Translation Studies Between Disciplines and Practices.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

van Doorslaer, Luc.

Series:

Benjamins Translation Library

Benjamins Translation Library ; v.174

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

This volume explores how Translation Studies is shifting from interdisciplinarity toward the blurring of disciplinary boundaries. It collects 20 co-authored chapters looking at Translation Studies from the perspectives of other disciplines and practices.

Contents:

Intro

Authors' bio notes

Chapter 1 From interdisciplinarity to blurring disciplinary boundaries

1. Changing perspectives

2. A conceptual expansion

3. Fluidity and nomadism

4. TS

5. The future of an open discipline?

6. Process and structure of the volume

References

Part 1 Between academic disciplines

Chapter 2 Periodical studies and translation studies

1. Introduction

2. Periodicals in translation studies

3. Translation in periodical studies

4. Concepts and approaches

5. Perspectives for future research

Chapter 3 African studies and translation studies

2. On translation and language(s)

3. Conceptualizing borders across the disciplines

4. Empirical insights

4.1 Insights into empirical data

4.2 Empirical insights from translation studies

5. Concluding remarks

Funding

Acknowledgements

Chapter 4 Memory studies and translation studies

1. Interdisciplinary encounters

2. Back and forth between the local and the global dimensions: Ethical considerations

3. Translation as transformation

4. Interlingual and cultural translation - or why we must challenge fixed originals and traditional source-target orientations

Chapter 5 Geography and translation studies

1. Bringing the disciplines into alignment

2. Crossing disciplinary divides as individual scholars

3. Key puzzles for geography and TS

4. Conclusion

Chapter 6 Cognitive linguistics in translation and interpreting studies

2. Cognitive theories in translation and interpreting studies (TIS)

3. Cognition in interpreting

4. Cognition in translation

5. Cognition in multimodal contexts

6. Interdisciplinary research agendas for future research

7. Conclusion

References.

Chapter 7 Semiotics of culture and translation studies

1. Why did Ubaldo need semiotics for his research agenda?

2. Why did Peeter need translation studies (TS) for his research agenda?

3. Semiotic traditions and interdisciplinarity

4. Total translation

5. Tracing a border between translation and adaptation

Chapter 8 Film studies and translation studies

1. Translation and film history

2. Universality and particularity in film (and) translation

3. Mainstream cinema and audiovisual translation

4. Asymmetries of power and errant film translation practices

5. Translation, reproduction and transformation in the digital age

6. Concluding remarks

Films cited

Chapter 9 Anthropology and translation (studies)

Judith Laister

Rafael Schögler

2. Translation and the crisis of representation

3. Translation as heuristic in anthropological research

Chapter 10 Imagology and translation studies

1. Disciplines with different fortunes

2. Cultural memory and geocultural spaces

3. The outlook

Chapter 11 Philosophy and translation studies

1. Philosophy and translation

2. Philosophy in TS

3. The translation - an original?

4. Can the translation be the original?

Part 2 Between translation studies and practices

Chapter 12 Language industry and translation studies

2. The language industry

3. Translation studies

4. Questions and commentary

4.1 How has TS understood and defined the LI and adapted as a consequence?

4.2 How does the LI understand and define TS? How does TS understand and define studies of the LI?.

4.3 How do the LI and TS each respectively understand the role of translators and the purpose of translation and its value as a product and/or service, especially since GenAI technologies were introduced?

4.4 Are there theoretical, conceptual, or methodological approaches from TS that have benefited, or which potentially could benefit the LI?

5. Conclusion

Chapter 13 International business and translation studies

1. Prologue

2. Introduction

2. Translation and TS in IB research

3. TS in IB

4. Looking ahead

Chapter 14 Museum practice and translation studies

2. The museum translator

3. The museum translator

3.1 Time constraint

3.2 Boundary practice

3.3 Interpretation

3.4 The museum translator's self-identity

Chapter 15 Travel writing and translation studies

2. Travel as (many types of) translation

3. Selection

4. Subjectivity / rewriting / bias

5. (Self-)representation, image building and aestheticization

6. Transfers

7. Negotiation of values and emotions

8. Conclusion

Chapter 16 Fashion and translation

1. The role of translation in fashion theory

1.1 Fashion, clothing, style, look

1.2 Fashion as cultural translation

1.3 Cultural studies and TS

1.4 Translation between cultures

1.5 Transculturality

2. Fashion as the driving force of TS as a discipline

2.1 Fashion as an academic concept

2.2 Translation and fashion as transformation

2.3 (Cultural) translation and transculturality

2.4 Translation as an academic concept in and beyond TS

2.5 Towards transdisciplinarity

2.6 (Future) challenges

3. Concluding remarks

Chapter 17 Religion and translation

1. Introduction.

2. Philology and the emergence of RS as a discipline

3. Religious translation and the emergence of TS as discipline

4. Widening of TS, complexity and the semiotics of alterity

5. Use of translation in sacred appearance and the complexity of traditions

5.1 Religions with dominant written traditions

5.2 Religions with dominant oral traditions

6. Conclusions

Chapter 18 Translational medicine vis-à-vis medical translation

2. Translational medicine and knowledge translation

3. Medical translation

4. Gaps

4.1 Translation and the translator's agency

4.2 Uncorrupted vs altered knowledge

4.3 Knowledge and evidence

4.4 Knowledge vs meaning

4.5 Monolingualism, and monologism vs. multilingualism and dialogism

4.6 Context and utterance

4.7 Global health

5. Final remarks and further dialogue

Chapter 19 Rhetoric and translation

2. Rhetoric, translation, and a history of semantic excess

3. Rhetorical translation

Chapter 20 Postlude

Translation, categorisation and disciplinarisation

An interdisciplinary dialogue?

TS as an (inter)discipline?

On a threshold

Index.

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ISBN:

9789027243263