Acquire Today Translation: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Assembled By Times Lecturer In English Oxford University And Fellow Matthew Reynolds Available Through Kindle

interessante excellent overview to the field of translation in multiple contexts: politics, business, literature, entertainment, and everything in between.
This book is a valuable introductory college course in translation, It is a very bad book about translation A very nice introduction to the ideas used in translation.
Reynolds does a great job of explaining that translation involves than taking a phrase and just changing the words into equivalents in another language.
He also has a good number of examples to help explain any of the concepts he wishes to explain.
The book also explores what translation can and cannot do with regard to literature and points out how a national literature is a rather modern development in world history.
If you're curious about what translation is, the various types of translations that are done, and a bit of interesting history about translation, then this is a very nice, clear book with numerous examples.
I held back on full mostly because the very shortness of the book leaves me wanting a bit on each of the concepts.
These are very short introductions, but I was left with wanting a bit of an overview, but that is the cost of having short introductions.
Makes very good use of limited space to discuss the intricacies of translation, It is also balanced, and does not harp on the lost in translation theme any than necessary.
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 unrecognizable 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 determines meaning how it matters in commerce empire conflict and resistance and why it is fundamental to literature and the arts ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject uickly Our expert authors combine

facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readableTranslation 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 unrecognizable.

In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thoughtprovoking account of the field, from ancient Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate.
He shows how translation determines meaning, how it matters in commerce, empire, conflict and resistance, and why it is fundamental to literature and the arts.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.
These pocketsized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly, Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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 unrecognizable.

In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thoughtprovoking account of the field, from ancient Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate.
He shows how translation determines meaning, how it matters in commerce, empire, conflict and resistance, and why it is fundamental to literature and the arts.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.
These pocketsized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly, Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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