Multiple translatorship in the public sphere: Translators, editors, publishers, and critics

Solum, Kristina

doi:10.1075/btl.137.03sol

In:Textual and Contextual Voices of Translation
Edited by Cecilia Alvstad, Annjo K. Greenall, Hanne Jansen and Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov
[Benjamins Translation Library 137] 2017
► pp. 39–60

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Translators, editors, publishers, and critics

Multiple translatorship in the public sphere

Kristina Solum | University of Oslo

Published online: 19 October 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.137.03sol

This chapter examines three recent Norwegian debates on translation sparked off by translation reviews, in which the various agents involved in producing translated texts were granted unusual visibility. The case reflects how discussions on translators’ agency may be of interest for the public sphere in three senses: in disputing unfair judgments on translations, in discussing the quality criteria of translations, and in gatekeeping when the publishers’ quality control mechanisms have fallen short.

Keywords: translation, multiple translatorship, contextual voices, translation pact, actor-network theory, critics, copy editors, visibility, public sphere

Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Theoretical and methodological framework
- 2.1Translators’ visibility in the public sphere
- 2.2Multiple translatorship
- 2.3Latour’s actor-network theory
3.Events manifest in the public sphere
- 3.1The 2011 debate
- 3.2The 2012 debate
- 3.3The 2013 debate
4.Actors not manifest in the public sphere
- 4.1The impact of the What Can Be Said about Translations? project
- 4.2The impact of the English language
5.Concluding remarks
Notes

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