David Katan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5658243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Katan |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Katan |
| SIGNATURE | KATAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7990-8841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural Approaches to Translation
This entry discusses how culture impinges on the reading and the understanding of texts. It investigates the idea that culture is a manifestation of difference, and proposes four approaches for the translator, expanding on Schleiermacher's classic idea of translation as leaving the writer in peace by moving the reader to the writer or vice versa. The characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of each approach are illustrated. The first suggestion…
Translation at the cross-roads: Time for the transcreational turn
This paper focusses on the real problems involved in promoting the translator's role and status to that of intercultural mediator. Ever since the cultural turn in the 1980s, academics have been equating translation with intercultural mediation (IM) and translators as mediators. The paper first looks at how mediation has been understood in translation, and then investigates a number of issues regarding intervention, both at a theoretical and at a …
Cultural Approaches to Translation
There are numerous cultural approaches to translation, given the numerous definitions of both “culture” and “translation.” We might say that both culture and translation revolve around difference. We notice culture as difference, and we require translation when difference significantly affects communication. The approaches may then be divided according to how difference between self and other should be managed in translation. In the first case, “…
Translating the tourist gaze: From Heritage and 'Culture' to Actual Encounter
This paper covers two main areas. The fi rst area is an analysis of the various facets of heritage, cultural tourism and tourist encounter with other cultures in terms of culture-bound tourist gaze, a simplifi ed, generalised and necessarily distorted model of 'the Other'. The model of perception is culture itself, and is discussed in terms of 3 macro levels: heritage; the practices and traditions of a people; and the system of internal values an…
Translation at the cross-roads: Time for the transcreational turn
This paper focusses on the real problems involved in promoting the translator's role and status to that of intercultural mediator. Ever since the cultural turn in the 1980s, academics have been equating translation with intercultural mediation (IM) and translators as mediators. The paper first looks at how mediation has been understood in translation, and then investigates a number of issues regarding intervention, both at a theoretical and at a …
Translating the tourist gaze: From Heritage and 'Culture' to Actual Encounter
This paper covers two main areas. The fi rst area is an analysis of the various facets of heritage, cultural tourism and tourist encounter with other cultures in terms of culture-bound tourist gaze, a simplifi ed, generalised and necessarily distorted model of 'the Other'. The model of perception is culture itself, and is discussed in terms of 3 macro levels: heritage; the practices and traditions of a people; and the system of internal values an…
Cultural Approaches to Translation
There are numerous cultural approaches to translation, given the numerous definitions of both “culture” and “translation.” We might say that both culture and translation revolve around difference. We notice culture as difference, and we require translation when difference significantly affects communication. The approaches may then be divided according to how difference between self and other should be managed in translation. In the first case, “…
Translating the tourist gaze: From Heritage and 'Culture' to Actual Encounter
This paper covers two main areas. The fi rst area is an analysis of the various facets of heritage, cultural tourism and tourist encounter with other cultures in terms of culture-bound tourist gaze, a simplifi ed, generalised and necessarily distorted model of 'the Other'. The model of perception is culture itself, and is discussed in terms of 3 macro levels: heritage; the practices and traditions of a people; and the system of internal values an…
Translation at the cross-roads: Time for the transcreational turn
This paper focusses on the real problems involved in promoting the translator's role and status to that of intercultural mediator. Ever since the cultural turn in the 1980s, academics have been equating translation with intercultural mediation (IM) and translators as mediators. The paper first looks at how mediation has been understood in translation, and then investigates a number of issues regarding intervention, both at a theoretical and at a …
Cultural Approaches to Translation
This entry discusses how culture impinges on the reading and the understanding of texts. It investigates the idea that culture is a manifestation of difference, and proposes four approaches for the translator, expanding on Schleiermacher's classic idea of translation as leaving the writer in peace by moving the reader to the writer or vice versa. The characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of each approach are illustrated. The first suggestion…
Linguistics (4 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)