scholarly journals Odgrywanie emigracji: tłumacze-poeci leningradzkiego podziemia, przeł. Edyta Kurzawa

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
Miriam Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Poetry Translation

Performance of Exile: Poet-Translators in the Leningrad Underground Literary translation during the Soviet period has been mostly analysed in terms of conforming to or resisting the dominant ideology. However, there were spaces where translation practices were to a certain extent free from this dichotomy, though excluded from the official literary field. The focus of the article is the particular condition of displacement or exile experienced by the underground poets who lived in Leningrad during the 1980s. The samizdat poet-translator plays the role of an exile, living on the fringes of the society and creating a network in the underground. The outcomes of this “performance of exile” are the translated texts, which show the handprints of the translator’s conditions. The article responds to Anthony Pym’s call for humanizing Translation History, and using the sociological tools developed in Translation Studies by Daniel Simeoni and Moira Inghilleri, it investigates the role of context, agent and text in the poetry translation practice of late samizdat.

scholarly journals Ideologically-adapted Translations: Challenge for Adequacy, Need for Retranslation

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Aida Salamat Suleymanova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Main Channel ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
The World

Translation has always been regarded as the main channel for disseminating works of art, literature and culture. Throughout the history, Azerbaijani writers and poets have contributed to the world literature, as well as benefitted from the best literary masterpieces of the world by means of translation. The art of translation is the credit to the interaction between nations, cultures, and literatures in particular. However, the path of historical development of the national translation studies and translation practice in Azerbaijan has not always been smooth. Azerbaijan has for 70 years been a part of the USSR, and consequently all fields of human life, as well as translation activity were under strict control of the central authority. Ideological censorship imposed on culture, art and literature, particularly, on the literary translation can still be sensed today. The aim of this paper is to study the ideological deviations, adaptations and modifications in fiction translation during the Soviet period in Azerbaijan and to show why retranslation of such works is necessary in our country.

scholarly journals From Translation Studies and audiovisual translation to media accessibility

Target ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Remael ◽  
Nina Reviers ◽  
Reinhild Vandekerckhove
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The One

Abstract Recent developments in Translation Studies and translation practice have not only led to a profusion of approaches, but also to the development of new text forms and translation modes. Media Accessibility, particularly audio description (AD) and subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH), is an example of such a ‘new’ mode. SDH has been evolving quickly in recent decades and new developments such as interlingual SDH and live subtitling with speech recognition bring it closer to established forms of translation and interpreting. On the one hand, interlingual SDH reintroduces Jakobson’s (1959) ‘translation proper’ while the use of speech recognition has led to the creation of a hybrid form that has affinities with both subtitling and interpreting. Audio description, for its part, cannot even be fitted into Jakobson’s ‘intersemiotic translation’ model since it involves translation from images into words. Research into AD is especially interesting since it rallies methods from adjacent disciplines, much in the same way that Holmes ([1972] 1988) described TS when it was a fledgling discipline. In 2008, Braun set out a research agenda for AD and the wealth of topics and research approaches dealt with in her article illustrate the immense complexity of this field and the work still to be done. Although AD and SDH research have developed at different paces and are concerned with different topics, converging trends do appear. Particularly the role of technology and the concept of multimodality seem to be key issues. This article aims to give an overview of current research trends in both these areas. It illustrates the possibilities of technology-driven research – particularly popular in SDH and live-subtitling research – while at the same time underlining the value of individual, human-driven approaches, which are still the main ‘modus operandi’ in the younger discipline of AD where much basic research is still required.

Taming iconicity in the Spanish and Italian translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Gonzálvez-García
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Selected Lines ◽  
Causative Constructions ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Secondary Predication

Abstract Building on Tabakowska’s (1993, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2013) full-blown defense of a cognitive linguistic approach to literary translation as well as on previous research dealing with the implementations of Construction Grammar(s) for translation studies (Szymańska 2011a, 2011b; Serbina 2015), this paper critically examines the role of iconicity in selected lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnets capitalizing on the passage of Time-Death and their corresponding translations in present-day Spanish and Italian. Specifically, drawing on Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg 2006) and Contrastive Construction Grammar (Boas 2010a; Boas & Gonzálvez-García 2014), I focus on instances of secondary predication with verbs of sensory perception, causative constructions and aspectual constructions iconically connected with the above-mentioned motif and demonstrate that iconicity emerges as a very useful communicative ‘filter’ that can help to minimize any undesirable arbitrariness which may obscure the semantico-pragmatic interpretation of the source text and/or its rendering into the target text.

