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Translation studies at a cross-roads

Abstract

This article is an account of the personal journey of one writer, from her first encounters in the 1970s with fellow scholars sharing an interest in translation and a sense of frustration at the anti-translation prejudices of many colleagues working in literature or linguistics at that time. The article traces the gradual rise of translation studies as an important field in its own right, but raises questions about the present state of the discipline, arguing that as translation studies has become more established, so it is failing to challenge orthodoxies and risks being left behind by the more innovative and exciting research now emerging from within world literature, postcolonialism, and cultural memory studies. I suggest that translation studies has reached a cross-roads and needs to reach out to other disciplines, taking advantage of what is being hailed by some as a translational turn within the humanities in general.

Abstract

This article is an account of the personal journey of one writer, from her first encounters in the 1970s with fellow scholars sharing an interest in translation and a sense of frustration at the anti-translation prejudices of many colleagues working in literature or linguistics at that time. The article traces the gradual rise of translation studies as an important field in its own right, but raises questions about the present state of the discipline, arguing that as translation studies has become more established, so it is failing to challenge orthodoxies and risks being left behind by the more innovative and exciting research now emerging from within world literature, postcolonialism, and cultural memory studies. I suggest that translation studies has reached a cross-roads and needs to reach out to other disciplines, taking advantage of what is being hailed by some as a translational turn within the humanities in general.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Translation Studies looking back and looking forward 1
  5. Articles
  6. Translation studies at a cross-roads 17
  7. Quo vadis, functional translatology? 29
  8. More spoken or more translated? 47
  9. The development and current state of translation process research 65
  10. Une traductologie pour quelles pratiques traductionnelles ? 89
  11. The neuroscience of translation 111
  12. Unknown agents in translated political discourse 131
  13. The city in translation 155
  14. Index
  15. Index 173
The Known Unknowns of Translation Studies
This chapter is in the book The Known Unknowns of Translation Studies
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.69.02bas

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Translation Studies looking back and looking forward 1
  5. Articles
  6. Translation studies at a cross-roads 17
  7. Quo vadis, functional translatology? 29
  8. More spoken or more translated? 47
  9. The development and current state of translation process research 65
  10. Une traductologie pour quelles pratiques traductionnelles ? 89
  11. The neuroscience of translation 111
  12. Unknown agents in translated political discourse 131
  13. The city in translation 155
  14. Index
  15. Index 173
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