A research project in progress: Strategies of image-making and status advancement of translators and interpreters as a marginal occupational group

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet; Shlesinger, Miriam

doi:10.1075/btl.75.07sel

In:Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury
Edited by Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger † and Daniel Simeoni
[Benjamins Translation Library 75] 2008
► pp. 79–90

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Strategies of image-making and status advancement of translators and interpreters as a marginal occupational group

A research project in progress

Rakefet Sela-Sheffy

Miriam Shlesinger

Published online: 13 March 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.75.07sel

Given the relative invisibility of translators and interpreters as an occupation, they are hardly studied as a social group, either in the field of TS or in the sociology of professions. Our research aims to analyze their construction of a sense of an occupational identity and strategies of status improvement, drawing on interviews with six subgroups in the field (literary and non-literary translators, subtitlers, conference, community, court and signed-language interpreters)

Keywords: Historiography of translation theory, nation and normativity, theory and exile, translation and norms

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