The Translator as Mediator of Cultures

Editors

Humphrey Tonkin | University of Hartford

Maria Esposito Frank | University of Hartford

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If it is bilingualism that transfers information and ideas from culture to culture, it is the translator who systematizes and generalizes this process. The translator serves as a mediator of cultures. In this collection of essays, based on a conference held at the University of Hartford, a group of individuals – professional translators, linguists, and literary scholars – exchange their views on translation and its power to influence literary traditions and to shape cultural and economic identities. The authors explore the implications of their views on the theory and craft of translation, both written and oral, in an era of unsettling globalizing forces.

[Studies in World Language Problems, 3] 2010. x, 201 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 August 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/wlp.3

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vii–x

Introduction. Between temples and templates: History’s claims on the translator

Probal Dasgupta | pp. 1–14

Part 1. Translation and reconciliation

1. Translation as reconciliation: A conversation about politics, translation, and multilingualism in South Africa

Antjie Krog, Rosalind Morris and Humphrey Tonkin | pp. 17–36

2. Interpreting at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): Linguistic and cultural challenges

Nancy Schweda Nicholson | pp. 37–52

3. Translating and interpreting sign language: Mediating the DEAF-WORLD

Timothy Reagan | pp. 53–72

4. Translators in a global community

Jonathan Pool | pp. 73–86

Part 2. Translation and negotiation

5. The treason of translation? Bilingualism, linguistic borders and identity

John Edwards | pp. 89–106

6. The poetics of experience: Toward a pragmatic understanding of experience, practice, and translation

Vincent Colapietro | pp. 107–124

Part 3. Translation and the interpretation of texts

7. Translation and the rediscovery of the multinational Central European

Thomas Cooper | pp. 127–138

8. Transcriação / Transcreation: The Brazilian concrete poets and translation

K. David Jackson | pp. 139–160

9. Expression and translation of philosophy: Giorgio Colli, a master of time

Marie-José Tramuta | pp. 161–168

10. The semantics of invention: Translation into Esperanto

Humphrey Tonkin | pp. 169–190

Contributors | pp. 191–194

Index | pp. 195–202

“The editors have compiled an interesting and worthwhile addition to the literature of translation theory with this collection containing a felicitous mix of theory and practice.”

Ian M. Richmond, in Language Problems and Language Planning, Vol. 35:3 (2011)

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