The notion of voice(s) has been used with different meanings in Translation Studies. As a metaphor it has been used to refer to various kinds of voice(s), such as those of authors, translators, interpreters, narrators, characters and even researchers, as in the name of the journal New Voices in Translation Studies. Furthermore, voice(s) has been used in a non-metaphorical sense referring to the physical voice(s) of interpreters, dubbing actors and singers and actors who perform translated songs or plays (Anderman 2007; see Drama translation; Music and translation; Voiceover and dubbing). Closely related and partially overlapping concepts include style (see Baker 2000, see also Stylistics and translation), (in)visibility, agency (see Agents of translation), “the translator in the text” (May 1994) and reported discourse (Folkart 1991). Some understandings of voice(s) in Translation Studies have clearly been inherited from other disciplines such as linguistics, comparative literature, anthropology and postcolonial studies.

References

Anderman, Gunilla

2007 “Voices in translation.” In Voices in Translation: Bridging Cultural Divides, Gunilla Anderman (ed.), 6–15. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.  TSB

Baker, Mona

2000 “Towards a methodology for investigating the style of a literary translator.” Target 12 (2): 241–266.  TSB

Brumme, Jenny

2012 Traducir la voz ficticia. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Folkart, Barbara

1991 Le conflit des énonciations: Traduction et discours rapporté. Montreal: Éditions Balzac.  TSB

Hermans, Theo

1996 “The translator’s voice in translated narrative.” Target 8 (1): 23–48.  TSB

Jansen, Hanne and Wegener, Anna

(eds) Forthcoming Authorial and Editorial Voices in Translation Montreal Éditions québécoises de l’oeuvre

May, Rachel

1994 The Translator in the Text. On Reading Russian Literature in English. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.  TSB

Munday, Jeremy

2008 Style and Ideology in Translation. Latin American Writing in English. New York/ London: Routledge.  BoP

Schiavi, Giuliana

1996 “There is always a teller in a tale.” Target 8 (1): 1–21.  TSB

Taivalkoski-Shilov, Kristiina & Suchet, Myriam

2013 “Introduction: Voice in the field of ­Translation Studies/De questionnement en questionnement.” In La Traduction des voix intra-textuelles/Intratextual Voices in Translation, Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov & Myriam Suchet (eds), 1–31. Montreal: Éditions québécoises de l’oeuvre.

Further reading

Clas, André

(ed.) 1993 Le je du traducteur. The I of the Translator. Special issue of Meta 38 (4).

Hermans, Theo

2010 “The translator as evaluator.” In Text and Context: Essays on Translation & Interpreting in Honour of Ian Mason, Mona Baker, Maeve Olohan & María Calzada Pérez (eds), 63–76. Manchester: St. Jerome.  TSB

Mossop, Brian

2007 “The translator’s intervention through voice selection.” In Translation as Intervention, Jeremy Munday (ed), 18–37. London: Continuum.  TSB

Scott, Clive

2012 Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology. ­London: Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association & Maney Publishing.  TSB

Torikai, Kumiko

2009 Voices of the Invisible Presence. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.  BoP