Translation as Social Practice: A Case Study of the Chinese-English Translation Magazine "Renditions"

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Translation as Social Practice: A Case Study of the Chinese-English Translation Magazine "Renditions"

This thesis is a study of translation as a “socially situated activity”(Wolf and Fukari, 2007; Mason, 2014), taking as example the literary translation magazine Renditions, a biannual published by the Research Centre for Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1973. This is...

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Main Author:	WEBER, Caterina
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	Chinese-English; translation; communities of practice; Renditions; literary magazines; authorship
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64927/

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