Quarterly Essay 52, Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World

by Linda Jaivin and Jane Wong

Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles, and mistranslations in international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863956301
• ISBN13: 9781863956307
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Black Inc.
• Length: 110 Pages
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