36.2057, Books: Positionalities of Translation Studies: Elsherif, Sobesto (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 03-Jul-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [Lucy.Trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Positionalities of Translation Studies: Elsherif, Sobesto (eds.) (2025)


Title: Positionalities of Translation Studies
Subtitle: On the Situatedness of Translation Research
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/positionalities-of-translation-studies-9781350447868/

Editor(s): Garda Elsherif, Joanna Sobesto

Hardback 9781350447868
Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This volume explores historical, cultural, linguistic, and
anthropocentric influences on Translation Studies (TS).
It brings together nuanced, individual, self-reflexive case studies
and juxtaposes them in order to provoke discussion on the role of
contemporary researchers in the discipline of TS. As well as
reflecting on the historical and geographical dimensions of the
situatedness of TS, the book builds on existing reflections on the
local, political and linguistic positions of TS and examines the
practical and methodological consequences of these discussions.
By considering insights and perspectives from various disciplines, the
contributors refer to the current state of the art in TS and
reconstruct the discussions held on Eurocentrism, anthropocentrism and
the historicity of TS that have been discussed in isolation so far.
This volume maps potential relations between them and introduces an
analytical concept of positionality that highlights commonalities
among various discourses. As well as theoretical and historical
analysis, the contributors ask how to methodologically deal with this
inevitable positioning of research in contemporary research practice.
The contributions cover various aspects of positionalities and its
influences on translation research, including gender,
anthropocentrism, experiential knowledge and geopolitics. They also
explore various histories of translation studies, in different
temporal, spatial and linguistic settings, such as China/Chinese,
Iran/Persian, the Netherlands/English, Ukraine/Ukrainian/Russian and
France/French, thereby highlighting that TS as a discipline is not a
monolith but consists of various histories interconnected with each
other.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Translation




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