Translation “Becoming Social”? Challenges for Babel's (Ivory) Tower
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The discussion of “turns” or “paradigmatic shifts” which
we can witness in the last few years in Translation Studies undoubtedly
testifies to the discipline’s increasing establishment and recognition
within the scientific community and of the increasing practice of a
transdisciplinary research. These shifts also include what has been called
the “sociological turn”, which comprises the cluster of questions dealing
not only with the networks of agents and agencies and the interplay of
their power relations, but also the social discursive practices which mould
the translation process and which decisively affect the strategies of a text
to be translated. This paper seeks to foreground some of the reasons which
conditioned the upcoming of this “sociological turn” and will critically
discuss if we can talk of a “turn” in its own right. A case study on the
issue of interpreting in the World Social Forum will illustrate the necessity
to broaden both traditional concepts, and, consequently, the domains of
teaching and research once we take a shift towards a social perspective on
the translatorial activity seriously.
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