The Moving Text

Localization, translation, and distribution

Bibliographic Data

ID23399455
AuthorsAnthony Pym (0000-0002-9440-0886, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, corresponding author)
Year2004
Pages220
Publication date2004-02-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe moving text (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/btl.49
OpenAlexW4234637614
Open LibraryOL3301843M
ISBN9789027216557
LanguageEN
Citations received62

For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there anything that translation theory can gain from localization? Can localization theory learn anything from the history and complexity of translation? To address those questions, both terms are placed within a more general frame, that of text transfer. Texts are distributed in time and space; localization and translation respond differently to those movements; their relative virtues are thus brought out on common ground. Anthony Pym here reviews not only key problems in translation theory, but also critical concepts such as cultural resistance, variable transaction costs, segmentation of the labour market, and the dehumanization of technical discourse. The book closes with a plea for the humanizing virtues of translation, over and above the efficiencies of localization.

Dehumanization · Dynamic and formal equivalence · Epistemology · Linguistics · Machine translation · Plea · Political science · Space (punctuation) · Translation (biology) · Translation studies · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices · Tradução (interpretação;filosofia) · Traduction · Translating and interpreting

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