Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence
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Hanne Jansen
Abstract
The aim of this study is to shed light on questions of “multiple translatorship” and particularly on translation collaboration processes. The empirical material consists of more than three hundred e-mails exchanged between two co-translators who translated Claudio Magris’s novel Alla cieca (2005) into Danish. The theoretical framework presents a double perspective through which the e-mail correspondence is studied: on the one hand, as an ethnographic “thick description” (focusing on translation as an event), with the aim of uncovering who the agents involved are, how they interact, and what their impact is on the final product; and on the other, as a “think-aloud correspondence” (focusing on translation as a cognitive act), with the aim of shedding light on the two translators’ strategies of problem solving and decision-making.
Abstract
The aim of this study is to shed light on questions of “multiple translatorship” and particularly on translation collaboration processes. The empirical material consists of more than three hundred e-mails exchanged between two co-translators who translated Claudio Magris’s novel Alla cieca (2005) into Danish. The theoretical framework presents a double perspective through which the e-mail correspondence is studied: on the one hand, as an ethnographic “thick description” (focusing on translation as an event), with the aim of uncovering who the agents involved are, how they interact, and what their impact is on the final product; and on the other, as a “think-aloud correspondence” (focusing on translation as a cognitive act), with the aim of shedding light on the two translators’ strategies of problem solving and decision-making.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Part I. Opening the field
- Introduction 3
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Part II. Charting the field
- The Scandinavian singer-translator’s multisemiotic voice as performance 21
- Translators, editors, publishers, and critics 39
- The making of a bestseller-in-translation 61
- Contextual factors when reading a translated academic text 81
- When poets translate poetry 101
- Translators in search of originals 119
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Part III. Traveling the field
- Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence 133
- Silenced in translation 159
- The voice of the implied author in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe 181
- Three voices or one? 201
- The voices of Cieza de León in English 223
- References 241
- Index 263
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Part I. Opening the field
- Introduction 3
-
Part II. Charting the field
- The Scandinavian singer-translator’s multisemiotic voice as performance 21
- Translators, editors, publishers, and critics 39
- The making of a bestseller-in-translation 61
- Contextual factors when reading a translated academic text 81
- When poets translate poetry 101
- Translators in search of originals 119
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Part III. Traveling the field
- Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence 133
- Silenced in translation 159
- The voice of the implied author in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe 181
- Three voices or one? 201
- The voices of Cieza de León in English 223
- References 241
- Index 263
