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Understanding im/politeness through translation : the English-Greek paradigm / Maria Sidiropoulou.

9783030635305 (electronic bk.)
3030635309 (electronic bk.)
3030635295
9783030635299

Cham : Springer, 2021.

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-63530-5 doi

P306

418/.02

This book offers a unique window to the study of im/politeness by looking at a translation perspective, which offers a different set of data and allows further understanding of the phenomenon. In the arena of real-life translation practice, the workings of im/politeness are renegotiated in a different cultural context and thus pragmatically oriented cross-cultural differences become more concrete and tangible. The book focuses on the language pair English and Greek, a strategic choice with Greek as a less widely spoken language and English as a global language. The two languages also differ in their politeness orientation in certain genres, which allows for a fruitful comparison. The volume focuses on press translation first, then translation of academic texts and translation for the stage, and finally audiovisual translation (mainly subtitles). These genres highlight a public, an interactional, and a multimodal dimension in the workings of im/politeness.

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Advances in (Im)politeness Studies.

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