Contesting Translation

Studies in honour of Mona Baker
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-87141-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Contesting Translation, a celebratory edited volume, honours Professor Mona Baker, one of the most influential scholars in translation, interpreting and intercultural studies. The eleven original chapters were especially commissioned from scholars who have developed enduring personal, professional and intellectual connections with Baker through her teaching and research.

The chapters are framed by a reflective introduction, and clustered into three inter-related sections: ‘Trajectories and concepts’, ‘Narratives and corpora’, and ‘Activism and solidarity’, which together map the routes and approaches that characterise Baker’s oeuvre. Individual chapters offer studies on topics ranging from literary translation, knowledge translation, journalistic translation and museum translation to political and aspirational translation. Studies are situated in diverse temporal and geographical environments, extending from the seventeenth-century Low Countries to present-day Palestine. Chapters resonate with each other through critical scholarly engagement with the history, discourse, and politics of translation, and through a shared interest in the significance of the stories we tell each other and ourselves.

Relevant for students new to translation and interpreting studies as well as established and emerging scholars more familiar with the field’s contours, Contesting Translation is a landmark contribution to a dynamic discipline that has itself been significantly shaped by one of its most forthright and creative scholars.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buts, Jan

Sadler, Neil

Harding, Sue-Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of contributors

1. Framing Baker: A partial portrait

Neil Sadler, Sue-Ann Harding, and Jan Buts

Part I: Trajectories and concepts

2. From style, through ethics, to the political: a journey with Mona Baker

Gabriela Saldanha

3. Mona Baker’s intellectual contributions to a theory of translation as a social, cultural and epistemological phenomenon

Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi

4. Conceptual narratives of knowledge translation and epistemicide: between translation studies and the cultural history of science

John Ødemark

Part II: Narratives and corpora

5. Intertextual narrativity and the translation of knowledge in the science museum: the case of extinction and climate change

Robert Neather

6. Networked narrative: The dedications of the Jesuit translator Franciscus de Smidt

Theo Hermans

7. Of heroes and terrorists. Narratives, categorization, corpora and translation

Federico Zanettin

8. How different are Chinese translations of political discourse by ChatGPT and by human translators? A case study of explicitation as a translation universal

Tao Li

9. Power, biopolitics and women’s bodies: A corpus-based study of texts about women’s reproductive health and their Korean translations

Kyung Hye Kim

Part III: Activism and solidarity

10. Name the narrator: examining literary translators as visible activists for translation

Caroline Summers

11. Sit-down comedy and writing back to authoritative religious discourse in Egyptian digital citizen media

Randa Aboubakr

12. ‘Aspirational’ and ‘prefigurative translation’ reconciled: revisiting the time, space and language of solidarity in the global justice movement

Julie Boéri

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Buts is Associate Professor at the Sustainable Health Unit, University of Oslo.

Sue-Ann Harding is Professor in Translation and Intercultural Studies at Queen’s University Belfast.

Neil Sadler is Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Leeds.