Translation and Linguistic Hybridity: Constructing World-View

by Susanne Klinger

Book Overview

This volume outlines a new approach to the study of linguistic hybridity and its translation in cross-cultural writing. By building on concepts from narratology, cognitive poetics, stylistics, and film studies, it explores how linguistic hybridity contributes to the reader's construction of the textual agents' world-view and how it can be exploited in order to encourage the reader to empathise with one world-view rather than another and, consequently,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138801593
• ISBN13: 9781138801592
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"