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Translating Song: Lyrics and Texts (Translation Practices - download pdf or read online

By Peter Low

ISBN-10: 1138641782

ISBN-13: 9781138641785

ISBN-10: 1138641790

ISBN-13: 9781138641792

This enticing step by step advisor prescribes powerful ideas and strategies for translating a variety of songs and different vocal track, from classical to modern. concentrating on top perform and with quite a few language examples, the e-book centres on 4 key themes:





  • translating songs for a variety of recipients and inside varied contexts (skopos theory)



  • translating songs for analyzing on paper or on monitors (surtitles and subtitles)



  • "singable translations" and the Pentathlon Approach



  • translating expressive texts.



With a considerable advent, six insightful chapters, additional examining and a thesaurus of key words (also to be had at https://www.routledge.com/9781138641792 and at the Routledge Translation reviews Portal), this energetic and transparent student-friendly consultant is key for college kids, researchers and practitioners taken with or learning the perform of translating track. this can even be an engaging learn for musicians and all these attracted to the research of song.

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