The Moving Text: Localization, Translation, and Distribution

by Anthony Pym

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588115089
• ISBN13: 9781588115089
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 244 Pages