This mainly semiotic miscellany contains 36 essays on a wide variety of topics. The main idea is that the notion of translation can be used in many other senses besides its basic one. Most of the contributers work within a semiotic framework, and several essays look at what “translation” might mean in other fields. There is almost no linguistics; there are very few textual examples (of these, most are literary texts) or reports of empirical research. Most of the essays are fairly short exercises in conceptual analysis. They tend to consider translation as something, or something as translation.

References

Bassnett, Susan André Lefevere

eds. 1998 Constructing cultures: Essays on literary translation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Robinson, Douglas

1977 Becoming a translator. London: Routledge.