Translation and the Reconfiguration of Power Relations

Translation and the Reconfiguration of Power Relations
Title Translation and the Reconfiguration of Power Relations PDF eBook
Author Beatrice Fischer
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Pages 291
Release 2012
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3643902832

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This volume presents translation as a powerful activity by revisiting the roles of translators and interpreters and the contexts of translation and interpreting in societies affected by globalization and migration. The articles cover topics such as the impact languages have on translation, the institutional constraints in the context of translation, and the challenges within the framework of multimodal translation. In recent years, questions of power in translation have emerged. In such a context, the book presents new research paths that can be related to some of the most discussed issues of recent years in Translation Studies. The contributors are 14 PhD students who investigate the power relations in the context of censorship, ideology, localization, multimodal translation, English as a lingua franca in translation, mandatory genres, and translation by non-professional subject-matter translators. (Series: Representation - Transformation. Translating across Cultures and Societies - Vol. 7)

Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power

Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power
Title Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power PDF eBook
Author Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 407
Release 2021-08-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027259720

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The relevance of translation has never been greater. The challenges of the 21st century are truly glocal and societies are required to manage diversities like never before. Cultural and linguistic diversities cut across ideological systems, those carefully crafted to uphold prevailing hierarchies of power, making asymmetries inescapable. Translation and interpreting studies have left behind neutrality and have put forward challenging new approaches that provide a starting point for researching translation as a cultural and historical product in a global and asymmetrical world. This book addresses issues arising from the power vested in and arrogated by translation and interpreting either as instruments of change, or as tools to sustain dominant structures. It presents new perspectives and cutting-edge research findings on how asymmetries are fashioned, woven, upheld, experienced, confronted, resisted, and rewritten through and in translation. This volume is useful for scholars looking for tools to raise awareness as to the challenges posed by the pervasiveness of power relations in mediated communication. It will further help practitioners understand how asymmetries shape their experiences when translating and interpreting.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication
Title The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication PDF eBook
Author Heidi Hamilton
Publisher Routledge
Pages 700
Release 2014-04-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1317932331

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications. The Handbook is divided into three sections: Individuals’ everyday health communication Health professionals’ communicative practices Patient-provider communication in interaction Special attention is given to cross-cutting themes, including the role of technology in health communication, narrative, and observations of authentic, naturally-occurring contexts. The chapters are written by international authorities representing a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Building on established work with cutting-edge studies on the changing health communication landscape, this volume will be an essential reference for all those involved in health communication and applied linguistics research and practice.

Self-Translation and Power

Self-Translation and Power
Title Self-Translation and Power PDF eBook
Author Olga Castro
Publisher Springer
Pages 308
Release 2017-08-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1137507810

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This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the ‘power turn’ in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators. The authors explore the unequal power relations and centre-periphery dichotomies of Europe’s minorised languages, literatures and cultures. They recognise that the self-translator’s double affiliation as author and translator places them in a privileged position to challenge power, to negotiate the experiences of the subaltern and colonised, and to scrutinise conflicting minorised vs. hegemonic cultural identities. Three main themes are explored in relation to self-translation: hegemony and resistance; self-minorisation and self-censorship; and collaboration, hybridisation and invisibility. This edited collection will appeal to scholars and students working on translation, transnational and postcolonial studies, and multilingual and multicultural identities.

New Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting

New Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting
Title New Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting PDF eBook
Author Junfeng Zhao
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 270
Release 2023-03-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9811994226

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This book describes interdisciplinary exploration of matters related to the translation and interpreting of legal texts. Translation of legal texts has grown exponentially since the beginning of new millennium in response to the fast-increasing volume of international trade and business as well as all sorts of other transnational activities in a myriad of spheres. International trade demands translation of trade laws and business contracts, immigration leads to rise in court interpreting services, and countries may seek to enhance their international influence through translating and making known to the world their laws and/or other legal documents. These legal translation activities occurred mostly between languages officially used in international or regional organizations, such as the United Nations and the European Union, and between the languages of major countries who exert or seek influence on international economy and law. On the other hand, rapid advances in computer technology and artificial intelligence in recent years have also brought about changes in the practices of legal translation. With changes also come problems in both theory and practice that merit our immediate attention. This edited volume highlights the newest developments in the theory, practice, and training of legal translation, with contributions from international leading researchers in this area. It will be a standard reference for anyone who is to embark on research and practice of legal translation in the twenty-first century. It is also adaptable as teaching materials for translation and interpreting training.

Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages

Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages
Title Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages PDF eBook
Author Marcin Grygiel
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 465
Release 2017-05-11
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1443892203

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Specialist languages, such as the languages of law, business, aviation, football, and politics, can be perceived as highly conventionalized, semi-natural and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific, and predominantly formal, situations. A large number of them can be best characterized by subject matter and semantic content, but the most important distinctive element in their make-up is the frame of context in which they are embedded. This volume discusses various ways of approaching the problems associated with the very broad phenomenon of specialist languages by means of the analytical mechanisms and theoretical conceptions developed within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The volume includes research carried out by world-renowned experts in the field.

A Discourse Analysis of News Translation in China

A Discourse Analysis of News Translation in China
Title A Discourse Analysis of News Translation in China PDF eBook
Author Liang Xia
Publisher Routledge
Pages 271
Release 2019-01-21
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1351021443

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A Discourse Analysis of News Translation in China offers hitherto underexplored inroads into Chinese media through insider perspectives on a unique Chinese newspaper, Cankao Xiaoxia which not only is the largest circulating newspaper in China but is also unique in that its news consists entirely of stories translated from foreign news sources. The size of the publication, the unique nature of the publication, and the view from the inside of such an organization gathered through interviews with its employees give this proposed book a highly unique perspective that will inform our understanding of the workings of Chinese media in important ways.