Translation and Global Spaces of Power

240 Pages·2018·1.001 MB·English

by  Stefan Baumgarten (editor), Jordi Cornellà-Detrell (editor)

Translation and Global Spaces
of Power
TRANSLATION, INTERPRETING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN A
GLOBALISED WORLD
Series Editors: Philipp Angermeyer, York University, Canada and Katrijn
Maryns, Ghent University, Belgium
Translation, Interpreting and Social Justice in a Globalised World is an
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globalisation, migration and asylum. Books in the series will discuss how
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between scholars and professionals working in translation and interpret-
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entities, as well as informal, community-based translation and interpret-
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• Access to democracy and citizenship
• Interactions with business and private-sector institutions
• The media and minority-language broadcasting and publishing
• Ethical and political considerations in translation
• Cultural translation
• Translation and language rights
• Translation and intercultural relations and conflict
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TRANSLATION, INTERPRETING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN A
GLOBALISED WORLD: 3
Translation and Global
Spaces of Power
Edited by
Stefan Baumgarten and
Jordi Cornellà-Detrell
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol • Blue Ridge Summit
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/BAUMGA1817
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Names: Baumgarten, Stefan, editor. | Cornellà-Detrell, Jordi, editor.
Title: Translation and Global Spaces of Power/Edited by Stefan Baumgarten and
Jordi Cornellà-Detrell.
Description: Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters, 2018. |
Series: Translation, Interpreting and Social Justice in a Globalised World: 3 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018026960| ISBN 9781788921817 (hbk : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781788921800 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781788921848 (kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Translating and interpreting--Social aspects. |
Intercultural communication.
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Contents
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xii
General Introduction 1
Stefan Baumgarten and Jordi Cornellà-Detrell
Part 1: Translation and the Spaces of Power
1 Translation and the Economies of Power 11
Stefan Baumgarten and Jordi Cornellà-Detrell
2 Bloodless Academicians and the Power of Translation Studies 27
Agnieszka Pantuchowicz
3 Turning Minorities and Majorities Upside Down 39
Luc van Doorslaer
Part 2: Domination and Hegemony in History
4 Where the Devil Sneaks In: Power and Agency in Radical
Bible Translation 59
Karen Bennett
5 Challenging the State: Subversive Welsh Translators in Britain
in the 1790s 74
Marion Löffler
6 The Greek–Turkish Population Exchange: Reverberations of
a Historical Experience Through Translation 90
Maria Sidiropoulou and Özlem Berk Albachten
7 Translation Choices as Sites of State Power: Gender and
Habitus in Bestsellers in Franco’s Spain 109
Cristina Gómez Castro
Part 3: Media Translation in the Global Digital Economy
8 Translation and Mass Communication in the Age of
Globalisation 127
José Lambert
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9 Power Complexity in Translated Political Discourse 144
Christina Schäffner
10 Proximisation Amidst Liquidity: Osama bin Laden’s Death
Translated 161
M. Cristina Caimotto
Part 4: Commercial Hegemonies in the Global Political Economy
11 Translation and Interpreting for the Media in the English
Premier League 179
Roger Baines
12 How Global Conglomerates Influence Translation Practice:
Film Title Translation in Turkey 194
Jonathan Ross
13 Translated Chinese Autobiographies and the Power of
Habitus in the British Literary Field 211
Pei Meng
Conclusion: Translation, Power and Social Justice 224
Stefan Baumgarten and Jordi Cornellà-Detrell
Index 233
Contributors
Editors
Stefan Baumgarten is Lecturer in German Language Studies at Jacobs
University in Bremen, Germany. His current research centres on critical
translation theories and the role of translation as an ideological practice. He
is co-editor with Jordi Cornellà-Detrell of the special issue ‘Translation in
Times of Technocapitalism’ of the journal Target (2017) and of Trans lating
the European House: Discourse, Ideology and Politics – Selected Papers
by Christina Schäffner, with C. Gagnon (Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016). Some of his recent journal articles include ‘The crooked timber of
self-reflexivity: Translation and ideology in the end times’ ( Perspectives,
2016), ‘Translation and hegemonic knowledge under advanced capitalism’
(Target, 2017) and ‘Adorno refracted: German critical theory in the neo-
liberal world order’ (Key Cultural Texts in Translation, 2018).
