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Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 2 A Japanese Perspective

Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 2 A Japanese Perspective

These two groundbreaking volumes look at complex legal issues in the changing global economy from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. Contributors scrutinize the past present and future and discuss what the global legal order in economic fields could be like by navigating uncertain and turbulent times. The books address six main themes: (1) Polarization and diversification of values progress of regionalism and restructuring of multilateral rules (2) Full-scale arrival of the digital economy and its impact (3) Empowerment of private persons/entities (4) Reconsideration of the concept of “territorial jurisdiction” (5) Law of national security and rule in emergency situations and (6) Values of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in trade and investment liberalization rules. The books also examine various legal problems under the COVID-19 crisis and suggest how the post-COVID-19 global economic order will be from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. This comprehensive insight will shed light on the intertwined and complex phenomena of world economy and allow readers of business law and international law to have a better understanding of this volatile era. | Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 2 A Japanese Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 1 A Japanese Perspective

Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 1 A Japanese Perspective

These two groundbreaking volumes look at complex legal issues in the changing global economy from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. Contributors scrutinize the past present and future and discuss what the global legal order in economic fields could be like by navigating uncertain and turbulent times. The books address six main themes: (1) Polarization and diversification of values progress of regionalism and restructuring of multilateral rules (2) Full-scale arrival of the digital economy and its impact (3) Empowerment of private persons/entities (4) Reconsideration of the concept of “territorial jurisdiction” (5) Law of national security and rule in emergency situations and (6) Values of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in trade and investment liberalization rules. The book also examines various legal problems under the COVID-19 crisis and suggests how the post COVID-19 global economic order will be from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. This comprehensive insight will shed light on the intertwined and complex phenomena of the world economy and allow readers of business law and international law to have a better understanding of this volatile era. | Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 1 A Japanese Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 2 Aporias of Complexity in Power Politics and Methods in Education

Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 2 Aporias of Complexity in Power Politics and Methods in Education

The 21st century is steeped in claims to interconnection technological innovation and new affective intensities amid challenges to the primacy and centrality of the human. Flashpoint epistemology attends to the lived difficulties that arise in teaching policymaking curriculum and research among continuous practices of differentiation and for which there is no pre-existing template for judgment resolution or action. Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 2 brings creative sociopolitical research perspectives to flashpoints that emerge amid appeals to globalization synoptic policy approaches and new technologies – however defined. The chapters challenge prevailing notions of distance and difference comparative philosophy worlding practices and contact zones. In the remaking of subjects the unhoming of geopolitics and new approaches to relationality youth and classrooms complexities in preserving and questioning identity are laid bare and renovated. How technologies challenge and redefine racialization engendering and inter/nationalization are examined amid the reworking of oppression success well-being politics method and power. The volume will be beneficial for researchers seeking new approaches to education’s complexities nested discourses and ever-moving horizons of enactment. It is also a key text for post/graduate students and teachers interested in technological impact globality policymaking and new ways of conducting research in contexts of digitalization and social media. | Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 2 Aporias of Complexity in Power Politics and Methods in Education

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Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of the 19th-century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient medieval and modern numismatics and on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political cultural economic and social changes of the era this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century. This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th -century history and the history of coins. | Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

GBP 120.00
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Optimization in Industry Volume 1 Optimization Techniques

Optimization in Industry Volume 1 Optimization Techniques

As optimization techniques have developed a gap has arisen between the people devising the methods and the people who actually need to use them. Research into methods is necessarily long-term and located usually in academic establishments; whereas the application of an optimization technique normally in an industrial environment has to be justified financially in the short term. The gap is probably inevitable; but there is no need for textbooks to reflect it. Teaching of optimization techniques separately from their connection with applications is pointless. This book gives a detailed exposition of the techniques. In this first volume T. A. J. Nicholson demonstrates the full range of techniques available to the practitioner for the solution of varying problems. For each technique the background reasoning behind its development is explained in simple terms; where helpful it is supported by a geometrical argument; and the iterative algorithm for finding the optimum is defined clearly. These steps enable the reader not only to see plainly what is happening in the method but also to reach a level of understanding necessary to write computer programs for optimization techniques. Problems are tackled in the same way-by searching a feasible region for an optimum. This approach helps the reader to develop the most essential of all skills-selecting appropriate techniques for different circumstances. The numerous worked examples in the text supported by worked solutions and the exercises at the end of the chapters are important aids to learning and to teachers. This book serves as an introduction to optimization techniques for students as well as a reference work for the practitioner in business and industry. | Optimization in Industry Volume 1 Optimization Techniques

