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Im/Politeness and Translated Drama

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Understanding Im/politeness Through Translation

Part of the book series: Advances in (Im)politeness Studies ((AIMS))

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The chapter first addresses issues specific to communication on stage, accounting for the presence of the translator in the context of reception. It then considers authorial intention in some plays of Pinter translated into Greek and shows how genre (in particular sub-genre) may affect rendition of im/politeness on stage, namely, relative to the type of sub-genre in translation.

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Sidiropoulou, M. (2021). Im/Politeness and Translated Drama. In: Understanding Im/politeness Through Translation. Advances in (Im)politeness Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63530-5_5

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