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Language, Knowledge, Experience – Studying Translation Positively

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for Translation;Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies

CONYTRIBUTOR / SPEAKER:

ZHU, Chunshen

RELEASE DATE:

2022

LENGTH:

130 Minutes

VIDEO TYPE:

Scholarly Talks

This talk is a general introduction to Fathoming Translation as Discursive Experience: Theorization and application (Zhu 2021, Routledge). It will begin with an explanation of the study's integrating hypothesis about the relationship between language, knowledge, and experience that underlies both the scene-setting and stance-taking first chapter and the theoretical foundation modelled in Chapter 2. It then observes how the text as a structure of meaning is realized as dynamic experience in reading along the unfolding of its information (Chapter 3), and why the sentence can serve as an experiential unit of translation to function as an operational link between the text and its integral parts to ensure the textual accountability of translation (Chapter 4). We will also talk about the overall structure of argumentation and methodology of the study, identifying concepts and arguments that string the chapters together, and discussing issues that might be of interest to students and researchers. Whereas the first four chapters together furnish the conceptual and methodological framework of our positive approach to translation, Chapters 5-7 provide demonstrations to illustrate its actual implementation in phenomenon-focused theorization, all concerning experience generation with special reference respectively to transitivity-based modification and its implications for attention management, repetition in creating an artistic effect, and syntactic iconicity as a cognitive underpinning of a form-sensitive source or target text. The textual accountability of translation as discursive experience is further examined when we reach the final Chapter 8, where a text (in this case a Guilin tourism slogan, i.e. 桂林山水甲天下) with its English translation is scrutinized as a social event evolving through its varying historical and cultural situations to see how the same amount of information, repackaged in a seemingly ‘faithful' and ‘beautiful' rendering, may engender discursive experiences presumably unexpected or unwanted by the text producer.

Translation studies approached positively presents itself as a liberal programme of intellectual inquiry and humanistic education to advance our understanding of ourselves and of the world. Since the study is informed by more than one theoretical system and straddles such areas as language, literature, communication, and culture, I will be happy to answer any questions from the audience during the Q&A session.

Language, Knowledge, Experience – Studying Translation Positively

部門:

翻譯學研究中心;翻譯、傳譯及跨文化研究系

講者:

ZHU, Chunshen

發佈日期:

2022

影片長度:

130 分鐘

影片類型:

學術論壇

Language, Knowledge, Experience – Studying Translation Positively

部门:

翻译学研究中心;翻译、传译及跨文化研究系

讲者:

ZHU, Chunshen

发布日期:

2022

影片长度:

130 分钟

影片类型:

学术论坛

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