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How to be a (recognized) translator

Rethinking habitus, norms, and the field of translation

 | Unit of Culture Research, Tel Aviv University
Published online: 23 March 2006
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Focusing on translators as a cultural-professional group, this article mobilizes the Bourdieusian concepts of field and habitus for explaining the tension between the constrained and the versatile nature of translators’ action, as determined by their cultural group-identification and by their position in their specific field of action. Emphasizing the basic parameter of status contests and struggle for symbolic capital, it elaborates on three important aspects of translators’ differentiating self-images and strategies of action, using examples from the field of Hebrew translation in contemporary Israel: (1) the variability of strategies translators employ while playing either conservative or innovative roles, as cultural custodians or cultural importers, in specific historical contexts; (2) the dynamic construction and stratification of the field of translation, which results from the endeavor to establish its autonomous source of prestige, oscillating between impersonal professional status and an artistic-like personal “stardom”; and (3) translators’ preferred models of self-fashioning, according to which they select and signify the facts of their life-conditions and use them for improving their status and terms of work.
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Cet article a pour objet les traducteurs envisagés en tant que groupe culturel-professionnel. Il convoque les concepts d’habitus et de champ pour expliquer la tension entre la nature coercitive et flexible de l’action traductive, cette tension étant créée par l’identification des traducteurs comme groupe culturel et par leur positionnement dans leur champ d’action spécifique. En prenant comme points de référence la contestation de leur statut et leur lutte pour le capital symbolique, nous étudions trois aspects des auto-images différenciatrices et des stratégies d’action des traducteurs. Les exemples sont choisis dans le domaine des traductions en hébreu élaborées de nos jours en Israël : (1) le caractère variable des stratégies déployées par les traducteurs lorsque ceux-ci jouent, dans des contextes historiques spécifiques, des rôles tour à tour conservateurs ou novateurs, en tant que gardiens ou importateurs culturels ; (2) la construction dynamique et la stratification du champ de la traduction, qui résultent de leurs efforts pour fonder un prestige propre, oscillant entre le statut professionnel impersonnel et le ‘vedettariat’ de type artiste ; (3) l’auto-modélisation, qui consiste à élire et à douer de signification des données de la vie réelle, au service d’un relèvement du statut et des conditions de travail des traducteurs.
Article outline
  • 0.Introduction
  • 1.Translators’ habitus, norms, and the question of submissiveness
  • 2.The field of translation and the question of its autonomy
  • 3.What it takes to be a translator
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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