Translation and Conflict

A Narrative Account
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-38396-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Translation and Conflict demonstrates that translators and interpreters participate in circulating as well as resisting the narratives that create the intellectual and moral environment for violent conflict. Drawing on narrative theory and using numerous examples from historical and contemporary conflicts, the author provides an original and coherent model of analysis that pays equal attention to micro and macro aspects of the circulation of narratives in translation, to translation and interpreting, and to questions of dominance and resistance.

The study is particularly significant at this juncture of history, with the increased interest in the positioning of translators in politically sensitive contexts, the growing concern with translators’ and interpreters’ divided loyalties in settings such as Guantanamo, Iraq, Kosovo, and other arenas of conflict, and the emergence of several activist communities of translators and interpreters with highly politicized agendas of their own, including Babels, Translators for Peace, Tlaxcala and ECOS.

Including further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter, Translation and Conflict will be of interest to students of translation, intercultural studies and sociology as well as the reader interested in the study of social and political movements.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Mona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Figures 1. Introduction 1.1 Translation, Power, Conflict 1.2 Why Narrative? 1.3 Overview of Chapters Core References Further Reading 2. Introducing Narrative Core References Further Reading 3. A Typology of Narrative Core References Further Reading 4. Understanding How Narratives Work: Features of Narrativity I Core References Further Reading 5. Understanding How Narratives Work: Features of Narrativity II Core References Further Reading 6. Framing Narratives in Translation Core References Further Reading 7. Assessing Narratives: The Narrative Paradigm 7.5 Concluding Remarks Core References Further Reading Glossary Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mona Baker is Professor of Translation Studies and Director of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester. She is author of In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation; Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Founding Editor of The Translator, and Vice President of the International Association of Translation and Cultural Studies.