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Translation: A Very Short Introduction

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Translation: A Very Short Introduction

By Matthew Reynolds

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About the book

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, from ancient Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate. He shows how translation de...Show more

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9780198712114

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Oxford University Press

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2016

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Translation: A Very Short Introduction

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