Date: 13-Nov-2007 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Constructing a Sociology of Translation: Wolf, Fukari (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Constructing a Sociology of Translation
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 74
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Michaela Wolf
Editor: Alexandra Fukari
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027216823 Pages: 238 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027216823 Pages: 238 Price: U.S. $ 142.00
Abstract:
The view of translation as a socially regulated activity has opened up a broad field of research in the last few years. This volume deals with central questions of the new domain and aims to contribute to the conceptualisation of a general sociology of translation. Interdisciplinary in approach, it discusses the role of major representatives of sociology like Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Latour, Bernard Lahire, Anthony Giddens or Niklas Luhmann in establishing a theoretical framework for a sociology of translation. Drawing on methodologies from sociology and integrating them into translation studies, the book questions some of the established categories in this discipline and calls for a redefinition of long-assumed principles. The contributions show the social involvement of translation in various fields and focus especially on the translator's position in an emerging sociology of translation, Bourdieu's influence in conceptualising this new sub-discipline, methodological questions and a sociologically oriented meta-discussion of translation studies.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discipline of Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Translation
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