Translating Values: Evaluative Concepts in Translation

✍ Scribed by Piotr Blumczynski, John Gillespie (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection explores the central importance of values and evaluative concepts in cross-cultural translational encounters. Written by a group of international scholars from a diverse range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the chapters in this book consider what it means to translate cultures by examining core values and their relationship to key evaluative concepts (such as authenticity, clarity, home, honour, or justice) and how they influence the complex multidimensional process of translation. This book will be of interest to academics studying cross-cultural and inter-linguistic interactions, to translators and interpreters, students of translation and of modern languages, and all those dealing with multilingual and multicultural settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Who Wants Walls? An Ethnolinguistics of Insides and Outsides....Pages 11-36
Emotional Valuation: Values and Emotions in Translation....Pages 37-56
Alternative Evaluative Concepts to the Trinity of Bible Translation....Pages 57-80
Submission and Its Conflicting Value Systems: A Case Study....Pages 81-99
Re-examining Islamic Evaluative Concepts in English Translations of the Quran: Friendship, Justice and Retaliation....Pages 101-122
English Evaluative Concepts in a Contemporary Devotional Christian Text. A Comparative Study of Dzienniczek by Faustyna Kowalska and Its English Translation....Pages 123-144
Clarity, Soberness, Chastity: Politics of Simplicity in Nineteenth-Century Translation....Pages 145-167
Letters to Italy: Translation and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Ireland....Pages 169-189
Improving the Public: Translating Protestant Values through Nineteenth-Century Bilingual Print Journalism in South Asia....Pages 191-211
Translating Protestant Christianity into China—Questions of Indigenization and Sinification in a Globalised World....Pages 213-235
Translating the Past: The Moral Universe of Calderón’s Painter of Dishonour ....Pages 237-259
Beckett as Translator of Beckett: The Transmission of (Anti-?) Religious Concepts....Pages 261-277
Vulnerable Values: The Polish Dom (‘House, Home’) in English Translation....Pages 279-302
Smart Dreamers: Translation and the Culture of Speculative Fiction....Pages 303-325
Translation as an Evaluative Concept....Pages 327-349
Back Matter....Pages 351-363

✦ Subjects

Translation;Social Anthropology;Cultural Anthropology;Translation Studies