Is That a Fish in Your Ear? - The Amazing Adventure of Translation. Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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| Verlag | Penguin UK |
| Auflage | 2012 |
| Seiten | 400 |
| Format | 19,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 292 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0241954304 |
| EAN | 9780241954300 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24195430EA |
People speak different languages, and always have. We all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. This title 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.
Klappentext:
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who we are.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011
'A wonderful, witty book ... richly original, endlessly fascinating ... for anyone interested in words' Economist, Books of the Year
'A scintillating bouillabaisse ... spiced with good and provocative things' Literary Review
'Dazzlingly inventive' The New York Times
'Clear and lively ... There is nothing quite like it' Spectator
Rezension:
In the guise of a book about translation this is a richly original cultural history ... A book for anyone interested in words, language and cultural anthropology. Mr Bellos's fascination with his subject is itself endlessly fascinating The Economist
