Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence: Who is having a say?

Hanne Jansen

Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence: Who is having a say?

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

Abstract

The aim of this study is to shed light on questions of “multiple translatorship”
and particularly on translation collaboration processes. The empirical
material consists of more than three hundred e-mails exchanged between
two co-translators who translated Claudio Magris’s novel Alla cieca (2005)
into Danish. The theoretical framework presents a double perspective
through which the e-mail correspondence is studied: on the one hand, as an
ethnographic “thick description” (focusing on translation as an event), with
the aim of uncovering who the agents involved are, how they interact, and
what their impact is on the final product; and on the other, as a “think-aloud
correspondence” (focusing on translation as a cognitive act), with the aim
of shedding light on the two translators’ strategies of problem solving and
decision-making.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Textual and Contextual Voices in Translation
Editors	Cecilia Alvstad, Annjo Klungervik Greenall, Hanne Jansen, Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov
Number of pages	24
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication date	2017
Pages	133-158
ISBN (Print)	9789027258847
Publication status	Published - 2017

Series	Benjamins Translation Library
Volume	137
ISSN	0929-7316

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Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence: Who is having a say? / Jansen, Hanne.
Textual and Contextual Voices in Translation. ed. / Cecilia Alvstad; Annjo Klungervik Greenall; Hanne Jansen; Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. p. 133-158 (Benjamins Translation Library, Vol. 137).

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