Across the Lines by Michael G Cronin

Across the Lines by Michael G Cronin

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"Across the Lines" is a study of how language mediates experience across cultures with regard to travel. The study is partly based on the books of various travel writers with no grasp of a foreign tongue and their perceptions using interpreters and guides.

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Across the Lines by Michael G Cronin

"Across the Lines" is a study of how language mediates experience across cultures with regard to travel. The study is partly based on the books of various travel writers with no grasp of a foreign tongue and their perceptions using interpreters and guides.
Cronin, Michael: - Michael Cronin is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies. He has a B.A. and Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin and an M.A. from University College Dublin. He is author of Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages, Identities (Cork University Press, 1996) and Across the Lines: Travel, Language and Translation (Cork University Press, 2000), which was awarded the CATS Vinay-Darbelnet Prize. He is co-editor of Unity in Diversity: Current Trends in Translation Studies (St. Jerome 1998) and Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (Pluto Press, 2002).
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ISBN 13 9781859181836
ISBN 10 185918183X
Title Across the Lines
Author Michael G Cronin
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cork University Press
Year published 2000-01-01
Number of pages 172
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