Incubation, birth and growth
Observations on the first 20 years of Target
Published online: 16 December 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.21.2.00tou
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.21.2.00tou
Twenty years in the life of an academic journal is justification enough for stocktaking, be it ever so tentative; the more so as, in the case at hand, the anniversary coincides with a major change of editorship. I would also like to think that the time is ripe for some patting on the proverbial back, even if it is I who is both doing the patting as well as offering the back to be patted. In what follows, a series of half-baked observations evolving around Target’s first twenty years will be made towards a sociocultural account of the journal and its evolution in time, which, if and when completed, will no doubt constitute an important part of the history of our discipline, which is something we still miss.
Résumé
Vingt ans dans la vie d’une revue savante suffisent pour dresser des bilans,—fussent-ils provisoires ; c’est d’autant plus le cas lorsque cet anniversaire coïncide avec un changement majeur à la tête de la revue. C’est aussi le moment, je pense, de s’accorder une tape proverbiale dans le dos, meme si c’est moi qui tape et qui présente le dos en même temps. Dans ce qui suit, je propose, sous la forme d’un descriptif socioculturel et historique, un ensemble d’observations encore immatures sur les premières vingt années de Target. Cette analyse, si elle peut être complétée, contribuera grandement, à n’en pas douter, à l’histoire de notre discipline, une histoire qui fait toujours défaut.
Article outline
- Impregnation
- Incubation
- Birth
- Growth
- International status
- Contributing countries
- Changes over time
- “Active” vs. “passive” participation
- “Male” vs. “female” authorship
- Book reviews and their significance
- East vs. west
- Long vs. short
- Critical vs. descriptive
- Last Words
- Notes
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2018. Institutionalization of translation studies. In A History of Modern Translation Knowledge [Benjamins Translation Library, 142], ► pp. 179 ff.
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