Daniel Linder

List of John Benjamins publications in which Daniel Linder is involved.

Articles

Linder, Daniel 2014 Getting away with murder: The Maltese Falcon’s specialized homosexual slang gunned down in translation Target 26:3, pp. 337–360 | Article

In The Maltese Falcon (1929/1930), U.S. hard-boiled author Dashiell Hammett used common colloquial terms (queer and fairy) and specialized slang terms (gunsel, the gooseberry lay) to include homosexual characters at a time when pulp magazines and mainstream publishers frowned on diverse sexualities. read more

Linder, Daniel 2001 Translating Irony in Popular Fiction: Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep Babel 47:2, pp. 97–108 | Article

Raymond Chandler published his first novel, The Big Sleep, in 1939. There are two Spanish translations of the novel, both titled El sueño eterno, one published in 1958 by Aguilar (Madrid) and the other in 1972 by Barral (Barcelona). This study analyzes irony in the two Spanish translations and… read more