Search results for "Sociology of translation"
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Is translation an autopoietic system?
2010
Translation is analyzed from the standpoint of its systemic properties. Translation is shown to have the capacity to observe itself and its difference from the environment. Observation being a major autopoietic factor, translation may be considered as an autopoietic system. Doubts about this hypothesis arise because of the peculiarities of communicative properties of translation. Translation plays the role of the mediating party in complex translation communication events and its communicative behavior is ‘defective’ in that translation does not act upon source messages because its communicative function is passing messages on to the target party. As a system, translation may be studied aga…
Traduire Henri Maldiney : conditions d’une réception en anglais
2019
Cet article porte sur la traduction multilingue de l’œuvre du philosophe français Henri Maldiney (1912-2013). Quelles sont les conditions de traduction d’une œuvre philosophique nourrie de multiples corpus et transdisciplinaire ? Plus précisément, nous tentons de répondre aux questions suivantes : pourquoi traduire Maldiney ? Qui traduit Maldiney ? Chez quel éditeur ? À partir de quel corpus, si l’on songe que ses œuvres complètes sont en cours de réédition depuis 2012 ? Cette réédition et l’arrivée d’une nouvelle génération de lecteurs ont stimulé des traductions partielles en allemand, italien, japonais, russe et portugais, assorties de réflexions traductologiques. Les diverses traduction…
Outline of a sociology of translation informed by the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu
2010
In this article I put forward a sociology of translation informed by the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu. Founded on a theory of action, this theory may be defined as a theory of translation practice. Translation practice is examined here through the study of the translation of symbolic goods, specifically American literature into French. The notions of ‘field’, ‘habitus’ and ‘illusio’ are briefly analysed and applied to American literature in French. The habitus of Marcel Duhamel and Maurice-Edgar Coindreau are examined, as well as the illusio specific to the science-fiction field. Bourdieusian sociology serves as a foundation for raising questions that are often discussed in translation studies …
Uncovering the hidden actors with the help of Latour: the ‘making’ of The Second Sex
2010
Aquest article vol responder a les critiques actuals a la primera i única traducció a l’anglés de Le deuxième sexe de Simone de Beauvoir. Replanteja la dinámica traductor-editor aplicant el marc sociològic de Bruno Latour per tal d’assolir conclusions més detallades i de major abast. Després d’una breu presentació d’aquesta publicació, de la recepció i de la crítica de la traducció a l’anglés, l’article investiga l’estudi de cas amb l’ajuda de Latour i de les cartes dels arxius del Smith College. L’estudi es fonamenta en la lectura de documents històrics: més d’un centenar de cartes entre el traductor, Howard M. Parshley, i l’editorial, Alfred A. Knopf. S’ofereix també una breu revisió de l…
La traducción literaria y la brecha de paralaje: reflexiones a partir de un cuestionario piloto
2010
La investigación social se ha movido históricamente entre oposiciones conceptuales que el construccionismo sociológico intenta superar. Mediante el análisis de las respuestas y los problemas planteados por un cuestionario piloto dirigido a traductores de literatura, se tratan una serie de planteamientos aplicables a la investigación sociológica de la traducción literaria. Se hace especial hincapié en la indefinición como grupo de los traductores literarios y se plantea la utilidad del concepto “brecha de paralaje” (Slavoj Žižek) como método de análisis interdisciplinar y dialéctico. Historically, social research has alternated between conceptual opposites that social constructionism tries t…
Literary translation and the parallax gap: reflections on a pilot questionnaire
2010
This article is the English version of "La traducción literaria y la brecha de paralaje: reflexiones a partir de un cuestionario piloto" by Fruela Fernández. It was not published on the print version of MonTI for reasons of space. The online version of MonTI does not suffer from these limitations, and this is our way of promoting plurilingualism. Historically, social research has alternated between conceptual opposites that social constructionism tries to reconcile. By analyzing the issues raised and responses given to a pilot questionnaire completed by literary translators, this article discusses approaches that could be applied to sociological research in literary translation. Special emp…
Translation as a measure of literary domination: the case of Quebec literature translated in Spain (1975-2004)
2010
Recent literary manifestos claim that “the center is no longer the center” (Le Devoir 2007). Indeed, it is generally admitted that Quebec literature has been more or less independent from the French field since the 1970’s. However, the analysis of the translation of this literature –its international circulation, and the almost compulsory stopover in France before being selected for translation by the agents of other literary fields– reveals various mechanisms through which the French symbolic center still exerts its power. Drawing on the application of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture to the international space (Casanova 1999; Sapiro 2007, 2008; etc.), this article argues that transl…
The sociology of translation: outline of an emerging field
2010
L’article revisa el camp emergent de la sociologia de la traducció, amb un èmfasi especial en dues àrees clau: la traducció literària i la traducció periodística. Mentre que la traducció literària és un àmbit de gran importància en Traductologia, la traducció periodística ha rebut fins fa poc una atenció reduïda. L’article planteja que introduir la sociologia en l’estudi de la traducció literària i periodística posa de relleu no tan sols aspectes importants del context social en el que es dóna la traducció i contribueix a una comprensió renovada del camp, sinó que també fa que la traducció esdevinga rellevant per a altres disciplines, en especial la sociologia i la recerca en globalització.
Selling Hungarian Fiction in Translation : Agency and Process
2021
This article focuses on the publication of Hungarian fiction in translation, with a special consideration of English as a TL. I argue that the mediation of Hungarian literature, a supply-driven activity, is an interactive social event influenced by factors including power, dominance and economics. I identify the social networks and review the institutional background as well as the process of the selection, translation and publication of Hungarian fiction. I discuss the role of various actors in the mediation of Hungarian literature: Hungarian publishers and literary agents; TL publishers; and translators from Hungarian into English. Besides doing research and conducting interviews with peo…