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Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

The two inter-linked volumes in this series are dedicated to the development of analysis and theorisation of learning and teaching in higher education. The two volumes focus on the multi-scalar ecological inter-connectedness of learners with teachers with artefacts with cultural patterns and resources with places with social activities and practices with social institutions with time and temporality and with technologies. Learning reflects inter-individual dynamics that are shaped by biology and culture. Against prevailing orthodoxies that view learning in higher education in terms of information transmission and content delivery the contributors articulate leading developments in distributed cognition distributed language ecological psychology enactivist and embodied-embedded cognitive science interactivity and multimodal event analysis. They also extend several earlier traditions such as American pragmatism embodied curriculum theory and Vygotsky's latter day anti-dualist Spinozan turn. Through detailed empirical analysis of in vivo episodes of learning using multimodal event analysis cognitive event analysis and cutting-edge theory the authors show how and why learning is not adequately explainable as internal mental processes per se. Instead sophisticated empirical analysis and innovative theory are put to work to reveal the emergence of learning in the interactivity of learners and teachers with the affordances of a distributed brain-body-environment learning system. Volume 1 is an edited collection of seven chapters written by internationally renowned researchers together with an Introduction and an Afterword written by King and Thibault. Volume 1 (and its successor Volume 2) will serve as valuable reading for educationalists and researchers in the cognitive communication learning and language sciences who are looking for new multidimensional tools for thinking about and new empirical tools for analysing learning and teaching as multi-scalar interactive processes in radical embodied ecologies of learning and teaching. | Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

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Institutions and Individuals The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 2

Institutions and Individuals The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 2

This second part of the 2 volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century institutions and individuals presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of 19th century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient medieval modern as well as on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political cultural economic and social changes of the era this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century. This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th century history and the history of coins. | Institutions and Individuals The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 2

GBP 120.00
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The Condition of Democracy Volumes 1 2 3

The Condition of Democracy Volumes 1 2 3

Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a normative term and as a form of governance. Against the background of neoliberal transformation populist mobilization and xenophobic exclusion but also of radical and emancipatory democratic projects this collection offers a variety of critical and challenging perspectives on the condition of democracy in the 21st Century. The volumes provide theoretical and empirical enquiries into the meaning and practice of liberal democracy the erosion of democratic institutions and the consequences for citizenship and everyday lives. With a pronounced focus on national and transnational politics and processes as well as postcolonial and settler-colonial contexts individual contributions scrutinize the role of democratic societies ideals and ideologies of liberal democracy within global power geometries. By employing the multiple meanings of The Condition of Democracy the collection addresses the preconditions of democratic rule the state this form of governance is in and the changing ways in which citizens can (still) act as the sovereign in liberal democratic societies. The books offer both challenging theoretical perspectives and rigorous empirical findings of how to conceive of democracy in our times which will appeal to academics and students in social and political science economics and international relations amongst other fields. The focus on developments in the Middle East and North Africa will furthermore be of great usefulness to academics and the wider public interested in the repercussions of western democracy promotion as well as in contemporary struggles for democratization ‘from below’. | The Condition of Democracy Volumes 1 2 3

GBP 115.00
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The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small backward mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse a hub of innovation a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impoverished emigrants should be transformed into one of the world’s major financial centres – these astonishing developments among many others are explored and explained both through the specific stories of individual innovators and through a prescient analysis of the political economic societal and cultural structures that formed the context in which Switzerland’s astonishing transformation took place. The book is a compelling read both for professional historians and for general readers with an interest in Switzerland; it highlights the roles of transport networks and individual pioneers in industrial and political development. | The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

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Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy

Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy

This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains problems and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality and our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters in this volume extend experimental work on morality to previously underexplored areas. The contributions in Part 1 explore the methods and foundations of experimental work in areas such as folk moral judgments metaethical beliefs moral explanations and reflective equilibrium. Part 2 focuses on issues in normative ethics and legal and political philosophy such as virtue ethics utilitarianism theories of justice and criminal responsibility. Finally the chapters in Part 3 tackle various applied ethical issues including feminist X-Phi animal welfare experimental bioethics and self-driving cars. Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics applied ethics experimental philosophy social and political philosophy and philosophy of law. Chapter 1 and 15 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. taylorfrancis. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

