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benjamins.com>Title: The Moving Text Subtitle: Localization, translation, and distribution Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 49 Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=BTL_49 Author: Anthony Pym, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Hardback: ISBN: 902721655X, Pages: xviii, 223 pp., Price: EUR 85.00 Hardback: ISBN: 1588115089, Pages: xviii, 223 pp., Price: USD 102.00 Abstract: For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there anything that translation theory can gain from localization? Can localization theory learn anything from the history and complexity of translation? To address those questions, both terms are placed within a more general frame, that of text transfer. Texts are distributed in time and space; localization and translation respond differently to those movements; their relative virtues are thus brought out on common ground. Anthony Pym here reviews not only key problems in translation theory, but also critical concepts such as cultural resistance, variable transaction costs, segmentation of the labour market, and the dehumanization of technical discourse. The book closes with a plea for the humanizing virtues of translation, over and above the efficiencies of localization. Table of contents Introduction xv 1. Distribution 1--28 2. Assymetries of distribution 29--50 3. Equivalence, malgr� tout 51--65 4. How translations speak 67--86 5. Quantity speaks 87--109 6. Belonging as resistance 111--132 7. Transaction costs 133--157 8. Professionalization 159--179 9. Humanizing discourse 181--198 Notes 199--203 References 205--213 Subject index 215 Lingfield(s): Translation Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=9350.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue