1st Edition

Translation as a Set of Frames

Edited By Ali Almanna, Chonglong Gu Copyright 2022
252 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Envisioned as a much needed celebration of the massive strides made in translation and interpreting studies, this eclectic volume takes stock of the latest cutting-edge research that exemplifies how translation and interpreting might interact with such topics as power, ideological discourse, representation, hegemony and identity. In this exciting volume, we have articles from different language... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgement

Notes on Contributors

List of Tables

List of Figures

  

Setting the agenda

Translation as a set of frames

Ali Almanna & Chonglong Gu

 

Chapter 1

Interpreters as key agents in reframing interwar power relations: the Paris Peace Conference as narrative turning point

Elena Aguirre Fernández Bravo & Asunción Taboada Lanza

 

Chapter 2

Framing translation as Discourse & discourse

Said Faiq

 

Chapter 3

Agency changes in Manga translation

Yean Fun Chow & Hasuria Che Omar

 

Chapter 4

Translation: reinforcing or challenging hegemony? Reflections on a structurationist approach to power and hegemony

Shabnam Saadat

 

Chapter 5

Translating Nigeria: Reconceptualizing Nigerian Fiction in French Translations

Ifeoluwa Oloruntoba

 

Chapter 6

Translation, resistance and national consciousness in the Nigerian postcolony

Francis Ajayi

 

Chapter 7

(Un)biased exegetes: "Moderate Islamism" and the reframing of Islam and the Muslim world in the aftermath of 9/11, 2001

Hajer Ben Hadj Salem

 

Chapter 8

‘Domesticating’ Saudi Arabia: news ‘transediting’, representations and power negotiation

Asma Alqunayir

 

Chapter 9

Russia and Vladimir Putin framed on China’s video-sharing platform Bilibili: an analysis of strategic audio-visual narratives

Wang Rui

 

Chapter 10

Hedging in interpreted speech:
Cognitive hedges in English and Hungarian interpreting

Andrea Götz

 

Chapter 11

Reframing Arabic metaphorical expressions in English subtitles: the case of Noom El Talat

Amer Al-Adwan & Mohammed Ahmed Thawabteh

 

Chapter 12

Celestial Bodies: a case of reframing Omani realities through translation

Musallam Al Ma’ani & Areej Al Jamaei

 

Chapter 13

Translating ‘Nation’ in Late Qing China:

the discourse and power of nation in the remaking of Chinese society, 1895-1911

Qing Cao

 

Chapter 14

Eliza’s two voices and the transformation of women’s identity in China

Yu Jing

 

Index

  

 

Biography

Ali Almanna is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar.

Chonglong Gu is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Chinese Translation Studies and programme director of MA in Chinese-English Translation and Interpreting at the University of Liverpool.