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The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world’s first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium. The initial 11 chapters of Genesis are often considered discordant and fragmentary despite being a story of beginnings within the context of the Bible. Readers discover how these formative chapters cohere as a cross-generational account of peoples grappling with the hegemonic spread of domesticated grain production and the concomitant rise of the pristine states of Mesopotamia. The book reveals how key episodes from the Genesis narrative reflect major societal revolutions of the Neolithic period in Mesopotamia through a three-fold hermeneutical method: literary analysis of the Bible and contemporary cuneiform texts; modern scholarship from archaeological anthropological ecological and historical sources; and relevant exegesis from the Second Temple and rabbinical era. These three strands entwine to recount a generally sequential story of the earliest archaic states as narrated by non-elites at the margins of these emerging state spaces. The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1–11 provides a fascinating reading of the first 11 chapters of Genesis appealing to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Near East as well as those working on ecological injustice from a religious vantage point. | The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

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Crosscultural Transgressions Research Models in Translation: v. 2: Historical and Ideological Issues

Crosscultural Transgressions Research Models in Translation: v. 2: Historical and Ideological Issues

Ideology has become increasingly central to work in translation studies. To date however most studies have focused on literary and religious texts thus limiting wider understanding of how ideological clashes and encounters pervade any context where power inequalities are present. This special edition of The Translator deliberately focuses on ideology in the translation of a rich variety of lesser-studied genres namely academic writing cultural journals legal and scientific texts political interviews advertisements language policy and European Parliament discourse in all of which translation as a social practice can be seen to shape maintain and at times also resist and challenge the asymmetrical nature of exchanges between parties engaged in or subjected to hegemonic practices. The volume opens with two ground-breaking papers that investigate the nature and representation of truth and knowledge in the translation of the sciences followed by two contributions which approach the issue of shifts in the translation of ideology from the standpoint of critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis using data from political speeches and interviews and from English and Korean versions of Newsweek. Other contributions discuss the role that translation scholars can play in raising public awareness of the manipulative devices used in advertising; the way in which potentially competing institutional and individual ideologies are negotiated in the context of interpreting in the European Union; the role translation plays in shaping the politics of a multilingual nation state with reference to Belgium; and the extent to which the concepts of norms and polysystems may be productive in investigating the link between translation and ideology with reference to Chinese data. | Crosscultural Transgressions Research Models in Translation: v. 2: Historical and Ideological Issues

GBP 175.00
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Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 2)

Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 2)

This comparative transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights integration and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have evolved differently in France and the United States reinforcing their separate national identities. Yet there are parallels to their Jewish history and in how the security of Jews has repeatedly defined and tested the national interests of France and the United States in world affairs. Drawing on the author’s personal experience as an international civil servant these volumes explore topics such as tensions and common interests between France and the United States the memory of the Shoah social mobility the tepid commitment of the United States to the rights of French Jews during World War II trends in antisemitism and tolerance and global climate change as a threat to largely coastal Jewish communities. They highlight what makes insecurity different in the 21st century and why a paradigm shift in policy is needed. This title is intended both for a general audience and advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in Jewish history urban history and international relations. | Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 2)

GBP 130.00
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Administration in India Challenges and Innovations

Administration in India Challenges and Innovations

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the administration in India from independence to date. It examines the major transformation in the administrative service initiated by the ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’ initiative of the Government of India in 2014. In spite of enormous diversity and population India has made remarkable progress in various fields such as health education infrastructure and technology. Structured in three parts (1) social sector (2) infrastructure and economy and (3) e-governance and service delivery the book examines challenges of governance and provides insight into different innovations undertaken to address these challenges. E-governance lies at the core of this transformation of accountability transparency and time-bound service delivery. Contributions in this book are written by experts working in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) academia and the private sector and cover a wide spectrum of administration from the point of view of different departments of government as well as the experiences of the authors ranging from senior bureaucrats to mid-career officers and analyses of researchers on administration and its challenges. The initiatives covered in this book can serve as solutions to similar challenges faced by other developing countries in the world. The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of administration and policy civil service public management South Asian politics and Development Studies. | Administration in India Challenges and Innovations

GBP 130.00
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Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 1)

Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 1)

