Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the Classic Edition
- Introduction
- Translation, power, conflict
- Why narrative?
- Overview of Chapters
- Introducing narrative theory
- A typology of narrative
- Understanding how narratives work: features of narrativity I
- Understanding how narratives work: features of narrativity II
- Framing narratives in translation
- Assessing narratives: the narrative paradigm
2.1 The status and effects of narrativity
2.2 Defining narrative
2.3 The political import of narratives
3.1 Ontological narratives
3.2 Public narratives
3.3 Conceptual (disciplinary) narratives
3.4 Meta- (master) narratives
4.1 Temporality (Bruner’s narrative diachronicity)
4.2 Relationality (Hermeneutic composability)
4.3 Causal emplotment
4.4 Selective appropriation
5.1 Particularity
5.2 Genericness
5.3 Normativeness/canonicity and breach
5.4 Narrative accrual
6.1 Framing, frame ambiguity and frame space
6.2 Temporal and spatial framing
6.3 Selective appropriation of textual material
6.4 Framing by labelling
6.5 Repositioning of participants
7.1 The narrative paradigm: basic tenets
7.2 Coherence (probability)
7.3 Fidelity
7.4 Assessing narratives: applying the model
7.5 Concluding remarks
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Mona Baker is Professor Emerita of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and Director of the Shanghai Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, China (www.jiaotongbakercentre.org). She is Founding Vice President of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS, 2004–2015) and author/editor of several leading titles in translation studies, including In Other Words (Routledge 3e 2018) and co-editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies (Routledge, 2e, 2008)
