Cultural translation

An introduction to the problem, and Responses

Bibliographic Data

ID23358985
AuthorsBoris Buden (European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research), Stefan Nowotny (European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research), Sherry Simon (0000-0003-2587-0689, Concordia University), Ashok Bery (London Metropolitan University), Mike Cronin (0000-0001-8925-4039, Dublin City University), Michael Cronin (0009-0009-9884-0879)
Year2009
Volume2
Issue2
Pages196-219
Publication date2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTranslation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-1700 • E-ISSN: 1751-2921
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14781700902937730
OpenAlexW2048655002
LanguageEN
Citations received65
References cited24

Etymologically, translation evokes an act of moving or carrying across from one place or position to another, or of changing from one state of things to another. This does not apply only to the words of different languages, but also to human beings and their most important properties. They too can be moved across all sorts of differences and borders and so translated from one place to another, for instance from one cultural and political condition to another. Thus, one can culturally translate people – for a political purpose and with existential consequences. No discussion of the concept of cultural translation can easily dispense with an analysis of the very concrete devices of such translation if it strives to maintain contact with the political and existential issues at stake in the debate on cultural translation. The political meaning of cultural translation is not a quality external to the concept and capable of being discussed in a haphazard way. Precisely by becoming cultural, translation opens up the problem of its intrinsic political meaning.

Business · Cultural translation · Epistemology · Existentialism · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Translation (biology) · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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