Cultural translation: An introduction to the problem, and Responses

Buden, Boris; Nowotny, Stefan; Simon, Sherry; Bery, Ashok; Cronin, Michael

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“…Indeed, World Englishes appear another example of the uneven magic of cultural translation. Of course, the promise of that latter term, as Boris Buden and Stefan Nowotny (2009) would suggest, is dangerously celebratory. This dangerously seductive promise should prompt us to pay attention to the uneven quality of the translation, especially when no 'translation proper' takes place, and English is reconfigured to meet the needs of a local population.…”

Section: The Transparency Of Global Englishmentioning

confidence: 99%

Involuntary Associations: ‘Postcolonial Studies’ and ‘World Englishes’

Huddart¹

2014

Involuntary Associations

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Postcolonialism across the Disciplines showcases alternative directions for postcolonial studies. It is in part an attempt to counteract the dominance in colonial and postcolonial studies of one particular discipline -English literary/ cultural studies -and to make the case for a combination of disciplinary knowledges as the basis for contemporary postcolonial critique. Edited by leading scholars, the series aims to be a seminal contribution to the field, spanning the traditional range of disciplines represented in postcolonial studies but also those less acknowledged. It will also embrace new critical paradigms and examine the relationship between the transnational/cultural, the global and the postcolonial. Involuntary Associations Postcolonial Studies andWorld Englishes David HuddartLiverpool University Press The right of David Huddart to be identified as the author of this book has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication dataA British Library CIP record is available ISBN 978-1-78138-025-3 cased Involuntary AssociationsTypeset in Amerigo by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster Printed and bound by BooksFactory.co.uk I do not underestimate the personal vision in the teeth of a mass-media world. It is through such deeply intuitive insights drawn from hard work and concentration that one may reflect in new ways upon areas of history that are replete with ironies of involuntary association between cultures. Such ironies highlight an addiction to invariance, closed minds, and divided cultures, even as they disclose, I think, the mystery of cross-cultural wholeness steeped in the freedom of diversity to cross boundaries that restrict our vision of therapeutic and evolving reality.Wilson Harris, Selected Essays vii F irst, thanks to my students and teaching assistants from over eight years of teaching World Englishes. In particular, thanks to Tara Coleman and Chris Tsang, who helped recast its teaching in essential ways. Meanwhile, the final stages of this book would have been more problematic without the assistance of Emily Chow and Franziscka Cheng. I would also like to thank all my colleagues in Hong Kong for their hard work and challenging conversation. Extra thanks for a random selection of things to Peter Skehan, Julian Lamb, Eddie Tay, Michael O'Sullivan, Grant Hamilton, and Simon Haines. Beyond the Hong Kong context, I would like to thank David Ewick, who a long time ago prompted me to begin thinking about some of the issues addressed in this book in the Japanese context. In addition, thanks to Robert Phillipson for detailed and trenchant comments about the manuscript. Finally, I would like to acknowledge that the work recorded in this book was supported by a grant from the H...

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Section: The Transparency Of Global Englishmentioning

confidence: 99%

Involuntary Associations: ‘Postcolonial Studies’ and ‘World Englishes’

Huddart¹

2014

Involuntary Associations

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“…The judge has worked within the constraints imposed on him to make a stranger no longer strange, a new member of the national community. Buden and Nowotny (2009) say that the judge has found "a correct question" for "a wrong answer" (p. 207). The judge has taken advantage of the gap between one use of the sign "1492" and the next.…”

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Communication is Translation, or, How to Mind the Gap

Conway

2017

Pacla

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In this age of globalization, scholars in cultural studies and translation studies would seem to have a lot to talk about. It is strange, then, that they talk so little with each other. This article seeks to bridge that gap by asking what a theory of translation would look like if it were grounded in the field of cultural studies. It proposes three axioms: 1) to use a sign is to transform it; 2) to transform a sign is to translate it; and 3) communication is translation. Its argument is performative rather than simply expository: it is structured as an example of the phenomenon it describes. It explores the three axioms inductively, starting from strategically chosen examples to arrive at a notion of translation that prompts a final conjecture: translation is inextricably linked to rhetorical invention and, as such, it helps us reframe questions about our relationship with and responsibility toward cultural others.

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“…In anthropology, cultural translation usually "refers to the act of describing for members of one cultural community how members of another interpret the world and their place in it" [6]. And it is generally agreed among anthropologists that "the introduction of remote and primitive tribal cultures to Western readers in Western languages is per se the translation between cultures" [6].…”

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Revisiting the Cultural Turn in Translation Studies

Dai¹

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science (HSS 2017)

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Abstract. This paper critically reviews the existing controversies over the cultural turn in Translation Studies by discussing the three major doubts cast onto this theory. The researcher begins by reviewing the background of the theory before analyzing the nature of the theory with an elaborate discussion on a religious translation dilemma. It is found that as a significant approach to Translation Studies, the cultural turn theory enables researchers to focus on the greater contextual factors influencing translatorial behavior rather than being myopic of the linguistic details. The paper thus contributes to a better understanding of the importance of using the theory as an analytical tool in translation research and an enhanced awareness of integrating text with context when studying translation.

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Cultural translation: An introduction to the problem, and Responses

Cited by 141 publications

References 16 publications

Involuntary Associations: ‘Postcolonial Studies’ and ‘World Englishes’

Involuntary Associations: ‘Postcolonial Studies’ and ‘World Englishes’

Communication is Translation, or, How to Mind the Gap

Revisiting the Cultural Turn in Translation Studies

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