The Secret War Crime, Women in War, The Faults of Oklahoma, Nancy Reagan, 1921-2016, China’s economic slowdown explained, Ian Bremmer on Turkey’s isolation, Europe closes its borders to refugees, Education’s math problem, How to take the perfect nap, The rise of Hong Kong’s independence movement and more…
The Moving Text: Localization, Translation, and Distribution
Anthony Pym here reviews not only key problems in translation theory, but also critical concepts such as cultural resistance, variable transaction costs, segmentation of the labour market, and the dehumanization of technical discourse. The book closes with a plea for the humanizing virtues of translation, over and above the efficiencies of localization.
These were the dark days for Matthew Scudder. An ex-New York cop, he had drowned his career in booze. Now he was drinking away his life in a succession of seedy establishments that opened early and closed late, reduced to doing paid "favors" for the cronies who gathered with him to worship the bottle. Now, in a sad and lonely place like so many before it, opportunity comes knocking - a chance to help the ginmil's owner recover his stolen doctored financial records; a chance to help out a drinking buddy accused of murdering his wife.
