What is Translation History?: A Trust-Based Approach

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This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the authors develop an approach to translation that speaks to historians of literature, language, culture, society, science, translation and interpreting. By examining theories of trust from sociological, philosophical, and historical studies, and with reference to interdisciplinarity, the authors outline a methodology for approaching translation history and intercultural mediation from three discrete, concurrent perspectives on trust and translation: the interpersonal, the institutional and the regime-enacted. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation studies, as well as historians working on mediation and cultural transfer. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction: Towards a New Translation History (Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym)....Pages 1-31 On Relationality: Trusting Translators (Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym)....Pages 33-59 On Relativity: Trusting Historians (Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym)....Pages 61-86 On Interdisciplinarity: Trusting Translation History (Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym)....Pages 87-108 Conclusion (Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym)....Pages 109-112 Back Matter ....Pages 113-140