In:Translation and Affect: Essays on sticky affects and translational affective labour
Kaisa Koskinen
[Benjamins Translation Library 152] 2020
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Published online: 22 June 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.152.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.152.toc
Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
Preface: Living with translationix
Chapter 1.Affecting and being affected: On the names and nature of affects1
1.1From neural to social: The spectrum of affect3
1.2Affects in translation studies7
1.3Now, what is affect (and does it matter)?10
1.4What can we do with affect?24
Chapter 2.Affective labour and sticky affects29
2.1Affective labour29
2.2Love as a sticky affect in translation34
2.3Affects and network economy38
Chapter 3.Appraising and modulating affective valence in translation45
3.1Appraising affects46
3.1.1Affective valence and appraisal48
3.1.2Appraisal theory in text analysis49
3.2Modulating affects54
3.3Reception, affinity and affect62
Chapter 4.The misery and splendour of translating71
4.1Translator Saarikoski and his diaries73
4.2Impostor syndrome as a translatological malaise78
4.3Work engagement and the desire to translate86
4.4The pains and pleasures of translation91
Chapter 5.Sticky affects, affective capital and interpreter performance95
5.1The sticky fear of betrayal95
5.2Doing being an interpreter97
5.2.1Performance as doing being97
5.2.2Performing impartiality100
5.2.3Accuracy and affect106
5.2.4Prohibition of empathy107
5.3Embodied affinities and distances110
5.4Affective labour, codification and reflexivity113
Chapter 6.Translation and the sense of space117
6.1On spaces and places119
6.2Spaces and places of translation121
6.2.1Sense of space in translation work121
6.2.2The spaces of translation in poetry performances130
6.2.3The space of translation as a playground134
Chapter 7.Translation technology and affect143
7.1Translators’ technology-related affects144
7.2Machine translation and affects149
7.3Future scenarios151
Chapter 8.Affect and pedagogy: Reflexivity, empathy and empowerment157
8.1Reflexivity as a foundational skill160
8.2Empathy and affect166
8.3Empowerment173
Chapter 9.Conclusions: Affecting and being affected179
References183
Index199
