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8 - Transnational Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes

A Relevance-Theoretic Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
Anne Furlong
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Furlong presents crime fiction writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes character. She uses Relevance Theory to examine how Holmes is adapted to Russian and Japanese culture, that is to say, what features of the original are being regarded as relevant both by the creator of an adaptation as well as by the audience, and what features the adaptations add to the source text and how these are related to the culture and sociopolitical situation in the receiving culture.

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Sherlock HolmesRelevance TheoryadaptationRussiacharacterisation
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 150 - 173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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