Identity and Status in the Translational Professions: 32 (Benjamins Current Topics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027202516 ISBN 13: 9789027202512

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2011

Synopsis

This volume contributes to the emerging research on the social formation of translators and interpreters as specific occupational groups. Despite the rising academic interest in sociological perspectives in Translation Studies, relatively little research has so far been devoted to translators’ social background, status struggles and sense of self. The articles assembled here zoom in on the “groups of individuals” who perform the complex translating and/or interpreting tasks, thereby creating their own space of cultural production. Cutting across varied translatorial and geographical arenas, they reflect a view of the interrelatedness between the macro-level question of professional status and micro-level aspects of practitioners’ identity. Addressing central theoretical issues relating to translators’ habitus and role perception, as well as methodological challenges of using qualitative and quantitative measures, this endeavor also contributes to the critical discourse on translators’ agency and ethics and to questions of reformulating their social role.The contributions to this volume were originally published in Translation and Interpreting Studies 4:2 (2009) and 5:1 (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027202516
• ISBN 13: 9789027202512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Sela-Sheffy Rakefet, Shlesinger † Miriam