The sociological turn in translation and interpreting studies / edited by Claudia V. Angelelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelelli, Claudia (Claudia V.), editor.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; Volume 66.

Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; Volume 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Summary:

The traditional view holds that professional interpreters should be transparent, invisible, passive, neutral, and detached, a view reiterated and reinforced in the prescribed interpreters' codes of conduct of national and international professional organizations. Such an idealized role construct, however, is from time to time deconstructed in real-life face-to-face interpreting events. In this paper, face-to-face interpreting is seen as a three-way communicative event in which the interpreter is a co-constructor of the interaction and can therefore be a powerful figure. From the perspective of interpreting as a socially-situated activity, the paper adopts Michel Foucault's concept of power, defining it not as the traditionally dominating force to monopolize, control, or rule, but as a kind of strategy, disposition, maneuver, tactic, or technique, functioning in a network of relations. Although interpreters often lack institutional power, they may be equipped with power within the exchange as a result of their bilingual and bicultural expertise. They may exercise this power by adopting various verbal and non-verbal strategies to negotiate, coordinate, check, and balance power relations. This can be specifically manifested in interpreters' social action as co-interlocutors, empowerment figures, or in the adoption of a non-neutral stance. Examples are cited from authentic interpreting events to analyze interpreters' power-at-work, focusing on their verbal and non-verbal behaviors, in particular, their positioning and gaze.

Contents:

The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies

References

The sociology of translation and its "activist turn"

The social/sociological turn

Sociological insights

The translator's habitus

Habitus and the "activist turn"

Political dissidents as translators, editors, and publishers

Introduction and background

What, we might ask, was the political situation that led to this state of affairs?

Habitus

Does the habitus theory apply?

Professional behavior and habitus?

Those who "crossed the lines"

Professional pride?

The question of readership

Field habitus?

Conclusion

"The sheikh of the translators"

Introduction

Translatorial habitus

Hunayn ibn Ishaq: Background

The sociolinguistic environment

Varying source and target languages

Arabicization: Expanding the lexicon

The ad sensum approach

The annotated translation

Catering to the audience

Gaining experience

The Art of War in retranslating Sun Tzu

Culture capital, habitus, and differences

The Art of War

The case study

Griffith's investment of cultural capital

Gagliardi's strategy

Italy's other Mafia

1. Theoretical framework

2. General background, aims, and methodology

3. Symbols of the Camorra

The 'Dark Ladies' of the Camorra

Guappo

Pentito

Picciotto vs. Guaglione

4 Framing the Camorra in its historical and social context

5. Specialized language

6. Conclusions

Translators in international organizations

1. Introduction

2. On the concept of status

3. Hypothesis

4. Methodology.

4.1 Data collection - the EU translators

4.2 Data collection - The national-market translators

4.3 Questionnaires

5. Analyses and results

5.1 Translator status and prestige in general

5.2 Remuneration

5.3 Education/expertise

5.4 Power/influence

5.5 Visibility

6. Conclusion

Power in face-to-face interpreting events

2. The interpreter's role

3. Power

4. Manifestations of institutional power

5. The interpreter's interactional power

6. Positioning and gaze

7. Conclusion

Key to transcriptions

Notes on contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269652

9027269653