Translation and Multilingualism

This article brings together perspectives from world literature and translation studies to compare the international reception of two ‘glocal’ literary cases: Andrea Camilleri’s Montalbano books, and Elena Ferrante’s tetralogy L’amica geniale. The national and international success of these series raises important questions for scholars of translation studies, multilingualism, world literature and literary markets, and sheds light on the significance of different kinds of multilingualism in fiction and of their treatment in translation. The article addresses the following questions: how do monolingual book markets contain and discipline multilingual fiction? What happens when multilingual fiction travels through translation? How do we explain the present openness of the Anglo-American market to translated fiction with an emphasis on the vernacular? The author argues that while both Camilleri and Ferrante foreground cultural difference and linguistic incommensurability, the way in which they portray the experience of diglossia had an important impact in determining their national and international success as well as the route through which they achieved international visibility.

Frederika Randall is a literary translator from the Italian. In this interview, the main issues addressed are the effect of the internationalization of the book market on the world wide circulation of Italian fiction; the ethics and responsibility of the translator of Italian classics into American English and the challenges entailed in translating irony.

This collection of essays tackles the issues that arise when multilingualism meets translation and discusses the findings with a particular focus on Slavonic migrant languages. Despite its high relevance from both the theoretical and the applied perspective, the intersection of multilingualism and translation has been rather neglected in international research on multilingualism. This volume intends to create a new angle within this wide field of research and to systematize the most relevant approaches and ideas on this topic in international Slavonic studies.

Edited by Vladislava Warditz & Beatrix Kreß. With contributions by Galina Denisova, Liana Goletiani, Christof Heinz, Katrin Bente Karl, Alla V. Kirillina, Peter Kosta, Larisa Naiditch, Ekaterina Protassova, Julia Ekman, Svetlana Kirichenko, Kira Sadoja, Dennis Scheller-Boltz, Vladislava Warditz & Malgorzata Tempel

Since I have known that Indonesia is one of the success examples of democratic nation, I’m interested to arrange my master thesis of M.Hum about the quality of English and Arabic UUD 45 TTs to help promoting the constitution to the world. This paper is presented in front of my class to solve some of my problems that are hanging out in the air. There are six problematic questions that I have tried to answer. Some of them are integrated to the other. First and second answer is that MTC attempts to encounter the phenomenon that is described by House & Rehbein (2004: 41) as multilingual communication mediated by translation. Third, fourth, and fifth answer is that grade quality written by number and letter and its meaning is based on Machali’s book (2009: 156-157). The sixth answer is that explaining the factors that influence the given value.

The role of the translator is not really distinct from that of the communicator in any typical intercultural communication/verbal exchange encounter. In both cases, the translator and the communicator are called upon to deliver what is intended in the written or spoken language code. That being said, the task on which they are both required to focus is the same or similar, as it assumes that each possesses a high level of competence in two linguistic and cultural systems in order to accomplish the very task they are called upon to perform.

Therefore, this paper aims to highlight the family resemblance or interconnectedness between the process of translation and that of the intercultural communication encounter ; and to emphasize the merits and benefits of treating translation as an act of intercultural or interlingual communication since the constraints faced by the translator are quite similar to those faced by the communicator.