This comparative transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights integration and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have evolved differently in France and the United States reinforcing their separate national identities. Yet there are parallels to their Jewish history and in how the security of Jews has repeatedly defined and tested the national interests of France and the United States in world affairs. Drawing on the author’s personal experience as an international civil servant these volumes explore topics such as tensions and common interests between France and the United States the memory of the Shoah social mobility the tepid commitment of the United States to the rights of French Jews during World War II trends in antisemitism and tolerance and global climate change as a threat to largely coastal Jewish communities. They highlight what makes insecurity different in the 21st century and why a paradigm shift in policy is needed. This title is intended both for a general audience and advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in Jewish history urban history and international relations. | Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 1)

GBP 130.00
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Infodemic in the Era of Post-Truth

Infodemic in the Era of Post-Truth

With the revolution in information technology concerns about the proliferation of false unverified and misleading information have been growing. As one of the severe public health crises in modern history the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a novel context for the post-truth research. In a post-truth era people are no longer interested in investigating objective facts but tend to curl up in echo chambers and resonate with like-minded others. Against this backdrop this book (1) systematically conceptualises post-truth and analyzes its defining characteristics and driving forces (2) examines the nuanced effects of information sources and news consumption behaviours and strategies on COVID-19 misperceptions and knowledge (3) explores the role of social media in shaping COVID-19-related misperceptions and knowledge and (4) highlights the importance of news media literacy in navigating the post-truth era. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars of media and film studies communication studies and comparative studies. It will also be a useful reference for medical and media professionals such as doctors nurses and journalists. | Infodemic in the Era of Post-Truth

GBP 130.00
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Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

Race in Sweden is an introduction to and a critical investigation of the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness with any kind of race talk being taboo in public discourse and everyday language use and in practice forbidden in official and institutional language. A study of a country which was until recently strikingly white but has become extremely diverse yet where the legacy of Swedish whiteness co-exists with a radical colourblind antiracist ideology Race in Sweden will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race and ethnicity whiteness and Nordic studies. Chapters 2 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

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Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato’s famous account of the origins of the universe mortal life and evil containing equal parts science theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato’s Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato’s philosophy and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods including Yahweh who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato’s Critias the sequel to Timaeus in the stories about the Garden of Eden the intermarriage of the sons of God and the daughters of men and the biblical flood. This book confirms the late date and Hellenistic background of Genesis 1-11 drawing on Plato’s writings and other Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria. This study provides a fascinating approach to Genesis that will interest students and scholars in both biblical and classical studies philosophy and creation narratives. | Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History

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Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace

Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace

This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace. Over the past three decades cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in cyberspace has been produced along somewhat rigid disciplinary boundaries and an even more rigid sociotechnical divide – wherein technical and social scholarship are seldomly brought into a conversation. This is the first volume to address these themes through a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary approach. With the intent of exploring the question ‘what is at stake with the use of automation in international conflict in cyberspace through AI?’ the chapters in the volume focus on three broad themes namely: (1) technical and operational (2) strategic and geopolitical and (3) normative and legal. These also constitute the three parts in which the chapters of this volume are organised although these thematic sections should not be considered as an analytical or a disciplinary demarcation. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-conflict AI security studies and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace

GBP 130.00
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Key Debates in the Translation of Advertising Material Special Issue of the Translator (Volume 10/2 2004)

Key Debates in the Translation of Advertising Material Special Issue of the Translator (Volume 10/2 2004)

Much has been written about the marketing aspects of promotional material in general and several scholars (particularly in linguistics) have addressed questions relating to the structure and function of advertisements focusing on images rhetorical structure semiotic functions discourse features and audio-visual media amongst other aspects of the genre. Not much on the other hand has been written within translation studies about the complexities involved in the transfer of an advertising message. Contributors to this volume explore various interdependent aspects of the interlingual and intercultural transfer of an advertising message. They emphasize features of culture specificity of multi-medial semiotic interaction of values and stereotypes and most importantly they recommend strategies and approaches to assist translators. Topics covered include a critique of the Western-based approach to advertising in the context of the Far East; different perceptions of the concept of cleanliness in advertising texts in Italy Russia and the UK; the Walls Cornetto strategy of internationalization of product appeal followed by localization; the role of the translator in recreating appeal in different lingua-cultural contexts; what constitutes 'Italianness' in advertisements for British consumers; and strategies for repackaging France as a tourist destination. | Key Debates in the Translation of Advertising Material Special Issue of the Translator (Volume 10/2 2004)

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