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Author Ippolito, Margherita, author

Title Simplication, explicitation and normalization : corpus-based research into English to Italian translations of children's classics / by Margherita Ippolito
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 129 pages) : illustrations
Summary The search for general laws and regularities in Translation Studies gained new momentum in the 1990s when Baker (1993) promoted the use of large electronic corpora as research tools for exploring the linguistic features that render the language of translation different from the language of non-translated texts. By comparing a corpus of translated and non-translated English texts, Baker and her research team put forward the hypothesis that translated texts are characterized by some ""universal ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-129)
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Subject Children's literature -- Translations -- History and criticism
Children's literature, Italian -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
Linguistics.
Children's & teenage literature studies.
Fiction in translation.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Children's literature -- Translations
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443867368
1443867365
1322144958
9781322144955