Sociocultural aspects of translating and interpreting / edited by Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger, Zuzana Jettmarova.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on Translation and Interpreting, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Pym, Anthony, 1956-

Shlesinger, Miriam, 1947-2012.

Jettmarová, Zuzana.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Translation and Interpreting (10th : 2003 : Prague, Czech Republic)

International Conference on Translation and Interpreting.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 67.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects--Congresses.

Translating and interpreting.

Translators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword

introduction

On the social and the cultural in translation studies

A focus on mediators rather than translations

Observation and explanation

Symmetrical and asymmetrical correlations

Cultural or social?

Cultural and social?

Learning from Interpreting Studies

New dimensions for cultural sociologies?

Notes

Trends in the translation of a minority language

The case of Dutch

Introduction

Translations from Dutch into Spanish 1950-2000

The rise of theological works

The popularity of children's literature

The activities of public institutions

Publishers' policies

The role of individual translators as cultural intermediaries

Conclusion

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

The correspondence of Johannes and Rita Öhquist

The door is open

Novels of excitement for the German Volk

Literature for the "new Germany"

By way of conclusion

Appendix

Letters from (‡) and to ( ) Rita Öhquist

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

Application form - cover sheet

Application form - contents

Progressive liberalization?

Censorship and success

Note

Annex

Choosing not to translate

Zero translations in the first Portuguese Robinson Crusoe

From Robinson Crusoe to Robinson in Wallachia

The intricacies of the reception process

Robinson Crusoe, a book for education and entertainment

Robinson Crusoe, a complex novel

The Communist Robinson

Robinson in Wallachia

Translating from across the channel in nineteenth-century France.

Philarète Chasles, Thackeray and Jules Janin

Philarète Chasles: freedom of/and translation

Janin, Thackeray and the business of translation

English translation in Gujarat

Emerging consensus

Translation to and from Gujarati

English in Gujarat

Official policy

The literati's perception of translation into English

Consensus in educational institutions

Conclusions: consensus for translation, and beyond

Between Translation and Traduction

The Many Paradoxes of Deux Solitudes

Deux Solitudes and the vicissitudes of translation

The Francophone reception

The original as translation

Two Solitudes: problematic portrayal of Francophone culture

The translation as "original"

Bilingual translation/writing as intercultural communication

Expatriate or exiled writers

The plurilingual text

Bilingual translation/writing

Plainsong and The Marriageable Daughter in context

Comparing Texts

The female state of the art

Women in the "translation field"

Theory and practice in feminist translation

Gender questions in editorial policies

A heuristic approach to Pierre Bourdieu

Women in the literary "translation field"

Translation as discursive import

Changes in the transfer of proper nouns in Latvian

Linguistic prescriptivism

Traditional transcription and its limitations

Actual translation practice

Conclusions

On the translator's agency

On discursive import and its impact

On Globalization

"Translation culture" in interpreted asylum hearings

"Translation culture" as a concept

Cooperation between officers and interpreters

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 2

Loyalty to the other interaction partners

Excerpt 3

Excerpt 4.

Excerpt 5

Transparency of the interaction situation

Excerpt 6

Concluding remarks

Interpreting at an immigration detention center in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Communication and power

Modeling the Context

Immigration: out of Africa

Interpreting: no-state's land

The communication process: money, power and lies

Conclusion: thoughts about signs

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

A few working premises

Levels of communication

The communication process

Negotiating identities

Interpreters' negotiating strategies

Negotiating identities in a triadic relationship, an example from the mental health setting

Conclusions: Creating shared meaning?

The interface of role and identity

Babel rebuilt

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

Method

Results and observations

Provider survey

User survey

Recommendations

The best of both worlds

A three-tier structure

A regional support structure

A social rate policy

In conclusion

From 10-minute wedding ceremonies to three-week spa treatment programs

Reconstructing the system of sign language interpreting in Styria

Background

Theoretical framework - norms and systems

The study - goal, method and informants

The study - results

Assignments and interpreting jobs

Booking of interpreters

Preparation

Clients

Actual interpreting jobs

Individual assessment

"Going Social?" On pathways and paradigms in interpreting studies

Ways of seeing

Definitions and terms

Memes of interpreting

Modeling dimensions

Paradigms in interpreting studies

The "paradigm" meme

From IT to DI.

(R)evolution?

A social turn?

