Translation and Translanguaging

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Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice. This book is the first to ask: what can translanguaging tell us about translation and what can translation tell us about translanguaging? Translanguaging originated as a term to characterize bilingual and multilingual repertoires. This book extends the linguistic focus to consider translanguaging and translation in tandem – across languages, language varieties, registers, and discourses, and in a diverse range of contexts: everyday multilingual settings involving community interpreting and cultural brokering, embodied interaction in sports, text-based commodities, and multimodal experimental poetics. Characterizing translanguaging as the deployment of a spectrum of semiotic resources, the book illustrates how perspectives from translation can enrich our understanding of translanguaging, and how translanguaging, with its notions of repertoire and the "moment", can contribute to a practice-based account of translation. Illustrated with examples from a range of languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Czech, Lingala, and varieties of English, this timely book will be essential reading for researchers and graduate students in sociolinguistics, translation studies, multimodal studies, applied linguistics, and related areas. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: A dialogue Chapter 2 Why translanguaging? Introduction Three vignettes Struggling with the warp and woof of language From language to languaging Disinventing language(s) And so translanguaging Translanguaging repertoires Language from below Translanguaging: Beyond multilingual interaction From intersemiotic translation to multimodality Beyond interlingual/intralingual/intersemiotic translanguaging Translanguaging as a tool for thinking with Multilingualism from below: Tales from the Sydney fruit and vegetable market Translanguaging and the mind: Linguistic multicompetence Issues and puzzles Chapter 3 Translation and translanguaging: Tensions and synergies Introduction Conceptual schemas Two examples from Japanese On the “moment” Tensions Synergies Examples from World Englishes Conclusion Notes Part I Chapter 4 Interlingual translanguaging: The case of community interpreting Introduction Translanguaging in a community interpreting event The interpreting event Drafting a letter in Standard Czech Informal interpreting in an immigration advice consultation Discussion Google Translate as mediator Discussion Conclusion Chapter 5 Intralingual and interdiscursive translanguaging: Cultural brokering as repertoire Introduction Intralingual translanguaging: Klára rewriting Mr Tancoš’s letter Register work as translanguaging: Explaining complex legal terms and processes Interdiscursive translanguaging: Answering an Equal Opportunities question on sexual orientation Interdiscursive translanguaging: Working up a business plan Discussion Conclusion Chapter 6 Intersemiotic translanguaging: The visual, the verbal, and the body Introduction Visual-verbal modes interacting: Some illustrations Spatial repertoires and assemblages Intersemiotic and embodied translanguaging in sport: capoeira and basketball Capoeira: The body at play The pattern of capoeira moves in the roda Basketball: A space of play Discussion and conclusion Part II Chapter 7 Translanguaging in cyberpoetics When translanguaging disturbs John Cayley’s cybertranslational poetics Conclusion: A virtual theatre of translanguaging Notes Chapter 8 Translanguaging as spectacle in text-based art Translanguaging and the imagetext Ludic translation: Gu Wenda’s Forest of Stone Steles Tracing the alphabet through the character: Xu Bing’s Square Word Calligraphy Adulterating the Bible: Post Testament Conclusion Notes Chapter 9 Concluding dialogue: What have we learnt? Bibliography Index