Publication

2017 - Taylor & Francis Group

Language

English

Word Count

52,500 words, Guess

Page Count

210 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCP306.2R63 2016
  • LCCP306.2 R63 2016eb

Description

"This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu, with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in society. The central claim in CTS is that translators help condition what TS scholars take to be the primal scene of translation: two languages, two language communities, with the translator as mediator. According to Sakai, intralingual translation is primal: we are all foreigners to each other, making every address to another 'heterolingual', thus a form of translation; and it is the order that these acts of translation bring to communication that begins to generate the 'two separate languages' scenario. CTS is dedicated to the historicization of the social relations that create that scenario"--Publisher's website.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Critical Translation StudiesTaylor & Francis Group2017

Similar Books

Reader Reviews

No reviews yet for this book.

Be the first to share your thoughts!