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Locating systems and individuals in translation studies

  • Mirella Agorni
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Constructing a Sociology of Translation
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Abstract

In this article a number of approaches to translation studies are taken into consideration, in order to explore the possibility of developing a model which could bring together the socio-cultural and the individual aspects of translation. The author demonstrates that the dichotomy between descriptive and explanatory models can be superseded by adopting a methodology that concentrates on the local dimension of translation. By bringing together the various facets of translation phenomena (i.e. the social, linguistic, cultural aspects), and focusing on their material specificity, localism projects a limited but comprehensive image of translation and its social environment. Such an image stands for the original in a metonymic way: working via connection, this model produces multiple meanings, instead of striving for unique solutions.

Abstract

In this article a number of approaches to translation studies are taken into consideration, in order to explore the possibility of developing a model which could bring together the socio-cultural and the individual aspects of translation. The author demonstrates that the dichotomy between descriptive and explanatory models can be superseded by adopting a methodology that concentrates on the local dimension of translation. By bringing together the various facets of translation phenomena (i.e. the social, linguistic, cultural aspects), and focusing on their material specificity, localism projects a limited but comprehensive image of translation and its social environment. Such an image stands for the original in a metonymic way: working via connection, this model produces multiple meanings, instead of striving for unique solutions.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction: The emergence of a sociology of translation 1
  4. Part I. The debate on the translator's position in an emerging sociology of translation
  5. Priests, princes and pariahs: Constructing the professional field of translation 39
  6. Translation, irritation and resonance 57
  7. Part II. Bourdieu's influence in conceptualising a sociology of translation
  8. Objectivation, réflexivité et traduction: Pour une re-lecture bourdieusienne de la traduction 79
  9. Outline for a sociology of translation: Current issues and future prospects 93
  10. The location of the 'translation field': Negotiating borderlines between Pierre Bourdieu and Homi Bhabha 109
  11. Part III. Mapping the field: Issues of method and translation practice
  12. Locating systems and individuals in translation studies 123
  13. Translations 'in the making' 135
  14. Bridge concepts in translation sociology 171
  15. Part IV. Constructing a sociology of translation studies: Overview and perspectives
  16. Between sociology and history: Method in context and in practice 187
  17. Y a-t-il place pour une socio-traductologie? 205
  18. Notes on contributors 219
  19. Author index 223
  20. Subject index 225
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.74.10ago

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction: The emergence of a sociology of translation 1
  4. Part I. The debate on the translator's position in an emerging sociology of translation
  5. Priests, princes and pariahs: Constructing the professional field of translation 39
  6. Translation, irritation and resonance 57
  7. Part II. Bourdieu's influence in conceptualising a sociology of translation
  8. Objectivation, réflexivité et traduction: Pour une re-lecture bourdieusienne de la traduction 79
  9. Outline for a sociology of translation: Current issues and future prospects 93
  10. The location of the 'translation field': Negotiating borderlines between Pierre Bourdieu and Homi Bhabha 109
  11. Part III. Mapping the field: Issues of method and translation practice
  12. Locating systems and individuals in translation studies 123
  13. Translations 'in the making' 135
  14. Bridge concepts in translation sociology 171
  15. Part IV. Constructing a sociology of translation studies: Overview and perspectives
  16. Between sociology and history: Method in context and in practice 187
  17. Y a-t-il place pour une socio-traductologie? 205
  18. Notes on contributors 219
  19. Author index 223
  20. Subject index 225
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