Table Of ContentRESEARCHING TRANSLATION
IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY
AND GLOBAL CONFLICT
Mona Baker is one of the leading figures in the development of translation
studies as an academic discipline. This book brings together fifteen of her most
influential articles, carefully selected and grouped under three main topics that
represent her most enduring contributions to the field: corpus-based translation
studies, translation as renarration and translators in society. These applications
and approaches have been widely adopted by translation scholars around the globe.
The first section showcases Baker’s pioneering work in introducing corpus
linguistics methodologies to the field of translation studies, which established one
of the fastest growing subfields in the discipline. The second section focuses on her
application of narrative theory and the notion of framing to the study of translation
and interpreting, and her contribution to demonstrating the various ways in which
translators and interpreters intervene in the negotiation of social and political
reality. The third and final section discusses the role of translators and interpreters
as social and political activists who use their linguistic skills to empower voices
made invisible by the global power of English and the politics of language.
Tracing key moments in the development of translation studies as a discipline,
and with a general introduction by Theo Hermans and section introductions by
other scholars contextualising the work, this is essential reading for translation
studies scholars, researchers and advanced students.
Kyung Hye Kim is a lecturer in translation studies at the School of Foreign
Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and member of the Jiao Tong Baker
Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies. She holds a PhD in Translation
and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester.
Yifan Zhu is a professor in translation studies at the School of Foreign Languages,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Deputy Director of the Jiao Tong Baker
Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies.
Key Thinkers on Translation
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Researching Translation in the Age of Technology and Global Conflict
Selected Works of Mona Baker
Edited by Kyung Hye Kim and Yifan Zhu
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RESEARCHING
TRANSLATION IN THE
AGE OF TECHNOLOGY
AND GLOBAL
CONFLICT
Selected Works of Mona Baker
Edited by Kyung Hye Kim and Yifan Zhu
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Title: Researching translation in the age of technology and global
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Subjects: LCSH: Translating and interpreting—Technological
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CONTENTS
List of figures viii
List of tables x
Preface xi
Theo Hermans
Acknowledgements xvii
PART I
Corpus-based translation studies 1
I ntroduction 1
Federico Zanettin
1 1993. ‘Corpus linguistics and translation studies: implications
and applications’, in Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena
Tognini-Bonelli (eds) Text and Technology: In Honour of
John Sinclair , Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins,
233–250. 9
2 1995. ‘Corpora in translation studies: an overview and some
suggestions for future research’, T arget 7(2): 223–243. 25
3 1996. ‘Corpus-based translation studies: the challenges that lie
ahead’, in Harold Somers (ed.) Terminology, LSP and
Translation: Studies in Language Engineering in Honour of
Juan C. Sager , Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins,
175–186. 44
vi Contents
4 2000. ‘Towards a methodology for investigating the style
of a literary translator’, Target 12(2): 241–266. 55
5 2004. ‘A corpus-based view of similarity and difference
in translation’, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9(2):
167–193. 77
PART II
Translation as renarration 101
Introduction 101
Neil Sadler
6 2007. ‘Reframing conflict in translation’, S ocial Semiotics 17(2):
151–169. 111
7 2008. ‘Ethics of renarration: Mona Baker is interviewed
by Andrew Chesterman’, Cultus 1(1): 10–33. 130
8 2010. ‘Narratives of terrorism and security: “accurate”
translations, suspicious frames’, C ritical Studies on Terrorism
3(3): 347–364. 151
9 2014. ‘Translation as re-narration’, in Juliane House (ed.)
Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach , Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 158–177. 174
10 2018. ‘Narrative analysis and translation’, in Kirsten
Malmkjæer (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Translation
and Linguistics, London & New York: Routledge, 179–193. 190
PART III
Translators in society 209
Introduction 209
Moira Inghilleri
11 2010. ‘Interpreters and translators in the war zone: narrated
and narrators’, in Moira Inghilleri and Sue-Ann Harding (eds)
Translation and Violent Conflict, Special Issue of The Translator
16(2): 197–222. 219
Contents vii
12 2010. ‘Translation and activism: emerging patterns of narrative
community’, in Maria Tymoczko (ed.) Translation, Resistance,
Activism, Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts
Press, 23–41. 243
13 2013. ‘Translation as an alternative space for political action’,
Social Movement Studies 12(1): 23–47. 259
14 2016. ‘The prefigurative politics of translation in place-based
movements of protest: subtitling in the Egyptian revolution’,
The Translator 22(1): 1–21. 287
15 2016. ‘Beyond the spectacle: translation and solidarity in
contemporary protest movements’, in Mona Baker (ed.)
Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution,
London & New York: Routledge, 1–18. 312
Subject index 329
Name index 333
FIGURES
4.1 Screen shot from the Translational English Corpus 60
5.1 Overview of subcorpora used in the study 80
5.2 Translators in the narrative subcorpus of TEC 81
6.1 Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh prays
before a speech, most likely for funds . . . most likely to come
from Iran 119
6.2 A militant from the Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade on the West Bank,
during an event to remember one of the many acts of violence
that have taken place there 119
6.3 Yemenite Cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani. Annotated video clip
accompanying A lhayat Aljadeeda article, courtesy of MEMRI 119
6.4 Screen shot from Jenin Jenin 124
9.1 Opening screen shot from ‘Words of Women from the Egyptian
Revolution’ Videos 179
10.1 Typographical error in F reedom for Hassan Mostafa 201
10.2 Grammatical error in E pisode 2: Sabah Ibrahim 202
13.1 Translators United for Peace website 263
13.2 Translator Brigades’ translations of Adbusters articles 266
13.3 Translator Brigades site and language categories 267
13.4 Extract from Tlaxcala’s ‘Library of Translators’ featuring
WSF as an entry 268
13.5 Tlaxcala’s ‘Who We Are’ section, 2009 269
13.6 Ecos – Babels section of the ECOS site 271
13.7 An early version of the ECOS site (2009) giving prominence
to the issue of Palestine 274
13.8 Babels homepage (accessed 12 August 2011) 280
Figures ix
13.9 List of Babels site languages accessible through baBeLOG section
(accessed 12 August 2011) 281
13.10 Interface languages on earlier version of Tlaxcala website (2009) 281
13.11 Interface languages on current Tlaxcala site (accessed 12 August
2011) 282
13.12 baBeLOG entry, 2006 283
14.1 Mosireen logo 295
14.2 ‘Why Riot’ – Choice of ‘provocateurs’ 301
14.3 ‘Why Riot’ – Choice of ‘fig-leaf’ 301
14.4 Sort of a joke in English subtitles 302
14.5 Sort of a joke in Spanish subtitles 303
14.6 Prefigurative gender (un)marking in Words of Women .
Episode 6 – Mariam Kirollos 304
14.7 Prefigurative gender (un)marking in Words of Women .
Episode 7 – Madeeha Anwar 304
14.8 Overlap of Arabic and English subtitles – ‘Revolution is a crime,
market rate at least two years in prison’ 306
14.9 English subtitles obscuring Arabic on a piece of paper held
by Hany El Gamal – ‘The Shura Council Detainees’ 306
15.1 Addition of #OccupyCabinet in the subtitles of a Mosireen
documentary 323
