Translating the European House: Discourse, Ideology and Politics - Selected Papers by Christina Schäffner

399 Pages·2016·1.74 MB·English

by  Stefan Baumgarten, Chantal Gagnon (eds.)

Translating the
European House

Translating the
European House
:
Discourse, Ideology and Politics
– Selected Papers

by Christina Schäffner
Edited by
Stefan Baumgarten and Chantal Gagnon
Translating the European House:
Discourse, Ideology and Politics – Selected Papers by Christina Schäffner

Edited by Stefan Baumgarten and Chantal Gagnon

This book first published 2016

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK

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Copyright © 2016 by Stefan Baumgarten, Chantal Gagnon
and contributors

All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced,
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-9539-3
ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-9539-2
Christina Schäffner

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements .................................................................................... ix

Tabula Gratulatoria ...................................................................................... x

General Introduction .................................................................................. xii

Political Discourse Analysis in a Multilingual World ................................. 1
Stefan Baumgarten and Chantal Gagnon

I. Building a European House? Or at Two Speeds into a Dead End?
Metaphors in the Debate on the United Europe (1996) ............................. 30

II. Strategies of Translating Political Texts (1997) .................................... 63

III. Where is the Source Text? (1997) ....................................................... 91

IV. Hedges in Political Texts (1998) ....................................................... 109

V. Third Ways and New Centres: Ideological Unity or Difference?
(2003) ...................................................................................................... 128

VI. Metaphor and Translation: Some Implications of a Cognitive
Approach (2004) ...................................................................................... 148

VII. Political Discourse Analysis from the Point of View of Translation
Studies (2004) .......................................................................................... 172

VIII. “The Prime Minister said ...”: Voices in Translated Political
Texts (2008) ............................................................................................ 207

IX. Does Translation Hinder Integration? (2009) .................................... 244

X. Crosscultural Translation and Conflicting Ideologies (2010) ............. 264

XI. Intercultural Intertextuality as a Translation Phenomenon (2012) .... 287
viii Contents
XII. Unknown Agents in Translated Political Discourse (2012) ............. 315
Publications by Christina Schäffner ........................................................ 340
Index of Names........................................................................................ 361
Subject Index ........................................................................................... 366
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work was supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec –
Société et Culture, and by Bangor University in North Wales. The editors
would also like to thank Adélie O. Coutu (Université de Montréal) for her
help with editing and proofreading the book, as well as Professor Andrew
Chesterman and Professor Paul Chilton for their valuable comments on an
earlier script. Special thanks also go to the following publishing
institutions and individuals, who have kindly granted permission to reprint
each of the twelve essays: John Benjamins Publishing Company
(Amsterdam/Netherlands), Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft (Frankfurt/
Germany), Channel View Publications/Multilingual Matters (Bristol/UK),
Taylor & Francis Group/Routledge (Abingdon/UK), Elsevier B.V.
(Amsterdam/Netherlands), Ingrid Simonnæs (editor of SYNAPS
Fagspråk, Kommunikasjon, Kulturkunnskap), Presses Sourbonne
Nouvelle (Paris/France), Ashgate Publishing (Farnham/UK), Cambridge
Scholars Publishing (Newcastle/UK).