Functional approaches to culture and translation : selected papers by Jose Lambert / edited by Dirk Delabastita, Lieven D'Hulst, and Reine Meylaerts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, José.

Contributor:

Delabastita, Dirk.

Hulst, Lieven d'.

Meylaerts, Reine.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 69.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 225 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains a generous selection of articles on translation by Professor José Lambert (K.U. Leuven). It traces the intellectual itinerary of their author, who started out as a French and Comparative Literature scholar some four decades ago trying to get a better grip on the problem of inter-literary contacts, and who soon became a key figure in the emergent discipline of Translation Studies, where he is widely known as an indefatigable promoter of descriptively oriented research. This collection shows how José Lambert has never stopped asking new questions about the crucial but often hidden role of language and translation in the world of today. It includes some of the author's classic papers as well as a few lesser known ones that deserve wider circulation. The editors' introduction and the bibliography complete this thought-provoking survey of the career of one of the most creative researchers in the field.

Contents:

Functional Approaches to Culture and Translation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

photo

Table of contents

Introduction

Life and works

The papers in this volume

Beyond the printed page

Lessons for the future

Editorial note

Acknowledgments

Tabula gratulatoria

Traduction et technique romanesque

Documents littéraires

Production, tradition et importation: une clef pour la description de la littérature et de la littérature en traduction1

L'éternelle question des frontières: littératures nationales et systèmes littéraires

L'(in)actualité du sujet

Les manuels d'histoire littéraire

Les systèmes littéraires

Un objet privilégié: la littérature en Belgique

Ensembles supra- et infra-nationaux

On describing translations

1. Theoretical and descriptive studies

2. A hypothetical scheme for describing translations

3. Relations and equivalence

4. Binary versus complex relations

5. The aims and limits of text comparison

6. The implications of a systemic approach

Appendix: A synthetic scheme for translation description

Twenty years of research on literary translation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Reception studies in comparative literature

Translation theories and literary systems

From descriptive models to projects

Methodological discussions

In quest of literary world maps

The principle of maps

Linguistic maps

Literary maps, old and new

National literature as unit

What is this fuss all about?

Elements of a new world picture

New research objectives

Shifts, oppositions and goals in translation studies: towards a genealogy of concepts

The name and nature of the discipline

Criticism vs. descriptive studies

Descriptive and/or literary research?

Holmes, disciples and successors.

Literatures, translation and (de)colonization1

Why translation is often unknown and unnoticed

Translation as politics

Source/target relations, binarism, new worlds

A privileged diaspora: Belgium

The extremes of political impact: hypotheses as games

A certain kind of import

Patterns of translational import

Some features of colonization: from East Asia to Europe

Decolonization, or a few words about the (long) day after

Translation, systems and research: the contribution of polysystem studies to translation studies

Back to the origins

Goals of the discussion

The heterogeneity of cultures

The heart of the matter: PS research - rather than theory

Conceptualization

What exactly has changed?

Institutionalization?

World-wide

Beyond translation: neighbouring disciplines

Limits, shortcomings, debates

Survival: 1975-1995, and beyond?

Problems and challenges of translation in an age of new media and competing models

The rules of the debate: terminology and discourse

What kind of agreements may be called for

Bible translation and/or general translation

Distinguishing between translation as skill, art, science and object of research

Back to definitions: what is `translation' after all?

Translation and/as language: verbal and beyond

The future: from translation studies into media studies

From translation markets to language management: the implications of translation services1

The situation

The investigation

Basic insights

Beyond the local investigation

Towards an explanation: language and/as translation

Concluding remarks

Cultural studies, the study of cultures and the question of language: facing / excluding the new millennium1

Disciplines

On the field: observing culture in everyday life

New and old worlds, or the language of translation.

American and other puzzles: language and identity in the new millennium

Updating cultural studies, or universities

La traduction littéraire comme problème belge ou la littérature comme traduction

In medias res: une traduction `belge' durant l'entre-deux-guerres

Les caprices et surprises de la contextualisation: géographies et chronologies

Histoire intra-belge, ou histoires belges pour étrangers?

Avant Kervyn…

Après Kervyn…

Traductions intra-belges, mais à sens unique?

Importation (in-traductions) et exportation (ex-traductions), dissymétries internes et externes

Qui aurait besoin de traductions?

Histoires locales / internationales: ce que (ne) nous apprennent (pas) les statistiques

Mémoires de licence K.U. Leuven (non publiés) (promoteur: José Lambert)

Bibliography

1. Publications by José Lambert

2. Other references

Name index

Subject index

The series Benjamins Translation Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612155345

9781282155343

1282155342

9789027293220

9027293228

OCLC:

237390390