Translation solutions for many languages : histories of a flawed dream

Author

• Pym, Anthony

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Language

English

ISBN

9781474261104

Series

Bloomsbury advances in translation series

Subject(s)

• TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING--STUDY AND TEACHING
• TRANSLATING SERVICES

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 263-278. Index: p. 279-281

Abstract

Many "translation solutions" (often called "procedures," "techniques," or "strategies") have been proposed over the past 50 years or so in French, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Czech, and Slovak. This book analyzes, criticizes and compares them, proposing a new list of solutions that can be used in training translators to work between many languages. The book also traces out an entirely new history of contemporary translation studies, showing for example how the Russian tradition was adapted in China, how the impact of transformational linguistics was resisted, and how scholarship has developed an intercultural metalanguage over and above the concerns of specific national languages. The book reveals the intensely political nature of translation theory, even in its most apparently technical aspects. The lists were used to advance the agendas of not just linguistic nationalisms but also state regimes - this is a history in which Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all played roles, Communist propaganda and imperialist evangelism were both legitimized, Ukrainian advances in translation theory were forcefully silenced in the 1930s, the Cold War both stimulated the application of transformational grammar and blocked news of Russian translation theory, French translation theory was conscripted into the agenda of Japanese exceptionalism, and much else.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xvii, 281 p.

Dimension

24 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Charles Bally and the Missing Equivalents --
2. Vinay and Darbelnet Hit the Road --
3. A Tradition in Russian and Environs --
4. A Loh Road to China --
5. Spontaneous Combustion in Central Europe? --
6. Cold War Dalliance with Transformational Grammar --
7. Forays into Romance --
8. Meanwhile Back in German --
9. Disciplinary Corrections --
10. Going Japanese --
11. The Proof of the Pudding is in the Classroom --
12. A Typology of Translation Solutions for Many Languages --
Postscript: The Flaw in the Dream

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