Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposiu (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631500613)

The contributions to this volume focus on issues of identity and communication in Europe. A multiplicity of regions and nations are discussed with regard to their languages, literatures and cultures: Scotland, Wales, England, Northern Ireland, Brittany, Scandinavia, Slovenia, Poland and even Japan. Problems of translating and interpreting receive attention in papers ranging from the cultural specificity of rules of communication and the cultural status of source texts to text structures and prosodic transfer. What emerges from the volume as a whole is a sense of Europe searching for a precarious balance between centrifugal and centripetal forces, between regionalism and nationalism on the one hand and internationalism and cosmopolitanism on the other.

Author: Horst W. Drescher
ISBN-10: 3631500610
ISBN-13: 9783631500613
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1996
Pages: 277
Format: Paperback