Jordi Cornellà-Detrell is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the Univer-
sity of Glasgow. His research interests focus on censorship and translation
during Franco’s regime, the Spanish post-war publishing industry and
multilingual literature. He has published several articles, including ‘The
afterlife of Francoist cultural policies: Censorship and translation in the
Catalan and Spanish literary market’ (Hispanic Research Journal, 2013),
and two monographs: El plurilingüisme en la literatura catalana (Vitel·la,
2014) and Literature as a Response to Cultural and Political Repression
in Franco’s Catalonia (Tamesis, 2011). Together with Stefan Baumgarten,
he co-edited the special issue of Target entitled ‘Translation in Times of
Technocapitalism’ (2017).
Authors
Özlem Berk Albachten is Professor in the Department of Translation and
Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Her primary area of
research has concentrated on Turkish translation history and intralingual
translation, focusing mainly on issues such as modernisation, identity
formation and cultural policies. Her more recent research interests include
translingual writing, Turkish women translators and autobiography/life
writing. She is the author of Translation and Westernization in Turkey:
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From the 1840s to the 1980s (2004) and Kuramlar Işığında Açıklamalı
Çeviribilim Terimcesi (Theoretical Translation Terminology, 2005) and
the co-editor of two forthcoming books on retranslation to be published
by Routledge and Springer.
Roger Baines is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and French at the
University of East Anglia, UK. He has published on sport and transla-
tion, stage translation, translator training, subtitling taboo language, and
personal and ritual insults in French, and is the author of a monograph
on the work of Pierre Mac Orlan. He co-edited Staging and Perform-
ing Translation: Text and Theatre Practice (2011). Recent publications
include: ‘Employability as an ethos in translator and interpreter training’
(with Cuminatto and Drugan, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer);
‘Subtitling taboo language: Can the cues of register and genre be used to
affect audience experience?’ (Meta, 2015); and ‘Translation, globalization
and the elite migrant athlete’ (The Translator, 2013).
Karen Bennett is Assistant Professor in Translation at Nova University
in Lisbon and a researcher with the Centre for English, Translation and
Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), where she coordinates the Transla-
tionality strand. Within Translation Studies, she is interested in translation
history, the transmission of knowledge, performativity, multilingualism,
linguistic hybridity and (inter-)semiotics. Her most recent publications
include a special issue of The Translator (2017) entitled ‘International
English and Translation’, co-edited with Rita Queiroz de Barros; ‘Transla-
tion and the desacralization of the western world: From performativity
to representation’ (Alif, 2018); and ‘Foucault in English: The politics of
exoticization’ (Target, 2017).
M. Cristina Caimotto is Assistant Professor of English Language and
Translation at the University of Turin, Italy. Her research interests include
Translation Studies, Political Discourse and Environmental Discourse. She
is a member of the editorial board of Comunicazione Politica, Il Mulino
and Synergies Italie. Recent publications include: ‘Political and ideological
translation practice: Italian and English extracts of Hitler’s Mein Kampf’
(in Translation und ‘Drittes Reich’: Menschen – Entscheidungen – Folgen,
2016, co-authored with S. Baumgarten) and ‘The alter-globalist counter-
discourse in European rhetoric and translation: Women’s rights at the
European Parliament’ (in Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe,
from the Enlightenment to the EU, 2017, co-authored with R. Raus).
Luc van Doorslaer is Chair Professor for Translation Studies at the Uni-
versity of Tartu (Estonia), director of the Centre for Translation Studies
at KU Leuven (CETRA, Belgium) and Vice-President of the European
Society for Translation Studies. He is a Research Associate at Stellenbosch
Contributors ix
University (South Africa). Together with Yves Gambier, he is the editor
of the Translation Studies Bibliography and the four volumes of the
Handbook of Translation Studies (2010–13). Recent edited books include
The Known Unknowns of Translation Studies (2014), Interconnecting
Translation Studies and Imagology (2016) and Border Crossings: Trans-
lation Studies and other Disciplines (2016). His main research interests
are the institutionalisation of Translation Studies and the links between
journalism, ideology, imagology and translation.
