Understanding Im/politeness Through Translation: The English-Greek Paradigm
Feb 2021 · Springer Nature
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180
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This book offers a unique window to the study of im/politeness by looking at a translation perspective, which offers a different set of data and allows further understanding of the phenomenon. In the arena of real-life translation practice, the workings of im/politeness are renegotiated in a different cultural context and thus pragmatically oriented cross-cultural differences become more concrete and tangible. The book focuses on the language pair English and Greek, a strategic choice with Greek as a less widely spoken language and English as a global language. The two languages also differ in their politeness orientation in certain genres, which allows for a fruitful comparison. The volume focuses on press translation first, then translation of academic texts and translation for the stage, and finally audiovisual translation (mainly subtitles). These genres highlight a public, an interactional, and a multimodal dimension in the workings of im/politeness.
About the author
Maria Sidiropoulou is professor of Translation Studies, director of two translation MAs, one of which is interdepartmental, director of the “META-FRASEIS Translation Studies and Interpreting” Laboratory, and was chair of the Department of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Dec. 2017 – Aug. 2020). Her recent publications deal with intercultural pragmatically oriented issues manifested through translation in the press, in EU documentation, in advertising, in academic discourse, in literature, and on stage and screen.
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