About the authors
John Blenkinsopp is Reader in Management at Teesside University
Business School. His main research interests are in career development
and whistle-blowing and employee silence, though the underlying theme
of his research concerns how people make sense of work, and this has
led him to explore cross-cultural issues. The present paper was
inspired
by a translator‟s footnote in Primo Levi‟s
The Periodic Table
which drew
attention to two „untranslatable‟ puns.
He can be contacted at
john.blenkinsopp@tees.ac.uk
Maryam Shademan Pajouh is a part-time Lecturer in International
Business, and a full-time PhD student, both at Teesside University
Business School. Her research examines the impact of globalisation on
Iran, in particular its effect on leadership and management. The very
Iranian nature of
tarouf
, and its „untranslatability‟, was
a long-running
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conversation with her late uncle, Behrouz
Vahid Kasiri, to whose memory
this article is dedicated.
She can be contacted at
m.shademanpajouh@tees.ac.uk
.
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