<i>Translation Studies</i>Forum: Cultural translation

Pratt, Mary Louise; Wagner, B.J.; Cortés, Ovidi Carbonell i; Chesterman, Andrew; Tymoczko, Maria

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“…The multilingual person is not someone who translates constantly from one language (or cultural system) into another, although this is something multilinguals are sometimes able to do. But to be multilingual is, above all, to be one for whom translation is unnecessary because one lives in more than one language (Pratt 2010). Joanne seeks further information, asking an open question which seems to temporarily silence the otherwise verbose X.…”

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“…Translation is a metaphor for characterising the transactions, the appropriations, negotiations, migrations, mediations that give rise to it. Also relevant here is the power (not the task) of the translator, as the one who knows both the codes; the one who has the power to do justice, be faithful, yet also to capture, deceive, betray one side to the other, or betray both to a third (Pratt 2010). Joanne takes up her client's case again, her act of translation not a translation between languages, but a characterization of the system against the individual.…”

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“…The everyday life of today's cities unfolds through the continuous negotiation of linguistic, historical and cultural heterogeneity, carried on through the human meaning machine's prodigious powers of comprehension, improvisation and adaptation. Because it sustains difference, a translation paradigm is too blunt an instrument to grasp the diverse subjectivities and interfaces that come out of encounters sustained over time (Pratt 2010). Acts of translation and interpreting are never a mere matter of textual production (oral or written), but are consciously and unconsciously involved in the production and reproduction of 'cultured' meanings.…”

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Translation and Translanguaging in (Post)multilingual Societies

Lee¹

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Translation

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This is a summary of the research outcomes elaborated in detail in the following report, which was conducted as Phase Four of the Birmingham case study of AHRC-funded Translating Cultures project, 'Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse Wards in Four UK Cities'. Linguistic ethnographic research was conducted with an Advice and Advocacy worker in the Chinese Community Centre, Birmingham, in 2016. In the process of providing advice and advocacy services to people with a wide range of needs and requests for support, translation is a crucial dimension of exchange. Advice and advocacy in the Chinese Community Centre takes place in a translation zone, where biographies, histories, beliefs, values, and future trajectories of participants come into contact, and shape the interaction. The translation zone is a space which offers hope of being heard, hope that there will be a response from those in authority. The translator (mediator, advisor, advocate) offers the possibility that the individual will be heard by the powerful. The translator is frequently confronted with the necessity to make decisions and choices in translation. In some cases the translator makes ethical and ideological choices based on social justice for the client. Of secondary importance are questions of adherence to the letter of the law, or loyalty to the neutrality of the translation process. Translation in practice extends far beyond the transfer of meanings from one language to another. It includes translation of the complexity of government systems, with their unfamiliar terms and acronyms, and web of rules and regulations. A feature of translation is the co-construction, re-telling, and re-formulating of narrative. Every re-telling of a story is a translation. Narratives are recontextualised as they are retold, through the rearrangement of their structure, the substitution of some words, the addition of new elements, and the deletion of others. Discourse may be translated from one semiotic domain to another, 'resemiotized' as it shifts from context to context, from practice to practice. Often narratives told in one language, and in one mode, are resemiotized in another language, and in another mode. In the health and welfare benefits systems discourse may gain legitimacy as it is resemiotized, gaining status as it changes from a spoken to a written artefact. As artefacts gain symbolic and economic capital they may become sites of contestation and tension.

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Translation and Translanguaging in (Post)multilingual Societies

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2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Translation

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“…Though a controversial concept, it is useful for describing the two-way translation process postcolonial translations undergo. For a detailed examination of the concept and 'Writing Culture debate,' seeSturge 2007;Pratt et al 2010; Conway 2012. 3 For a thought-provoking study on how "'the translated' theories of translation" can manipulate researchers specifically in terms of naming of any kind of "textual entities"(Toury 2012, 22) in the context of intralingual translations, seeGüneş 2018.…”

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“Illusion” in the Postcolonial Context: Translation Studies Still in Need of a Metalanguage or the Understated Lack of Ontology of Science

Sayin

2019

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The purpose of this article 1 is to trace the recurrent metaphor of 'illusion' in translation studies. Starting with the pioneering work of Jiří Levý titled The Art of Translation (Umění překladu [1963]), the optical metaphors for the subject matter of studies on translation reflect an ambiguity about the ontology of translation studies. Yet, this ambiguity does not remain in the theoretical sphere and apparently, translates into the very practices of the publishers. Prefaces and critiques by publishing houses and the translators' footnotes as paratexts suggest an ever-increasing demand for translations that 'mirror' the source work. In this respect, the back translations of ethnographic works and semi-ethnographic travelogues provide fertile ground for exploring the boundaries of conceptual determinism in translation theory. After an inquiry on the shifting points of reference between translation norms and illusion, this descriptive study analyzes the Turkish translation of An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem (1915), a semi-ethnographic work pointing to other works of dubious origin. By considering this translation that is claimed by the publishing house to have been transferred almost unmediated as a product of back translation, the present study illustrates the underlying stance of the seemingly divergent points of view on designations and metaphors for translation (i.e., illusion) in terms of translation studies as an autonomous field of 'proper' social science. Hence, this study ultimately aims to reveal that the ambiguity about the concept of translation overlooks the underlying ontology(ies) of science of translation.

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Teachers as Cultural Translators

Wakholi

Wright

2017

Ways of Being in Teaching

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Translation StudiesForum: Cultural translation

Cited by 25 publications

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Translation and Translanguaging in (Post)multilingual Societies

Translation and Translanguaging in (Post)multilingual Societies

“Illusion” in the Postcolonial Context: Translation Studies Still in Need of a Metalanguage or the Understated Lack of Ontology of Science

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