Translating Egypt's Revolution : The Language of Tahrir.

By:

Mehrez, Samia

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781617975363

Subject(s):

Translating and interpreting--Egypt--History--21st century

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Translating Egypt's RevolutionDDC classification:

418.020962

LOC classification:

P306.8.E3.T736 2012

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Contents:

9789774165337 -- 9789774165337 -- Title Page -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3.

Summary: This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual. Given their range, different linguistic registers, and referential worlds, these documents present a great challenge to any translator.The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership. This mature collective project is in many ways a reenactment of the new infectious revolutionary spirit in Egypt today.

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9789774165337 -- 9789774165337 -- Title Page -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3.

This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual. Given their range, different linguistic registers, and referential worlds, these documents present a great challenge to any translator.The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership. This mature collective project is in many ways a reenactment of the new infectious revolutionary spirit in Egypt today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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