Translation and the problem of sway / Douglas Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Douglas, 1954-

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 92.

Benjamins translation library ; v. 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Methodology.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Translation and the Problem of Sway Douglas Robinson offers the concept of "sway" to bring together discussion of two translational phenomena that have traditionally been considered in isolation, i.e. norms and errors: norms as ideological pressures to conform to the source text, and deviations from the source text as driven by ideological pressures to conform to some extratextual authority. The two theoretical constructs around which the discussion of translational sway is organized are Peirce's "interpretant" as rethought by Lawrence Venuti and "narrativity" as rethought by Mona Baker. Robinson offers a series of "friendly amendments" to both, looking closely at specific translation histories (Alex. Matson to and from Finnish, two English translations of Dostoevsky) as well as theoretical models from Aristotle to Peirce to expand the range and power of these concepts. In addition to translation and interpreting scholars this book will be of interest to scholars of communication and social interaction.

Contents:

Translation and the Problem of Sway

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 The question of error

1.2 The Brafmans on sway

1.3 Gideon Toury on translation norms

1.4 Venuti and Baker

Chapter 2. Lawrence Venuti on the interpretant

2.1 Martindale on the translator's free play

2.2 Venuti's argument

2.3 Rethinking the interpretant

2.4 The interpretant as an impulse reticulated through the somatic exchange

2.5 Conclusion

Chapter 3. The case of Alex. Matson

3.1 The background

3.1.1 Seven Brothers

3.1.2 The life and work

3.1.3 Translating Seven Brothers

3.1.4 Being bilingual

3.1.5 New Critical focus on form

3.2 Matson's translations

3.2.1 From English to Finnish

3.2.2 From Finnish to English

3.3 Matson's interpretants

3.3.1 Observing Matson translating

3.3.2 The rhetorical interpretant

3.3.3 Analytical applications

Chapter 4. The spatiotemporal dynamic of foreignization

4.0 Introduction: The phenomenology and structuralism of foreignism

4.1 "Foreignism and the Phantom Limb"

4.2 David Bohm on proprioception

4.3 Antonio Damasio on somatomimesis

4.4 The group proprioception of translation

4.4.1 The own and the alien

4.4.2 Estrangement

4.4.3 The group proprioception of foreignizing translation

Chapter 5. Translating Dostoevsky, theorizing translation

5.1 Venuti on translating Dostoevsky

5.2 Two Dostoevsky translations

5.2.1 Dostoevsky's "bad writing"

5.2.2 Comparison of a single paragraph

5.2.3 Colloquialism

5.2.4 Polyphonic Dostoevsky

5.3 Theorizing translation

5.3.1 The axiological interpretant

5.3.2 The (meta)formal interpretant

Chapter 6. Mona Baker on narratives

6.0 Introduction

6.1 Narrativity and interpretancy.

6.2 The somatic exchange

6.3 Rhetorical situation

6.3.1 Walter Fisher's narrative paradigm

6.3.2 The warrant

6.3.3 Reticulatory resonance

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613121998

9781283121996

1283121999

9789027286826

9027286825

OCLC:

733731219