Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting

Editors

Anthony Pym | Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Miriam Shlesinger † | Bar-Ilan University

Zuzana Jettmarová | Charles University

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Translation Studies has recently been searching for connections with Cultural Studies and Sociology. This volume brings together a range of ways in which the disciplines can be related, particularly with respect to research methodologies. The key aspects covered are the agents behind translation, the social histories revealed by translations, the perceived roles and values of translators in social contexts, the hidden power relations structuring publication contexts, and the need to review basic concepts of the way social and cultural systems work. Special importance is placed on Community Interpreting as a field of social complexity, the lessons of which can be applied in many other areas. The volume studies translators and interpreters working in a wide range of contexts, ranging from censorship in East Germany to English translations in Gujarat. Major contributions are made by Agnès Whitfield, Daniel Gagnon, Franz Pöchhacker, Michaela Wolf, Pekka Kujamäki and Rita Kothari, with an extensive introduction on methodology by Anthony Pym.

[Benjamins Translation Library, 67] 2006. viii, 255 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.67

Table of Contents

Foreword | p. vii

Introduction: On the social and cultural in translation studies

Anthony Pym | pp. 1–25

Agents behind translation

Trends in the translation of a minority language: The case of Dutch

Stella Linn | pp. 27–39

“Of course Germans have a certain interest in Finland, but…”: Openness to Finnish literature in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s

Pekka Kujamäki | pp. 41–52

Translation from the point of view of the East German censorship files

Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth | pp. 53–64

Social histories

Choosing not to translate: Zero translations in the first Portuguese Robinson Crusoe

Maria Goreti Monteiro | pp. 65–72

From Robinson Crusoe to Robinson in Wallachia: The intricacies of the reception process

Rodica Dimitriu | pp. 73–82

Perceived roles and values

Translating from across the channel in nineteenth-century France: Philarète Chasles, Thackeray and Jules Janin

Gabriel Louis Moyal | pp. 83–91

English translation in Gujarat: Emerging consensus

Rita Kothari | pp. 93–99

Interaction of inner and outer contexts

Between Translation and Traduction: The many paradoxes of Deux Solitudes

Agnes Whitfield | pp. 101–116

Bilingual translation/writing as intercultural communication

Daniel Gagnon | pp. 117–127

Power relations disclosed

The female state of the art: Women in the “translation field”

Michaela Wolf | pp. 129–141

Translation as discursive import: Changes in the transfer of proper nouns in Latvian

Ieva Zauberga | pp. 143–150

Power distribution and cooperation

“Translation culture” in interpreted asylum hearings

Sonja Pöllabauer | pp. 151–162

Interpreting at an immigration detention center in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Communication and power

Guillermo R. Navarro Montesdeoca | pp. 163–171

Negotiating linguistic and cultural identities in interpreter-mediated communication for public health services

Mette Rudvin | pp. 173–190

Constructing systems

Babel rebuilt: A survey of social welfare institutions and interpreting and translation services in Flanders

Katrien Lannoy and Jan Van Gucht | pp. 191–200

From 10-minute wedding ceremonies to three-week spa treatment programs: Reconstructing the system of sign language interpreting in Styria

Nadja Grbić | pp. 201–214

The view from Interpreting Studies

“Going social?” On pathways and paradigms in interpreting studies

Franz Pöchhacker | pp. 215–232

Notes on contributors | pp. 233–236

Index | pp. 253–255

“ Sociocultural Aspects offers a valuable insight into trends in translation and interpreting studies, in particular by emphasising community interpreting and therefore indicating that IS is nowadays in many respects at the forefront of translatological research. With its fine range of informative and argumentative articles, Sociocultural Aspects is a versatile and useful collection that provides provocative and interesting reading.”

Nike K. Pokorn, Ljubljana, in Target Vol. 21:2 (2009)

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Subjects

Sociology

Translation & Interpreting Studies

Interpreting

Translation Studies

Main BIC Subject

CFP: Translation & interpretation

Main BISAC Subject

LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting

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ONIX 2.1

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