Main entry:

Simon, Sherry, author.

Title & Author:

Translation sites : a field guide / Sherry Simon.

Publication:

Abingdon, OXon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xii, 282 pages : b illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

New perspectives in translation and interpreting studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Introduction: Polyglot places -- I. Architectures of memory: 1. The monument the struggle for memory. the space of synagogues, Lviv -- 2. The opera house languaged architecture. The Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague -- 3. The church the work of conversion, Santa Maria la Blanca, Toledo -- II. Transit: 4. The hotel between place and non-place, difference and indifference. The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Tokyo Park Hyatt -- 5. The mountaintop translation changes you. The language of heptapods -- 6. The tower from ziggurat to spiral, from Brueghel to Primo Levi -- 7. The bridge across small spaces. Where is the 'between'? the Bridge of Mostar and the Øresund Bridge -- 8. The war hotel the Holiday Inn, Sarajevo -- III. Crossroads: 9. The market urban translanguaging. Chungking mansions, Hong Kong -- 10. The street activist translation, the streets of Montreal and Cairo -- 11. The museum displaying indigenous languages, the National Gallery of Canada -- IV. Thresholds: 12. The translator's study picturing translation from Saint Jerome to Nurith Aviv -- 13. The library near and far. Chicago and Czernowitz -- 14. The garden replication. the Japanese Garden in Ireland, the German Garden City in Turkey -- 15. The psychoanalyst's couch the schizo body -- V. Borders, control, surveillance: 16. No man's land the step-mother tongue, the dead zone, Cyprus -- 17. The checkpoint the shibboleth and Ellis Island -- 18. The edge of empire far from where? Joseph Roth and Brody -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- Index.

ISBN:

9781138232853 hardcover
1138232858 hardcover
9781138232860 paperback
1138232866 paperback
(ebook)
9781315311098
ebook
9781315311074

Subject:

Translanguaging (Linguistics) Case studies.
Multilingualism Case studies.
Sociolinguistics Case studies.
Translating and interpreting Case studies.
Translanguaging Études de cas.
Multilinguisme Études de cas.
Sociolinguistique Études de cas.
17.45 translation studies.
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
Translanguaging (Linguistics)
Translating and interpreting

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

New perspectives in translation and interpreting studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306506
Call No.: BIB 252073
Status: Available