Situatedness and Performativity

Translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional training

Translating and interpreting are unpredictable social practices framed by historical, ethical, and political constraints. Using the concepts of situatedness and performativity as anchors, the authors examine translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional training. As such, the chapters focus on enacted events and conditioned practices by exploring production processes and the social, historical, and cultural conditions of the field. These outlooks shift our attention to social and institutionalized acts of translating and interpreting, considering also the materiality of bodies, artefacts, and technologies involved in these scenes.

Contributors: Raquel Pacheco Aguilar (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz), Ehsan Alipour (Allameh Tabataba'i University), Audrey Canalès (Université de Montréal), Paola Gentile (University of Trieste), Marie-France Guénette (Université Laval), Ellen Lambrechts (KU Leuven), Yuan Ping (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Marike van der Watt (KU Leuven), Wenqian Zhang (University of Leeds)

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

"Situatedness and Performativity" was edited by Raquel Pacheco Aguilar and Marie-France Guénette.

Raquel Pacheco Aguilar is postdoctoral researcher in translation studies and member of the research group ‘Politics of Translation’ in the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

Marie-France Guénette is assistant professor of translation studies in the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Translation at Université Laval, and member of the Canadian interuniversity research centers on digital humanities and early modern studies.

Yes, "Situatedness and Performativity" is part of the "Translation, Interpreting and Mediation" series.

Translation, Interpreting and Mediation

Mission statement

Championing a broad and transversal approach to the study of translational phenomena, Translation, Interpreting and Mediation (TIME)  is a book series for monographs and edited volumes that explore translation as a pervasive social practice connecting spaces and collectivities through complex forms of resemiotization and mediation. The series transcends traditional notions of translation as the decoding and recoding of semantic invariants and embraces an expansive understanding of translational agency. It aims to provide a venue for theoretical and methodological innovations at the disciplinary frontiers where translation is pervasive and essential but seldom fully understood or acknowledged. The series welcomes different perspectives on translation, interpreting and mediation, interfacing with a variety of areas of study, including sociology, literature, linguistics, cognition, politics, law, history, communication, multimodality, ecology, technology, cultural production and digital humanities (among others). The series draws inspiration from the collective expertise of CETRA (Centre for Translation Studies), its institutional home at KU Leuven.

All volumes in the series are double peer reviewed.

For questions, please contact the series editors.

Series editors

Jack McMartin (KU Leuven)
Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds)

Editorial board

Núria Codina Solà (KU Leuven)
Lieven D’hulst (KU Leuven)
Peter J. Freeth (London Metropolitan University)
Deborah Giustini (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Gabriel González Núñez (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Bei Hu (National University of Singapore)
Akiko Sakamoto (Kansai University)

Advisory board

Brian Baer (Kent State University)
Pieter Boulogne (KU Leuven)
Lynne Bowker (University of Laval)
Elke Brems (KU Leuven)
Leo Tak-hung Chan (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Antoon Cox (KU Leuven)
Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)
Dilek Dizdar (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Yves Gambier (University of Turku)
Maud Gonne (University of Liège)
Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Copenhagen Business School)
Haidee Kotze (Utrecht University)
Kaisa Koskinen (Tampere University)
Kobus Marais (University of the Free State)
Reine Meylaerts (KU Leuven)
Joss Moorkens (Dublin City University)
Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University)
Franz Pöchhacker (University of Vienna)
Hanna Risku (University of Vienna)
Diana Roig Sanz (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Heidi Salaets (KU Leuven)
Christina Schäffner (Aston University)
Luc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu / KU Leuven)

Yes, "Situatedness and Performativity" is published Open Access. It is available under a BY-NC-ND license.

Publication of "Situatedness and Performativity" was funded by Open Book Collective
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring translation and interpreting as “practice” Raquel Pacheco Aguilar & Marie-France Guénette
Part 1 Translation and Interpreting Practices and Their Political Effects
Performative Translation and Identity, from Poetics to Politics Audrey Canalès
News Translation as (Re)framing: A Critical Framing Analysis of the 2014 Hong Kong Protests in Reference News Yuan Ping
A Different Story for a Different Readership: A Skopos Approach to the Translation of Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s Alienación Ellen Lambrechts
Part 2 People Involved in Translation Events
“Handy, the Middlemen!”: Mediating Afrikaans Literature in the Low Countries Marike van der Watt
Publishers, Translators, and Literature Foundations: The Selection, Reception, and Image Building of Translated Literature from the Low Countries to Italy Paola Gentile
The Making of a Translator’s Brand in International Literary Exchanges: The “Discoverer” Howard Goldblatt Wenqian Zhang
Part 3 The Temporal and Spatial Situatedness of Translation
Restoration Through Historicist Translation Marie-France Guénette
Translation and Culture Planning in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A Study of State Actors as Planners Ehsan Alipour
Deconstructing the Tensions Brought on by Cultivating Translators and Interpreters Raquel Pacheco Aguilar
Index

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Situatedness and Performativity" is 10.11116/9789461667359.