Author: Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Editor: Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 00356
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0761995870
Description
Bringing together original contributions from leading practitioners and scholars from diverse disciplines, this volume re-evaluates the paradigm of translation within the multilingual and cultural context of the Indian subcontinent.
This volume re-evaluates the paradigm of translation within the multilingual and cultural context of the Indian subcontinent. Translation is seen by the contributors as a mode of asking questions—difficult, subtle and fundamental questions—about cultural identity. Additionally, they view translations not only as a bridge between languages but between divergent theoretical positions.
Bringing together original contribution from leading practitioners and scholars from diverse disciplines, the volume is divided into five sections. The first section locates translation in its cultural context and explores the various factors which define the individual arenas of translators and theorists. The second section reflects not only the perils of translation in history but history as the perils of translation.
The next section considers pragmatic issues related to publishing, pedagogy and hermeneutics while the fourth looks at the way linguistic tools are deployed to reveal the bare bones of grammatical structure. The last section is devoted to the more abstract and philosophical aspects of translation which are generic to the evolution of a more thoughtful multilogue on the discipline of translation.
Multidisciplinary in approach, analytically sophisticated and supported by detailed textual analysis, this thought-provoking volume is essential reading for scholars and students of linguistics and literature while being of interest to philosophers, historians and sociologists.
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER I
CULTURAL ATTITUDES
Personal Commitment: The Craft of Translation
Multiple Identities: Notes towards a Sociology of Translation
Sources and Targets: Translation as a Cultural Filter
Post-Colonial Representation: Translation as Disruption
CHAPTER II
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Classical Idiom: Translation Sanskrit Critical Terms
Permodern Negotiations: Translating between Persian and Hindavi
Contemporary Textual Politics: Translation a Sacred Text
CHAPTER III
PRAGMATIC CONSIDERATIONS
Intimate Alienation: Immigrant Fiction and Translation
Authorial Submissions: Publishing and Translation
Classroom Constraints: The Pedagogy of Translation
Horizon of Expectations: Hermeneutics and Translation
CHAPTER IV
LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIONS
Language Behavior: Cognition and Translation
Language Patterns: Lexicography and Translation
Language Barriers: Machine Translation
CHAPTER V
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS
Theory East and West: Translation in its Different Context
Freudian Slips: The Psychopathology of Translation
Just Words: Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Translation
Speech Acts: The Philosophy of Language and Translation
Index