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Article published In: Ideology and Cross-Cultural Encounters - Research and Methodology in Translation and Interpreting / Idéologie et les rencontres des cultures - recherche et méthodologie en traduction et interprétation
[FORUM 7:1] 2009
► pp. 155–169

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Translation as an Ethical Action

 | University of Salamanca, Spain
Published online: 1 April 2009
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https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.7.1.07vid
Les changements sociétaires du vingtième siècle ont créé ce que Zygmunt Barman appelle des temps liquides caractérisés par la richesse de l’hybridité et les problèmes qui en découlent. Aujourd’hui tout particulièrement la traduction est appréhendée comme un acte idéologique. Face à la mondialisation et aux mutations sociales qui reflètent les changements philosophiques et scientifiques, le concept de la traduction s’élargit et l’image du pont ne suffit plus pour parler du traducteur. La question du rôle du traducteur se pose alors par rapport à l’éthique et l’on peut s’interroger sur l’autorité du traducteur, sur ce qu’est une traduction ‘responsable’ et sur les limites éthiques du rôle de traducteur.
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