Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites
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Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites

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Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites

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About This Book

In any museum, gallery, or heritage site that wishes to engage with foreign-language visitors, translation is essential. Providing texts in foreign languages – whether for international visitors from different language cultures or for heritage speakers of local minority languages – is centrally important in enabling these visitors to make sense of what they see displayed. Yet despite this awareness, and a growing body of research in the field, there has hitherto been little available in the way of practical training in this area of translation. This book aims to help fill that need.

Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites focuses on the translation of interpretive and information texts, particularly in the museum context. After an initial introduction and an overview of key concepts in both museums and translation, it looks at three broad groupings of texts from the museum text system: fixed labels and wall panels, leaflets and other portable learning resources, and catalogues and guides, including a section on websites. It concludes with a call to place translation centre stage in museum, gallery, and heritage practice. The book will be of use as a coursebook for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and for practitioners in the sector, and is designed to be suitable for both individual and class-based learning.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781351333610
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Conceptual overview: Key issues and concepts in museum translation
  11. 3 Practitioner and professional perspectives
  12. 4 Translating for the exhibition space: Wall panels and object labels
  13. 5 Translating optional materials for added learning: Leaflets, worksheets, and audio guides
  14. 6 Translating texts beyond the museum: Museum catalogues, guides, and webpages
  15. 7 Translating cultures: Putting museum and heritage translation centre stage
  16. References
  17. Index