Some Status Issues in the Translation of Children's Books

• Autores: Viv Edwards, Sue Walker
• Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 17, Nº. 5, 1996, págs. 339-348
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Changing populations in many parts of Europe and the English-speaking world have given rise to multilingual classrooms, new pedagogies and new learning materials. This paper discusses multilingual resources for children- books in languages other than English as well as dual language books written in both community (or heritage) languages and English. The main emphasis, however, is on dual language books and the challenges which these present for translators. The insensitivity of publishers to the complexities of multilingual resources has often resulted in inadequate translations which greatly diminish the usefulness of dual language books. Various ways of improving the quality of translation are considered.