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Resumen: Apart from referring to a geographical or physical border, the notion of frontera has also become a metaphorical or psychological construct which represents any situation of contrast, such as belonging to two different national, cultural or linguistic communities. Latino writers in the United States live and write on the frontera. The coming together of two cultures forges a new hybrid identity which fights against essentialism and homogenization. This hybrid identity is reflected in these writers' language, a border tongue constantly switching from English to Spanish. Sandra Cisneros is one of those Latina writers who resort to code-switching as an identity hallmark. By introducing Spanish words, phrases or syntactic constructions into her English texts, Cisneros tries to evoke the feeling of inhabiting two worlds which can be conflicting and complementary at the same time. Departing from the notion of frontera, several translations of Cisneros's works are analysed, paying special attention to those aspects related to identity and language. Particularly, I focus on the Mexican Spanish, Galician and Catalan versions of The House on Mango Street, the translation of Woman Hollering Creek into Mexican Spanish, the Catalan versions of several short stories from Woman Hollering Creek and the Galician translation of Loose Woman. In all the analysed versions, the translators use strategies which reflect the border identity present in the source text, such as the resource to code-switching and typographical markers or the use of calques and other borrowings, dialectalisms, and non-standard vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar.

Resumen: Esta obra abarca la totalidad de la experiencia humana, de películas extranjeras a filosofía, para demostrar por qué la traducción está en el centro de lo que hacemos y de quién somos. Entre muchas otras cosas, David Bellos se pregunta: ¿Qué diferencia hay entre traducir unas palabras coloquiales espontáneas y traducir Madame Bovary? ¿Cómo se traduce un chiste? ¿Qué diferencia hay entre una lengua materna y una aprendida? ¿Puede traducirse entre dos lenguas cualesquiera o sólo entre algunas? ¿Qué es lo que sucede en realidad cuando los líderes mundiales hablan en la ONU? ¿Pueden las máquinas llegar a sustituir a los traductores humanos, y, si no, por qué no? La pregunta más importante que se plantea es la siguiente: ¿cómo sabemos con certeza que hemos comprendido lo que dicen los demás, en nuestro idioma o en cualquier otro? Sorprendente, ingenioso y escrito con gran joie de vivre, este libro trata de nosotros y de cómo nos entendemos.

Resumen: Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says-in our own language or in another? This book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.