Overview
- Draws on a series of concepts from translation studies and social history to offer a new approach to studying translation and interpreting historically
- Tells the story of Eurocentrism in translation history, explaining its origins in terms that do not assume static cultural differences
- Forges new approaches to the study of trust and translation in literary history, cultural history, translation studies, applied linguistics, ethnography, and history of science
Part of the book series: Translation History (TRHI)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the authors develop an approach to translation that speaks to historians of literature, language, culture, society, science, translation and interpreting. By examining theories of trust from sociological, philosophical, and historical studies, and with reference to interdisciplinarity, the authors outline a methodology for approaching translation history and intercultural mediation from three discrete, concurrent perspectives on trust and translation: the interpersonal, the institutional and the regime-enacted. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation studies, as well as historians working on mediation and cultural transfer.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Andrea Rizzi is a Cassamarca Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Birgit Lang is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Anthony Pym is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Distinguished Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain, and Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What is Translation History?
Book Subtitle: A Trust-Based Approach
Authors: Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym
Series Title: Translation History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20099-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20098-5Published: 07 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20099-2Published: 22 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-8701
Series E-ISSN: 2523-871X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 140
Topics: Translation, Translation Studies, Literary History, Social History, Cultural Theory