Cristina Gómez Castro is Lecturer of English at the University of León,
having previously taught at the University of Cantabria, Spain. Her main
research interests include theoretical and methodological approaches to
translation, the interaction between ideology, translation and gender and
the way (self)-censorship and manipulation impinge on the rewritings of
texts. Currently, she is working on the reproduction and representation of
identities transmitted by North American television series in translation.
She has extensively published on translation and censorship and is an active
member of the TRACE (TRAnslation & CEnsorship) research team.
José Lambert has been Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(Belgium, 1970–2006), at the Universidade Federal Santa Catarina
(2011–15) and at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (2015–17), Brazil.
He has played a key role in the birth and dissemination of Translation
Studies; milestones include organising the historical conference ‘Litera-
ture and Translation: New Perspectives in Literary Studies’ (Leuven,
1976), co-founding the journal Target (1989), founding and directing the
Leuven Centre for the Study of Translation and Cultures (CETRA) (1989),
becoming the first Vice-President of the European Society for Translation
Studies (1992) and co-founding the Translation Studies Bibliography. He
has published 150 articles and edited several volumes in Comparative
Literature and Cultural and Translation Studies.
Marion Löffler has lived in Wales since 1994. Having gained her doctorate
at Humboldt University, Berlin, she was appointed a Research Fellow at
the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies,
Aberystwyth, where she contributed to the pioneering projects ‘A Social
History of the Welsh Language’ and ‘Wales and the French Revolution’.
She now lectures in Welsh History at Cardiff University’s School of History,
Archaeology and Religion. Her latest volumes are Welsh Responses to the
French Revolution: Press and Public Discourse, 1789–1802 (2012) and
Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales, 1790–1806 (2014).
Pei Meng is currently Lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at
Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China.
She obtained her MA and PhD in Translation Studies at the University of
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Birmingham and the University of Edinburgh. She has carried out research
and written on the sociology of translation, audiovisual translation and
the discourses of literary reviewing. Other interests include stylistic ap-
proaches to translation and the translation of children’s literature. She
has also translated two English biographies into Chinese: Nine Lives of
William Shakespeare and Lincoln and Shakespeare.
Agnieszka Pantuchowicz teaches literature, gender studies and translation
at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.
She has edited several volumes and published numerous articles on literary
criticism, on theoretical aspects of translation, as well as on cultural and
ideological dimensions of translation in the Polish context. She is engaged
in research within the field of gender studies and the work of contem-
porary Polish women writers. Her research interests are translation and
cultural studies, comparative literature and feminist criticism.
Jonathan Ross studied German and Politics at the University of Edinburgh
and completed his doctorate in East German Literature at King’s College
London. He is now based at the Department of Translation and Interpret-
ing Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, where he teaches both practical
and research-oriented courses. His research interests include telephone
interpreting, community interpreting in Turkey, audio-visual transla-
tion, the translation of songs and the translation of film titles. Articles
by him have appeared in The Translator, Target and Across Languages
and Cultures. He has also published numerous Turkish–English transla-
tions, including eight books and several short stories and articles, and has
produced two films.
Christina Schäffner is Professor Emerita at Aston University, Birmingham.
Until her retirement in September 2015 she was the Head of Translation
Studies at Aston, teaching courses in translation studies, interpreting, and
supervising masters dissertations and PhD students. Her main research
interests are: political discourse in translation, news translation, metaphor
in translation and translation didactics, and she has published widely on
these topics. Major publications include Political Discourse, Media and
Translation (edited with S. Bassnett, 2010), Translation Research and
Interpreting Research: Traditions, Gaps and Synergies (2004) and Politics
as Text and Talk. Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse (edited with
P. Chilton, 2002).
Maria Sidiropoulou is Professor of Translation Studies and Chair of the
Department of English Language and Literature (School of Philosophy),
at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was Director
of the Interuniversity and Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee of
the Translation–Translatology MA Programme (2009–11) and Director