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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 159–164

Museums and translation

| Hong Kong Baptist University
Article outline
  • 1.Translation and the exhibition space: Representation and contact
  • 2.Interlingual translation: Intertextual and intersemiotic issues
  • 3.Addressing different visitors
  • 4.Future directions
  • References
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.mus2
References
Bennett, Tony
2006 “Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture.” In Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations, ed. by Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, 46–69. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Deane-Cox, Sharon
2014 “Remembering Oradour-sur-Glane: Collective Memory in Translation.” Translation and Literature 23: 272–83. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Deganutti, Marianna, Nina Parish, and Eleanor Rowley
2018 “Representing Multilingual Difficult History: Voices of the First World War in the Kobarid Museum (Slovenia) and the Historial de la Grande Guerre (France).” Journal of Specialised Translation 29: 63–80.Google Scholar
Guillot, Marie-Noëlle
2014 “Cross-cultural Pragmatics and Translation: The Case of Museum Texts as Interlingual Representation.” In Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach, ed. by Juliane House, 73–95. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean
2000 Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Jiang, Chengzhi
2012 “Visual Pragmatic Effects of Distance Representation in Bilingual Museum Catalogue Entries of Chinese Landscape Paintings.” Journal of Pragmatics 44 (12): 1639–1660. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
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2015 “One Photo, Two Stories: Chinese Photos in British Museums.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 1 (2): 177–191. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Neather, Robert
2008 “Translating Tea: On the Semiotics of Interlingual Practice in the Hong Kong Museum of Tea Ware.” Meta: Translators’ Journal 53 (1): 218–240. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
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Further essential reading

Bennett, Tony
2018 Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean
1992 Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. London: Routledge. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Liao, Min-Hsiu
2018 “Museums and Creative Industries: The Contribution of Translation Studies.” Journal of Specialised Translation 29: 45–62.Google Scholar
Neather, Robert
2018 “Museums, Material Culture, and Cultural Representations.” In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture, ed. by Sue-Ann Harding and Ovidi Carbonell Cortés, 361–378. London: Routledge. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Silverman, Raymond A.
(ed.) 2015 Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges. London: Routledge.Google Scholar