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  • On Psychological Aspects of Translation

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 1 - Translation Studies
    Translation science is going through a preliminary stage of self-definition. Jakobson’s essay “On linguistic aspects of translation”, whose title is re-echoed in the title of this article, despite the linguistic approach suggested, opened, in 1959, the study of translation to disciplines other than linguistics, semiotics to start with. Many developments in the semiotics of translation – ... Read more

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  • Cognitive distortion, translation distortion, and poetic distortion as semiotic shifts

    by Bruno Osimo, Sofia A. Osimo ...
    Series Book 1 - Translation Studies
    Both interlingual translation shifts and poetic production can be seen in a semiotic perspective in terms of mental filtering. The shared ground of the three processes – cognition translation versification – is to be found in a semiotic perspective: signs (prototext, reality, perception) are interpreted and worked through (mind, interpretants, cognition) and give as an output an object (metatext, ... Read more

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  • Translating the Culturally Specific

    A Guide to Realia and Culture-Bound Concepts

    by Sergej Vlahov, Sider Florin ...
    What happens when a word carries an entire culture within it?From national dishes and traditional clothing to historical institutions, currency, and local idioms, every language contains realia—culture-bound terms that lack a direct equivalent in other languages. How can a translator render both the precise meaning and the unique cultural sense of these terms without losing their original flavor ... Read more

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  • Basic Notions of Translation Theory

    Semiotics, linguistics, psychology, for B.A. students

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 7 - Translation Studies
    This book reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation theory which is split between ... Read more

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  • History of Translation

    Contributions to Translation Science in History: Authors, Ideas, Debate

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 15 - Translation Studies
    A guide to authors who have made a contribution to the theory of sense in history and, ultimately, to translation theory. The book is divided into 5 chapters: Signification, Communication, Mind, Culture, Criticism ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Translation Studies

    with terms of semiotics, textology, linguistics, stylistics

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 16 - Translation Studies
    A Dictionary of Translation Studies with 250 terms of semiotics, psychology textology, linguistics, stylistics. The most complete on the market, comprehensive of the terms of Peircean semiotics and the Tartu-Moscow school, of the Nitra school, and of the Israeli-Netherlandish school. Written originally in English by the students of the Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori «Altiero Spinelli», ... Read more

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  • Lost in Translation

    How Culture Shapes What We See, Say, and Think

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 11 - Translation Studies
    We all look at the same world, but we don't all see it the same way.Why does a simple phrase like "I had breakfast" conjure up images of coffee and a croissant for an Italian, but sausages and cabbage for a Russian? Why is putting your hands in your pockets seen as casual in one culture and rude in another? The answer lies not in the words we use, but in the invisible filter of culture that shapes ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Translation Studies

    A reference volume for professional translators and M.A. students Second edition

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 18 - Translation Studies
    This Handbook of Translation Studies reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovič, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation ... Read more

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  • Translation Studies. Contributions from Eastern Europe

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 23 - Translation Studies
    The main aim of this paper is to review some of the most useful Slavic and Estonian contributions to translation studies in the last century. ... Read more

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  • Juri Lotman's Translation Handbook

    What a translation handbook would look like if written by Lotman

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 17 - Translation Studies
    This book is based on the principle that it is possible to create a text using the writings of an author, focusing on a theme that was not necessarily considered as fundamental or central in the original author’s view. Lotman has never dealt with translation, meant as a professional practice. However, he has often used the word perevod [translation] and its derivatives to talk about semiotics. In ... Read more

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  • Literary Translation and Terminological Precision

    with examples from the stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 6 - Translation Studies
    Vladimir Nabokov was a major translator and translation theorist. His idea of translation, which resembles his general view of reality, is extremely helpful when it comes to carry out a critical analysis of Chekhov’s short stories and an evaluation of the possible translation strategies to adopt. In order to explain the subjectivity of reality, in an interview Nabokov used the example of the lily. ... Read more

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  • Roman Jakobson's Translation Handbook

    What a translation manual would look like if written by Jakobson

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 12 - Translation Studies
    Roman Jakobson has had a strange fate. Everybody knows his name and are willing to recognise him as an important character of the global cultural scene. Few, however, have read what he wrote beyond those four or five famous quotes. Quotes that, taken out of context, might not be understood completely and correctly. The selected works by Jakobson are in eight large volumes. Taking into account that ... Read more

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