traditional clothing to historical institutions, currency, and local idioms, every language contains realia—culture-bound terms that lack a direct equivalent in other languages. How can a translator render both the precise meaning and the unique cultural sense of these terms without losing their original flavor ... Read more

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What happens when a word carries an entire culture within it?From national dishes and traditional clothing to historical institutions, currency, and local idioms, every language contains realia—culture-bound terms that lack a direct equivalent in other languages. How can a translator render both the precise meaning and the unique cultural sense of these terms without losing their original flavor
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Umberto Eco

Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

by Michael Caesar ...

Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. ... Read more

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.
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