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?Originally ...

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 West and East according to a sort of 'cultural Berlin wall'.In this book I tried to synt...

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 theory which is split between West and East according to a sort of 'cultural Berlin wall'.

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

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 our every thought.In this groundbreaking and accessible book, Bruno Osimo takes...

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.

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 other words, he used the notion of "translation" to explain certain dynamics of culture and se...

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», Milano, Italia.

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 he wrote on various other topics, from Russian literature, to Slavic philology, to phonology,...

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 their source texts. Marks, whether expressed out of thirty, twenty and so on assign a quantitat...

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

There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood.... On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.—DescartesLanguage is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are determined by laws of nature, they have not developed through the accumulation of histo...