Translation and affect. Essays on sticky affects and translational affective labour

The multimodal translation workshop as a method of creative inquiry

“…This expanded attention to affect parallels to some extent Koskinen's (2020, 49) application of Martin and White's (2005) appraisal theory in the analysis of affect in linguistic translation, which also builds on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics approach at the interpersonal and textual levels. Koskinen (2020) acknowledges the embodied nature of translatorial decisions and its semiotic impact at the verbal level (for example in terms of interpreters' codification of neutrality or trustworthiness). She further recognizes that "[b]oth space and place, and our affective relations to them, are entangled with time and keep on evolving" (2020,119).…”

“…Through listening to acousmatic sound, we seek to isolate this 'low level' perception as distinct from learned associations with 'high-level' valence. Lebrecht et al's (2012) work focussed on the affective valence of visual stimuli, while Koskinen (2020) applied this construct to examine its role in the translation of linguistic texts. In this paper we are less concerned with affective valence and more interested in examining the experiential, multimodal and corporeal extension of affective perception in the act of listening as a means of foregrounding the experiential nature of an aesthetic text in the translation process.…”

The formation of translation collectivities in Italian queer feminist activist scenarios

“…According to Cvetkovich (2007), 'affect' is an umbrella term which also includes words such as 'feeling' and 'emotion. ' Following Koskinen (2020), I prefer to use the term 'affect, ' which I have also employed in past publications, as it is more specific than the more general term 'emotion, ' which has also been conceived in various studies as separate from the term 'affect' (Cvetkovich 2007). According to these studies, while emotions are understood "as personal experiences and states, like anger, disgust, fear, happiness and sadness, " affects are "the forces that precede, produce, and inform such experiences" (Shaviro 2016).…”

“…My analysis of affect starts from Ahmed's ( 2004) assumption because Ahmed's thought was also inspirational for some Italian queer feminist collectives, as outlined above. Given that my area of research is queer feminist activist translation, which can be considered part of politicised and sociological approaches to translation, I follow in the footsteps of Kaisa Koskinen's work, which belongs to the field of sociological studies of translation (Koskinen 2012(Koskinen , 2020. Alongside Koskinen's study (2020), I will mention some other sociological, politicised and feminist studies of translation here that have applied the notion of affect to translation, acknowledging the fact that these studies are still scarce in comparison to the majority of research on affect which has been carried out within cognitive studies and where the most frequently used term is 'emotion' rather than 'affect' (see, for example, Hubscher-Davidson 2017 and Rojo 2017).…”

“…Notably, they also use the word 'affect. ' Given these premises, this article draws on sociological theories of affect and emotions (Gregg and Seigworth 2010;Massumi 2002;Ahmed 2004) applied to translation (see Koskinen 2020), and on theories of translation and performativity (Berman 2014;Robinson 2003, among others) to discuss the affective aspect of translation in this scenario, and its performative force, which lies at the origin of the formation of the translation collective Onna Pas.…”