Author: Ritta Oittine
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: children, culture, literature, translating
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0815333358
ISBN-13: 9780815333357

Translating for Children is not a book on translations of children’s literature but a book on translating for children. It is concentrating on human action in translation and focuses on the translator, the translation process, and translating for children, in particular. Translators never translate words in isolation but whole situations. They bring to the translation their cultural heritage, their reading experience, and in the case of children’s books, their image of childhood and their own child image. In so doing, they enter into a dialogic relationship that ultimately involves