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Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process ResearchEdited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien
[Target 25:1] 2013
► pp. 125–139
Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien
[Target 25:1] 2013
► pp. 125–139
The role of archival and manuscript research in the investigation of translator decision-making
This paper discusses the application of research methodologies from history and literary studies to the analysis of the translation process. Specifically, this concerns the use of literary archive and manuscript material to investigate the various stages in the construction of the translation product. Such material has been drastically underexploited in translation studies to date. The paper describes the type of material available for researchers and how this has been used. This is followed by a case study involving the detailed textual analysis of a translator’s drafts and revisions. The paper considers the value of such research methods in investigating the translation process and how they might complement and interact with other methodologies.
Keywords: descriptive translation studies, draft translations, literary manuscripts, publishers archives, research methodology, translator papers, translation process, translation product
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Archive, manuscripts and personal papers
- 2.1Archives, manuscripts and papers in translation studies research
- 3.Case study—drafts of Bellos’s retranslation of Perec’s Les choses
- 4.Questions of research methodology
- Notes
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