Translation

N Sakai - Theory, Culture & Society, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Translation is an act of articulation that takes place in the social topos of difference or
incommensurability. The topos of difference, to which translation is a response, is anterior to …

How do we count a language? Translation and discontinuity

N Sakai - Translation Studies, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Can translation be regarded merely as a bridging of a gap between national languages? Is it
not an act with which to produce difference, inscribe borders and thereby identify the unity of …

Translational turn

D Bachmann-Medick - Handbook of translation studies, 2013 - torrossa.com
The globalization of society demands increased attention to processes of mediation and
transfer*–between cultures, religions, social groups–in terms of the interactions that make up …

The space of translation

WF Hanks - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper explores the space of translation spanning cross-cultural description and the
verbal act of rendering in one language what is expressed in another. We make a three-way …

Reconceptualizing translation theory: integrating non-Western thought about translation

M Tymoczko - Translating Others (Volume 1), 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
In Eurocentric tradition most statements about translation that date before the demise of
positivism are relatively useless for current theorizing, because most encode the dominant …

Cultural perspectives on translation

A Brisset - International Social Science Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The idea of culture is closely linked to translation, but it has evolved a great deal since
translation studies emerged as an autonomous discipline. Initially culture was understood as …

Moving across languages and cultures in translation as intercultural communication

J House - Translational action and intercultural communication, 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
In this paper I want to do three things: first, I want to briefly discuss the roles that cultural
studies and linguistic approaches to translation play in translation studies. I will argue that …

Introduction: The translational turn

D Bachmann-Medick - Translation studies, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The turn to ''translation''Áa ''translational turn''? If the horizon of translation is expanding and
differentiating, does this alone imply a ''translational turn''in the humanities? Certainly it is not …

Modes of translating culture: ethnography and translation

C Valero-Garcés - Meta, 1995 - erudit.org
The fields of Translation and Cultural Studies can be seen as encircled within an
interdisciplinary framework with fluid boundaries. Focusing my attention on the phrase" the …

Translating worlds: The epistemological space of translation

WF Hanks, C Severi - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Translation has played an important but equivocal role in the history of anthropology and
linguistics. At least since Saussure and Boas, languages have been seen as systems whose …