Translation as Intervention

by Munday, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780826495204
• ISBN10: 0826495206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book examines the role of the translator as a politically active one, with the potential to change the outcome of political, religious and social events. The contributors examine the effect of translation and intervention in a range of issues and case studies including the role of translation in the South African courtroom, Spanish religious publishing, Chinese rhetoric, and Arabic political interviews and speeches. The result is a comprehensive examination of this key question in translation studies: how can the translator avoid becoming a participant in the discourse he or she translates?Intervention in Translating and Interpreting is a fascinating collection of essays discussing this most central of topics in translation studies. It will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching in this area.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Comment	p. vi
Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
The translator as an intervenient being	p. 1
The translator's intervention through voice selection	p. 18
The translation of Dalit literature into English	p. 38
Towards 'representational justice' in translation practice	p. 54
The interventionist role of (re)contextualization in translation	p. 71
Intervention at text and discourse levels in the translation of 'orate' languages	p. 84
Intervention in court interpreting: South Africa	p. 97
Intervention through computer-assisted translation: the case of the EU	p. 118
Renewing a literary culture through translation: poetry in post-war Italy	p. 138
Index	p. 161
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