Notes on contributors

References

Index

adaptations 75

afterwords (in East German literature) 61

agency, of translators 148

asylum hearings/ interviews 22, 151-154, 159- 161

Balzac, Honoré de 88

Basque 31

Berman, Antoine 102

bilingual writing 117ff.

book production statistics 27-34

Bourdieu, Pierre 15, 134ff.

Carrasquer, Francisco 35-37

Catalan 31

causation 4-5

censorship 12, 14

Chasles, Philarète 85ff.

Chesterman, Andrew, on explanations 4

children's literature 31, 32, 38

class, social 12, 134

clients 3, 133, 136, 137, 177, 179, 186, 188, 199, 204, 208- 211

codes of ethics 159, 161, 174, 182, 184, 189, 190

Comarnescu, Petru 77-81

communication: nonverbal 155, 161, 173, 183-186, 221

community interpreting 3, 20, 158, 198, 206

Comparative Literature 9

complexity, in explanation 11-12

conditioning, as weak causation 12

constructivism 20

cooperation: consensus in Gujarat 13, 17, 98-99

co-production 57

copyright, fees 56

core-periphery model 28, 35

correlations, symmetrical/ asymmetrical 10 ff.

Cultural Studies 2, 14, 16, 19

culture: cultural vs. social factors 14ff.

Descriptive Translation Studies 2-3, 27, 83, 226

discourse: community 174, level 183, mode 174, 177

Dutch 27-39, poetry in 37

Dutch-Spanish translation 6, 27-39

Eco, Umberto (on signs) 168-169

economic conditions 43, 44

etic vs. emic 176, 178

evaluation, external 54, 60, 61

Even-Zohar, Itamar 2, 32, 38

expatriate writers 117-119

explanations 4-5

extra-linguistic factors 38, 169

Fairclough, Norman 173

feminism 11, 15, 129ff., 139

field, in Bourdieu 25, 134-135

Finnish language and literature 41-52

forms of address 77, 153, 186, 187

Fowler, Roger 168, 171

Frankfurt Book Fair 29, 33.

French 83-91, 101-127

French-English translations 85ff.

Gagnon, Daniel 126ff.

Galanti, Gerri-Ann 176, 178, 184, 185

Galician 31

gatekeepers 42

German 41-64

globalization 18, 19

Grellmann, Hans 42

Gujarati 93-99

Gumperz, John 177

habitus (Bourdieu) 15-16, 134, 136

Hall, Stuart 14

health care systems 174-176

Heilbron, Johan 28, 38

Holz-Mänttäri, Justa 3, 153

honorifics 179

human rights 181

Huston, Nancy 120ff.

identity: cultural 91, 180

ideological context 38, 48, 50

imitations 81

immigration 96

India 93ff.

indirect translations, Robinson Crusoe 68, 74

individuals, as causes 4-5

Inghilleri, Moira 181-183

Inquisition, as cause 7-8

institutions, public 33, 176

intercultures, professional 24

interpreters, conference 3, 230

Interpreting Studies 19, 215ff.

Janin, Jules 88ff.

Joual 114

Kade, Otto 18, 217

kinesic 179

Kleinman, Arthur 174, 178, 182

Kuhn, Thomas 225

Lambert, José 69, 83, 143, 150, 168

Latvian 143-150

Lefevere, André 3, 38, 41, 69, 74, 81

Leitão, Henrique 11, 68-72

Liber (Spanish national book fair) 33-35

lies 168

Literary Studies 2, 13, 19

literary systems 42, 143

loyalty 152

Luhmann, Niklas 15

MacLennan, Hugh 101ff.

memes 216ff.

minority languages 27, 33

natural interpreters 201

Netherlands 27-39, 193

Nida, Eugene 2

Nobel Prize 36, 50

non-translation, zero translation (as self- censorship) 68ff.

Nooteboom, Cees 35, 36

Nord, Christiane, on loyalty 156

norms, in Toury 3, 23, 24, 38, 76

Öhquist, Johannes &amp

Rita 41- 52

Pöchhacker, Franz 1, 3, 19- 20, 226

Pöllabauer, Sonia 20

polysystem theory 32, 36

Portuguese 65-72

postcolonial literatures, in India 93ff.

power, and translations 22

print permits 53, 54-57, 59- 61, 63.

print runs, in East Germany 58ff.

Notes:

A collection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Translation and Interpreting, held at Prague, Czech Republic, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252) and index.

ISBN:

9786612155536

9781282155534

1282155539

9789027293411

9027293414

OCLC:

613382528