By Valerio Fissore Orality is the pervasive trait of language. It operates at all levels of textuality. Information sequencing is part code-controlled, part author-controlled. The combination of these factors guarantees the quality of meaning. Awareness of this is basic to…
Categoria: Abstracts numero 6
A cura di Katy Hannan
Camilleri around the world
by Elena Sanna Even Italian translators can find it interesting to discover the way a language as unique as that used by Andrea Camilleri in his novels is translated abroad; novels that are currently enjoying enormous success all over the…
Adopting specialist terminology
by Isabella Vaj Understanding a term is one thing, translating it is another. When confronted by the meticulous description of some particular object, especially when it is steeped in culture and history, often translators have considerable difficulty in finding the…