Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Linda Jaivin (Author, Narrator), Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd (Publisher)

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Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles, and mistranslations in international politics can be a few steps from serious trouble.

But translation is also a way of entering new and exciting worlds, and forging links that never before existed.

Linda Jaivin has been translating from Chinese for more than thirty years. While her specialty is subtitles, she has also translated song lyrics, poetry and fiction, and interpreted for ABC film crews, Chinese artists and even the English singer Billy Bragg as he gave his take on socialism to some Beijing rockers.

In Found in Translation, she reveals the work of the translator and considers whether different worldviews can be bridged. She pays special attention to China and the English-speaking West, Australia in particular, but also discusses French, Japanese and even the odd phrase of Maori. This is a free-ranging essay, personal and informed, about translation in its narrowest and broadest senses, and the prism - occasionally prison - of culture.

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Linda Jaivin
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Linda Jaivin
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1 December 2013
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English
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Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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B00NPBIQC0
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Listening Length	2 hours and 39 minutes
Author	Linda Jaivin
Narrator	Linda Jaivin
Audible.com.au Release Date	01 December 2013
Publisher	Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NPBIQC0
Best Sellers Rank	19,487 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 11 in Linguistics (Audible Books & Originals) 59 in Linguistics Reference 172 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences

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