Establishing an online bibliographic database for Canadian Literary Translation Studies
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Pamela Grant
Abstract
In recent years Canada has achieved international recognition not only for its prize-winning writers (Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Yann Martel, Carol Shields), but also for innovation and leadership in Translation Studies, which has emerged as a relatively new but increasingly vibrant field of scholarly research and publication in our country. In order to facilitate the dissemination and exchange of information about Canadian Literary Translation Studies and foster an increasingly collaborative and international research process, researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, have established an online bibliographic database of theoretical and critical writing on literary translation in Canada as part of the larger Bibliography of Comparative Studies in Canadian, Québec and Foreign Literatures/Bibliographie d’études comparées des littératures canadienne, québécoise et étrangères. This paper outlines the background of this web-based project and the procedures set in place, as well as the inevitable challenges that may well resonate with other translation bibliographies.
Abstract
In recent years Canada has achieved international recognition not only for its prize-winning writers (Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Yann Martel, Carol Shields), but also for innovation and leadership in Translation Studies, which has emerged as a relatively new but increasingly vibrant field of scholarly research and publication in our country. In order to facilitate the dissemination and exchange of information about Canadian Literary Translation Studies and foster an increasingly collaborative and international research process, researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, have established an online bibliographic database of theoretical and critical writing on literary translation in Canada as part of the larger Bibliography of Comparative Studies in Canadian, Québec and Foreign Literatures/Bibliographie d’études comparées des littératures canadienne, québécoise et étrangères. This paper outlines the background of this web-based project and the procedures set in place, as well as the inevitable challenges that may well resonate with other translation bibliographies.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction ix
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1. Theory
- What is a unique item? 3
- Five reasons why semiotics is good for Translation Studies 15
- Translation Studies and Transfer Studies 27
- Modelling translator’s competence 41
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2. Methodology
- Notes for a cartography of literary translation history in Portugal 59
- Establishing an online bibliographic database for Canadian Literary Translation Studies 73
- The role of technology in translation management 85
- Establishing rigour in a between-method investigation of SI expertise 99
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3. Empirical Research
- Translation revision 115
- Translational analysis and the dynamics of reading 127
- The effect of translation on humour response 137
- SAT, BLT, Spirit Biscuits, and the Third Amendment 153
- Reception, text and context in the study of opera surtitles 169
- What makes interpreters’ notes efficient? 183
- Traduction, genre et discours scientifique 199
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4. Linguistics-based
- Evaluative noun phrases in journalism and their translation from English into Finnish 213
- Translating the implicit 223
- Divisions, description and applications 237
- A clivagem no português 253
- Construals in literary translation 267
- Phraseologie und Übersetzung unter Anwendung von Parallelkorpora 281
- The relevance of utterer-centered linguistics to translation studies 297
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5. Literature-based
- De la question de la lisibilité des traductions françaises de Don Quijote 311
- Collusion or authenticity 323
- Translators’ agency in 19th-century Finland 335
- Le concept de mimésis 347
- Name index 357
- Subject index 359
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction ix
-
1. Theory
- What is a unique item? 3
- Five reasons why semiotics is good for Translation Studies 15
- Translation Studies and Transfer Studies 27
- Modelling translator’s competence 41
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2. Methodology
- Notes for a cartography of literary translation history in Portugal 59
- Establishing an online bibliographic database for Canadian Literary Translation Studies 73
- The role of technology in translation management 85
- Establishing rigour in a between-method investigation of SI expertise 99
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3. Empirical Research
- Translation revision 115
- Translational analysis and the dynamics of reading 127
- The effect of translation on humour response 137
- SAT, BLT, Spirit Biscuits, and the Third Amendment 153
- Reception, text and context in the study of opera surtitles 169
- What makes interpreters’ notes efficient? 183
- Traduction, genre et discours scientifique 199
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4. Linguistics-based
- Evaluative noun phrases in journalism and their translation from English into Finnish 213
- Translating the implicit 223
- Divisions, description and applications 237
- A clivagem no português 253
- Construals in literary translation 267
- Phraseologie und Übersetzung unter Anwendung von Parallelkorpora 281
- The relevance of utterer-centered linguistics to translation studies 297
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5. Literature-based
- De la question de la lisibilité des traductions françaises de Don Quijote 311
- Collusion or authenticity 323
- Translators’ agency in 19th-century Finland 335
- Le concept de mimésis 347
- Name index 357
- Subject index 359
