Translation and Power

✍ Scribed by Lucyna Harmon (editor), Dorota Osuchowska (editor)

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures 27
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Like many other human activities, translation is related to different forms of power. It can be the ability to control and set the rules. With written translations of significant works of culture, it has often been the powerholders who supported and promoted or impeded them, depending on their own preferences or their understanding of the actual sociopolitical needs. The powerholders in question are individual or collective decision-makers at various levels of the sociopolitical hierarchy who determine policies and allocate funds for approved projects. This book focuses on the possiblities of various approches to translation and power as a research topic within Translation Studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Lucyna Harmon • How Does Translation Relate to Power within Translation Studies
Political Corner
Lada Kolomiyets • Translation as an Instrument of Russification in Soviet Ukraine
Valentyna Savchyn • Translator’s Agency and Totalitarian System: A Case Study of Mykola Lukash
Oleksandr Kalnychenko and Nataliia Kalnychenko • Campaigning against the “Nationalistic Wrecking” in Translation in Ukraine in the mid-1930s
Jordi Jané-Lligé • Translation of Essays in Francoist Spain: The Case of Edicions 62, a Catalan Publishing House
Daniel Martín-González • Retranslation and Power: Attempts of Conversion of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century by Scottish Protestant Missionaries through Retranslations from English Texts
Iryna Odrekhivska • The Power of Translation in the Powerless Habsburg Galicia, or How the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Identity Translated Itself until 1848
Antony Hoyte-West • Luxembourgish – the Next EU Language? A Translation and Interpreting-Based Perspective
Marzena Chrobak • Interpreters in Wars of the 21st Century: Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur
Vinai Kumar Donthula • Politics in Translation
Literary Corner
Oleksandr Rebrii • Sacralization in a Dystopian Novel: Literary, Linguistic, and Translation Implications
Maria Puri • Are We Reading the Same Book? Multiple Iterations of Arundhati Roy’s Novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Ganna Tashchenko • Gender Identity in Translation (Based on The Hours by M. Cunningham)
Neslihan Kansu Yetkiner and Ilgın Aktener • Imagology in Rendering Çalıkuşu: A Micro-Level Approach
Yulia Naniak • Modifications in the Perception of the Characters in the Ukrainian and Anglophone Translations of J.W. Goethe’s Faust
Monika Browarczyk • How to Tell Others about Beauty: Remarks on the Hindi Translations of Adam Zagajewski’s Poems
Mariia Bondarenko • Agency in Translating James Joyce’s Short Prose in 20th-Century Ukraine
Linguistic Corner
Dorota Osuchowska • Empowering Women: The Addressative Detektyw in the Polish Translations of the Rizzoli and Isles Series by Tess Gerritsen
Iryna Frolova • Types of Mistakes in Rendering Terms in Machine Translation
Nadiia Andreichuk • The Power of Temporality from a Semiotic Perspective: Translational Semiosis
Bogdana Stoika • “Powerful” Verbs: Semantics of Verbs Denoting Management in Different Lingual and Legal Cultures
Magda Kabiri • Translating Identity through Self-Presentation: The Cognitive-Communicative Perspective
Marta Bołtuć • Global English and Power Relations in Translation
Olha Zhulavska and Alla Martynyuk • English-Ukrainian Translations of Synesthetic Metaphors
Olesia Borysova • Grammatical Issues in Legal Documents Translation in the Context of Globalization
Vladyslava Demetska • Pragmatic Texts of Political Discourse in Translation: Theoretical Perspective
Liudmyla Slavova • Discursive Strategies of Politicians through the Prism of Translation