Translation and Globalization

Michael Cronin is Dean of the Joint Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. His publications include Across the Lines:Travel, Language, Translation (2000), winner of the CATS Vinay Darbelnet Prize 2001.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Translation and the global economy; Chapter 2 Globalization and new translation paradigms; Chapter 3 Globalization and the new geography of translation; Chapter 4 Globalization and the new politics of translation; Chapter 5 Translation and minority languages in a global setting;

'This is a virtuoso performance ... [it] should be read by anyone who wants to understand the basic positions in current global debates about languages and power relations.' - Studies in Travel Writing'Michael Cronin's Translation and Globalization is quite simply the most complete study on translation since George Steiner's After Babel (1975).' - The Irish Times'With this enormous range of examples, Translation and Globalization becomes a dazzling kaleidoscope that races through the modern world of translation but never forgets its historical roots.' - The Translator, Vol 10.' ... the book is a great, original, necessary and quite novel approach to translation studies from an economic, social, global and linguistic point of view.' - Linguist List