How does the context make a translation happen? An activity theory perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12346262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhonggang Sang (0000-0002-0105-4268, Tianshui Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-141 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Semiotics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-0330 • E-ISSN: 1470-1219 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10350330.2017.1336848 |
| OpenAlex | W2624300517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Context is a critical topic in translation studies. The research into translation context has undergone a shift from the multidisciplinary investigation into one or a few contextual factors to conceptualizing it as contextualization, i.e. a dynamic process of the interactions among the contextual factors. Nevertheless, the mechanism of translation contextualization, namely, the problem of how the interactive factors enable a translator to bring a meaningful target text into being, is yet to be explored. Activity Theory is a cultural-historical framework to analyze social practices. It can provide an account of translation contextualization. In light of the framework, an activity itself is the context of a translator’s decision-making and translation contextualization is no other than the rule-governed actualization process of a translation activity, which is hierarchically realized through chains of actions and operations
Activity Theory · Cognitive science · Context (archaeology · Context analysis · Contextualization · Dynamic and formal equivalence · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Machine translation · Mechanism (biology · Multidisciplinary approach · Perspective (graphical · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · Target text · Translation (biology · Translation studies · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence
Language, Context, and Text
Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
Learning by Expanding
The Pivotal Status of the Translator’s Habitus
Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
An Activity Theory approach to translation for a pedagogical purpose
Trajectories of Research in Translation Studies
Text and context in translation
Contextualization in translator- and interpreter-mediated events
Rethinking Context
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |