1st Edition

Translating Concepts Metamorphosis through Encounter

By Stefano Arduini Copyright 2027
132 Pages
by Routledge

Translating Concepts explores the way translation has contributed to the development of concepts in Western thought and culture. Concepts are understood as complex and dynamic groupings that form complete pieces of knowledge about the world. The book explores the conviction that by bringing together different ways of conceiving of the world, translation creates concepts; that the meeting... Read more

Chapter 1: Concepts, Chapter 2: Other, Chapter 3: Confines, Chapter 4: Translating, Chapter 5: Interpreting, Chapter 6: Untranslatable, Chapter 7: Metamorphoses, Index

Biography

Stefano Arduini is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Rome Link Campus and President of the Fondazione Unicampus San Pellegrino. He is a member of the Board of the Nida Institute and co-director of the Nida School of Translation Studies.

Ruth Chester is a professional translator and an Affiliated Lecturer and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge.