E.M. Forster’s A room with a view: cultural and linguistic elements in the novel’s afterlives.

This contribution is an attempt to combine, in what can be considered the ideal site of E.M. Forster’s novel A Room with a View (1908/2000), two different research approaches, one focused on interlinguistic translation and another one which takes into account the translation into images and paralinguistic elements of the words of the source text. The objective, and in this sense the interlinguistic and intersemiotic dimensions are both at play, is to follow some linguistic and cultural aspects of the respective novels, namely regional and social varieties of English and culture specific elements, in their translation from the page of the novelist to the words and images of the screen and in the successive translation of the verbal component into Italian, both of the novels and of the film versions.