Translation and Ideology

Encounters and Clashes
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-905763-00-9
Verlag: St Jerome Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Ideology has become increasingly central to work in translation studies. To date, however, most studies have focused on literary and religious texts, thus limiting wider understanding of how ideological clashes and encounters pervade any context where power inequalities are present. This special edition of The Translator deliberately focuses on ideology in the translation of a rich variety of lesser-studied genres, namely academic writing, cultural journals, legal and scientific texts, political interviews, advertisements, language policy and European Parliament discourse, in all of which translation as a social practice can be seen to shape, maintain and at times also resist and challenge the asymmetrical nature of exchanges between parties engaged in or subjected to hegemonic practices.



The volume opens with two ground-breaking papers that investigate the nature and representation of truth and knowledge in the translation of the sciences, followed by two contributions which approach the issue of shifts in the translation of ideology from the standpoint of critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis, using data from political speeches and interviews and from English and Korean versions of Newsweek. Other contributions discuss the role that translation scholars can play in raising public awareness of the manipulative devices used in advertising; the way in which potentially competing institutional and individual ideologies are negotiated in the context of interpreting in the European Union; the role translation plays in shaping the politics of a multilingual nation state, with reference to Belgium; and the extent to which the concepts of norms and polysystems may be productive in investigating the link between translation and ideology, with reference to Chinese data.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cunico, Sonia

Munday, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Epistemicide! The Tale of a Predatory Discourse - Karen Bennett The Truth about Sexual Difference: Scientific Discourse and Cultural Transfer - Dolores Sánchez Translation and Ideology: A Textual Approach - Jeremy Munday Recontextualization of News Discourse: A Case Study of Translation of News Discourse on North Korea - Ji-Hae Kang Translators and Translation Studies: Scholars as Inoculators of Resistance - María Calzada Pérez Interpreted Ideologies in Institutional Discourse: The Case of the European Parliament - Morven Beaton La Belgique vivra-t-elle?: Language and Translation Ideological Debates in Belgium (1919-1940) - Reine Meylaerts Norms, Polysystems and Ideology: A Case Study - Yau Wai-ping Revisiting the Classics Book Reviews

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Sonia Cunico is Director of Language Teaching for the Department of Modern Languages and the Foreign Language Centre and Associate Professor at the University of Exeter. Professor Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Aplications 4th ed (2016, Routledge).