none 10.1075/btl.67.12kot John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67862691 1419254 1419183 202510200439000057 10.1075 2025-10-20T02:39:42Z 2014-03-24T03:41:33Z 0 0929-7316 10.1075/btl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/btl Anthony Pym Universitat Rovira i Virgili https://ror.org/00g5sqv46 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9440-0886 Miriam Shlesinger Bar-Ilan University https://ror.org/03kgsv495 Zuzana Jettmarová Charles University https://ror.org/024d6js02 Translation Studies has recently been searching for connections with Cultural Studies and Sociology. This volume brings together a range of ways in which the disciplines can be related, particularly with respect to research methodologies. The key aspects covered are the agents behind translation, the social histories revealed by translations, the perceived roles and values of translators in social contexts, the hidden power relations structuring publication contexts, and the need to review basic concepts of the way social and cultural systems work. Special importance is placed on Community Interpreting as a field of social complexity, the lessons of which can be applied in many other areas. The volume studies translators and interpreters working in a wide range of contexts, ranging from censorship in East Germany to English translations in Gujarat. Major contributions are made by Agnès Whitfield, Daniel Gagnon, Franz Pöchhacker, Michaela Wolf, Pekka Kujamäki and Rita Kothari, with an extensive introduction on methodology by Anthony Pym. 67 8 10 2006 7 1 2008 9789027216755 9789027293411 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/btl.67 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027293411 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027293411.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/btl.67/html Rita Kothari https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6991-8683 Emerging consensus Although commonly thought to unify cultures, translation can also be used in order to create separate cultural identities. This functional complexity can be seen in the case of translation into English in the state of Gujarat, India. Although translations into English were previously seen as an index of cultural inequality, different social agents now view them in positive terms. Official policy sees translation into English as a way of projecting Gujarati culture beyond its borders; a wide range of expatriates use those translations as a means of keeping in touch with “home”; educational institutions use translation as a way of opening new subject areas in literary studies; publishers use it as a means of tapping new markets. Translation into English thus means different things to different social agents, enabling a wide consensus to emerge in its favor. 8 10 2006 7 1 2008 93 99 10.1075/btl.67.12kot https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.67.12kot https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/btl.67.12kot/html