Translation as cultural technique

Constructing a translation history of media

Bibliographic Data

ID21584023
AuthorsBrecht de Groote (0000-0003-3339-8687, Ghent University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume35
Issue2
Pages285-305
Publication date2023-05-25
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTarget International Journal of Translation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0924-1884 • E-ISSN: 1569-9986
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/target.20180.deg
OpenAlexW4310223474
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited32

Even though studies at the intersection of translation and media are a burgeoning subfield within Translation Studies, the integration of media theory into the scholarship on translation remains underdeveloped. Joining a recent surge of interest in adapting media theory to a broad analysis of the impacts of the technologies that organise and support translation, this article takes up the concept of cultural technique to argue that, just as technological revolutions have reshaped translation practices, translations have structured media systems. Following its exploration of a medial methodology in Translation Studies and the benefits of a historicist perspective, the article turns to a set of case studies, all sourced from the Romantic period, which was characterised by a complex attitude to mediality and translation prefigurative of the current digital turn. The case studies demonstrate the benefits of a medial view in the study of translation

Epistemology · Historicism · Linguistics · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Translation studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence

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