CFP--Translation Studies
Valentino, Russell
russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU
Sun Feb 14 18:06:35 UTC 2010
Closer to the expertise of many on this list, you could also compare it with the discipline of poetics, a branch of literary studies that employs a wide variety of methods including linguistic, statistical, and theoretical ones. Translation studies does this as well, and deploys much the same panoply of methodologies, from corpus linguistics to high theory. Criticizing translation studies for not helping practicing translators would be a lot like criticizing poetics for not helping practicing poets.
Members of this list who receive the large and growing number of conference announcements from Edwin Gentzler at U Mass Amherst's Translation Center will understand how widespread and central Translation Studies has become to literary studies around the world.
Russell Valentino
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You can compare it with acting (or painting). Actors acted even
before there were acting theories and schools. And even now there are
occasionally actors who did not have a single acting lesson,
Elizabeth Taylor for example. One can be a brilliant practitioner and
work on an instinct while being unable to theorize which does not
deny the fact that there can be theories behind the practice.
On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Susan LaVelle wrote:
> Translators have never translated without theory; readers often are
> unaware
> of that theory.
Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu
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