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This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts. It foregrounds the connections between cultural analysis, literary critique, pedagogy and practice, uniting the disparate fields that operate within translation studies. In doing so, it offers fresh perspectives that will encourage the reader to reappraise translation studies as a field, reaffirming the directions that the subject has taken over the last twenty years. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the links between translation and globalization, this ambitious edited collection will appeal to students and scholars who work in any area of translation studies.
List of contents
- Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Agency of Translation and Interpreting in Globalization and Translocation Dynamics; Concepción B. Godev.- Part II. Translation as Global Translocation.- Chapter 2. Translation as Repositioning and Rebranding: Cormac McCarthy's and the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men; Michael Scott Doyle.- Chapter 3. Translating Arab Women Academics: The Case of Olfa Youssef's Hayratu Muslima; Lamia Benyoussef.- Chapter 4. Communicating Across Cultures: The Case of Primo Levi, Italo Calvino, and Pliny the Elder; Caterina Agostini.- Chapter 5. News Translation and Globalization: Narratives on the Move; Themis Kanklidou.- Part III. Student-Translators as Agents of Global Translocation.- Chapter 6. Teaching the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation Across Multiple Languages; Keyne Cheshire, Scott Denham, Amanda Ewington, and Kyra A. Kietrys.- Chapter 7. Understanding Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Through Translation of PoliticalSpeeches and Audiovisual Material; Concepción B. Godev and Matthew Sykes.- Chapter 8. A Context-Based Approach to Introducing Translation Memory in Translator Training; Jeff Killman.- Chapter 9. Learning Outcomes of Computer-Assisted Translation: Direct Assessment and Self-assessment; Mónica Rodríguez-Castro.- Chapter 10. Body Language Awareness: Teaching Medical Spanish Interpreting; Diana M. Ruggiero.
About the author
Concepción B. Godev is Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Her research interests focus on pedagogical aspects of translation and second language acquisition. She teaches courses on the translation of political discourse, subtitling, and pragmatics.
Summary
This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts. It foregrounds the connections between cultural analysis, literary critique, pedagogy and practice, uniting the disparate fields that operate within translation studies. In doing so, it offers fresh perspectives that will encourage the reader to reappraise translation studies as a field, reaffirming the directions that the subject has taken over the last twenty years. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the links between translation and globalization, this ambitious edited collection will appeal to students and scholars who work in any area of translation studies.