scholarly journals Non-linearity and/in Translation: On Complex Strategies in the Ukrainian Rendition of Joyce’s Novel-Hypertext “Ulysses”

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (40) ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
Mariia Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Full Article ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Culture Development

[full article and abstract in English] By positing that translation is the main manifestation of “interliterarity” (in D. Ďurišin’s conceptualization) that brings to the fore the meta-creational capacities of the target literature, the present article attempts (1) to study a translatability potential of a hypertext as based on the Ukrainian translation of James Joyce’s novel-hypertext Ulysses, and (2) to justify the role of its reception in the Ukrainian literary field as a force for language and culture development. The synthesis of a “verbal music” with a mosaic of texts and narratives – imitated, playfully transformed or directly quoted – is claimed to be a key source of hypertextuality in Ulysses. In this line of reasoning, the paper particularly focuses on (1) the role of both overcoming cultural barriers and leaving a space for reader’s co-creativity while transferring of intertexts; (2) the approaches to interpretation of parody and pastiche as forms of writing-as-translation practice; (3) J. Wawrzycka’s concept regarding translation of musicalized fiction as trans-semantification, i. e. attending to literariness of the text; (4) the idea of translator’s visibility attributed to the Ukrainian re-languaging of musicalized fiction.

The Role of Corpora in Investigating the Linguistic Behaviour of Professional Translators

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Baker
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Individual Source ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

The Translational English Corpus held at the Centre for Translation Studies at UMIST is a computerised collection of authentic, published translations into English from a variety of source languages and by a wide range of professional translators. This resource provides the basis for investigating a range of issues related to the distinctive nature of translated text, the style of individual translators, the impact of individual source languages on the patterning of English, the impact of text type on translation strategies, and other issues of interest to both the translation scholar and the linguist. Most importantly, this concrete resource allows us to develop a framework for investigating the validity of theoretical statements about the nature of translation with reference to actual translation practice.

Game localisation as software-mediated cultural experience: Shedding light on the changing role of translation in intercultural communication in the digital age

Multilingua ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minako O’Hagan
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Cross Lingual

AbstractIn this rapidly technologising age translation practice has been undergoing formidable changes with the implication that there is a need to expand the disciplinary scope of translation studies. Taking the case of game localisation this article problematises the role of translation as intercultural communication by focusing on cultural elements of video games. Game localisation evolved in response to the game industry’s need to distribute game software in territories other than the country of origin whereby adjusting games technically, linguistically and culturally to suit the requirements of the target market. Despite the importance of this cross-lingual and cross-cultural operation for the industry’s success in the global market, game localisation remains an underreported area of research in translation studies. A critical analysis of game localisation as generating software-mediated cultural experiences reveals intercultural communication issues due to the nature of modern digital games as technological and cultural artefacts. By combining translation studies perspectives and the theoretical framework of critical theory of technology, the author argues that game localisation is eliciting something new about the role of translation in forging intercultural communication in the digital age.

scholarly journals Altered States: Translation and Minority Languages

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Cronin
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Linguistic Complexity ◽  
Language Bias ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
Translation Practice

Abstract Altered States: Translation and Minority Languages — The linguistic complexity of Europe is often ignored in political accounts of its translation practice. In particular, the historical experience and contemporary fate of European minority languages are overlooked in assessing the translation strategies available to speakers of minority languages. The problem partly results from a failure to think creatively about definitions of minority languages in a translation context. This context includes the dimension of new technologies which may lead to a new reclassification of languages in Europe and elsewhere. The role of translation in the case of one European minority language, Irish Gaelic, is considered in terms of the dilemmas faced by lesser used languages. Translation is both welcomed and feared. The options available to translators in minority languages differ crucially from those on offer to translators in majority languages. These differences need to be reflected in the theoretical discourse on translation in minority languages but this is not often the case. Furthermore, translation studies as a discipline rarely reflects on its own majority language bias, embedded in the structures of the disciplinary dissemination of knowledge. Minority languages are not only essential to a diversity that sustains the fragile ecosystem of human culture but they also raise questions that lie at the heart of translation studies as an area of intellectual inquiry.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION OF WORKS OF KAZAKH POETS AND WRITERS INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Keruen ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.O. Shagimoldina ◽  
◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Domestic Literature ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The Republic

