Thinking Through Translation with Metaphors

James St.Andre

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317640080
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Thinking through Translation with Metaphors explores a wide range of metaphorical figures used to describe the translation process, from Aristotle to the present.

Most practitioners and theorists of translation are familiar with a number of metaphors for translation, such as the metaphor of the bridge, following in another's footsteps, performing a musical score, changing clothes, or painting a portrait; yet relatively little attention has been paid to what these metaphorical models reveal about how we conceptualize translation. Drawing on insights from recent developments in metaphor theory, contributors to this volume reveal how central metaphorical language has been to translation studies at all periods of time and in various cultures. Metaphors have played a key role in shaping the way in which we understand translation, determining what facets of the translation process are deemed to be important and therefore merit study, and aiding in the training of successive generations of translators and theorists. While some of the papers focus mainly on past metaphorical representations, others discuss recent shifts in both metaphor and translation theory, while others still propose innovative metaphors in a bid to transform translation studies.

The volume also includes an annotated bibliography of works centrally concerned with metaphors of translation.

Index

Abbasid caliphate 116

Abdulzahra, Muhamad 116 fn

act 10, 22, 28, 38, 51, 54, 59–60, 71, 76, 84, 96, 101, 146, 158, 213, 216, 218, 221–22, 224, 230–32, 250–52, 257, 287; act of emulation 90; act of thinking 145; theatrical act 162; act of appropriation 171; act of intercultural communication 187; act of intervention 257; Oedipal act 297; see also translation, act of; smuggling, act of

acting 10, 14, 47–54, 57, 60, 62–67, 69–71, 94–96, 216, 252, 262, 275, 278–80, 285, 295

action 8, 32, 53–54, 60–61, 65, 68–69, 94, 131, 145, 164, 231, 243, 246, 257; bodily 64; dramatic 67–68; action queues 56–58; see also metaphor, action

aesthetics 146, 150, 152, 157, 208, 249, 254, 305

African-Americans 276–78, 281, 283, 285

afterlife of translation 100, 155, 225; see also Benjamin, Walter

alchemy 11, 155–56; alembic 149, 155

Anglo-American culture 149, 248, 285

Americas 128fn, 171

analogy 2, 4, 19, 22, 49, 79, 85, 87–88, 146fn, 147, 151, 172–73, 180, 231, 242, 286, 297; analogical thinking 75; structural analogies 176

Anderson, Warren 122

anthropophagy 97–99, 110, 134, 235–36, 302; see also can...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Translation and Metaphor: Setting the Terms
• Imitating Bodies and Clothes: Refashioning the Western Conception of Translation
• Performing Translation
• Metaphorical Models of Translation: Transfer vs Imitation and Action
• Western Metaphorical Discourses Implicit in Translation Studies
• Squeezing the Jellyfish: Early Western Attempts to Characterize Translation from the Japanese
• Metaphor as a Metaphor for Translation
• Metaphors for Metaphor Translation
• Yves Bonnefoy’s Metaphors on Translation
• Translation as Smuggling
• Passing through Translation
• An Annotated Bibliography of Works Concerned with Metaphors of Translation
• List of Contributors
• Index