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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Author: David Bellos

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN: 0865478767

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 384

View: 944

An NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Language: en
Pages: 384

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Authors: David Bellos
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-16 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

An NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans
Is that a Fish in Your Ear?
Language: en
Pages: 390

Is that a Fish in Your Ear?

Authors: David Bellos
Categories: Translating and interpreting
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Penguin UK

How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This question is at the heart of David Bellos's funny, wise and life-affirming book, which shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do -
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Language: en
Pages: 272

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Authors: David Bellos
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Penguin UK

People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation
Translating Religion
Language: en
Pages: 228

Translating Religion

Authors: Mary Doak, Anita Houck
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Orbis Books

A peer-reviewed original collection of essays on how faith and religious traditions have been and are being translated, whether by language, culture, context, migration, or many other factors.
100 Statements about Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Language: en
Pages: 44

100 Statements about Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Authors: John Seeding
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01 - Publisher: Lennex

In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything." Don't say we didn't warn you: these reviews are known to shock with their unconventionality

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