The article examines the general and specific aspects of the issues of literary translation from Kazakh literature into a foreign one, the possibilities of bringing the translated text closer to the original, achievements and shortcomings in this area, their causes. The question of observing a literary linguistic text and reproducing it in another language has long attracted the attention of translation practitioners and theorists, and various, sometimes contradictory, scientific views on this problem have been expressed. The issues of translation of the works of Kazakh writers into Russian and other languages are studied by philologists of Kazakhstan for a long period of time. However, every year there is an increasing need to systematize the available translations and publish generalizing studies. The issues of translation of literary texts of Kazakh writers into Russian and other languages are studied by philologists of the country for a long period of time. However, this topic is still relevant, since the problem of translating literary texts in Kazakh translation studies requires research. Literary translation is considered one of the most difficult types of translation and is also a kind of word-making art. Thus, the relevance of this article is due to the need to systematize the history of the formation and development of Kazakh translation studies. Among Western countries, France, Germany, Hungary, and the United States show the greatest interest in domestic literature. Among the countries of the foreign East are Turkey, the Republic of Korea, India, Pakistan, Iran, China, Mongolia. The largest number of researchers of the creativity of Kazakh writers and poets are represented by France, Germany, Pakistan, and Turkey. Artistic translations preserve and transmit the literary heritage of the post-Soviet period, which includes a variety of languages, traditions, and customs, and are also a connecting bridge between countries, transmitting the richness of culture and mentality of peoples. In fact, the artistic style is the area of functioning of various functional styles: conversational, official-business, journalistic, even scientific and technical. It is the dynamics of the forms of existence of various linguistic units and the alternation of forms that is particularly difficult in artistic translation.

The “technological turn” in translation studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Emergent Property ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Change Of Direction ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Striking Change ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theoretical Apparatus ◽  
Theoretical Developments

Abstract For over two decades, Translation Studies (TS) scholars have argued that the discipline is going through a ‘technological turn’. This paper critically questions whether TS has already completed this “paradigmatic” or “disciplinary turn,” “a clearly visible and striking” change of direction that can “perhaps even [amount] to a redefinition of the subject concerned” (Snell-Hornby 2010, 366). After a revision of the notion of ‘turn’ in TS, it will be argued that the ‘technological’ one has been completed and it can, in fact, be assessed “after it is already complete” (ibid). It will be shown how the emergence and consolidation of this turn were “driven not by theoretical developments in cognate areas of inquiry,” but are an “emergent property from new forms of translation practice” (Cronin 2010, 1). As a consequence, it has permeated TS across its different subdisciplines, both in their theoretical apparatus and/or in their research methodologies. In this examination, the picture that emerges is that translation, across TS, has in fact been redefined in one way or another as an instance of “human-computer interaction,” even in contexts such as literary translation.

Benjamin and Borges

Babel ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Rasool Moradi Joz ◽  
Hossein Pirnajmuddin
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Bear Witness

Abstract Borges’ works deconstruct the time lag conceived in the binaries such as the work’s production vs. its criticism, the original text vs. its translation, the source text vs. the derivative nature of the target text, and reality vs. fiction. Benjamin, as Borges’ near contemporary, echoes rather the same idea in his post-Nietzschean philosophy of translation. Focusing on the similarities between the views of Benjamin on translation and those of Borges as reflected in his stories as well as his essays, particularly in his well-received essay on translations of Thousand and One Nights and in his meta-fictional short story ‘Pierre Menard’: Author of the Quixote, this paper aims at bringing the two scholars together in the context of literary translation studies in the postmodern era, where intersemiotic and intertextual collage (in Eco’s terminology) and mimicry bear witness to the claim that translation, like other intertextual enterprises, is neither inferior to the other intertextual undertakings such as writing, nor is it detached from language as post-structurally conceived. Furthermore, another core objective of this study is to show how Borges’ ‘Menard’ heralds and truly represents the translation theories built upon the underlying assumptions of deconstructionism since the 1980s. It is concluded that as far as postmodern and poststructuralist theories are concerned, both Borges’ and Benjamin’s works had predicted the future of literary and translation theories in which the decisive role of translation and translator in the construction of culture and identities cannot be denied.

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