The Many Contexts of Translation (Studies)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2015-0033
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context co-text linguistic directions in Translation Studies pragmatic directions socio-cultural directions

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Rodica Dimitriu
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

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This article examines the ways in which, in just a couple of decades, and in view of the interdisciplinary nature of Translation Studies, the key notion of context has become increasingly broader and diversified within this area of research, allowing for complex analyses of the translators’ activities and decisions, of translation processes and, ultimately, of what accounts for the meaning(s) of a translated text. Consequently, some (brief) incursions are made into a number of (main) directions of the discipline and the related kinds of contexts they prioritized in investigating translation both as process and product. In the second section of this introductory article, the issue of context is particularized through references to the contributions in this special volume, which add new layers of meaning to context, touching upon further perspectives from which this complex notion could be approached.

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Dimitriu, R. “The Many Contexts of Translation (Studies)”. Linguaculture, vol. 6, no. 1, June 2015, pp. 5-23, doi:10.1515/lincu-2015-0033.
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Author Biography

Rodica Dimitriu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

Rodica Dimitriu is Full Professor at the Department of English and coordinator of the Faculty translation programmes at undergraduate and master’s levels. She is the author of five books, among which Aldous Huxley in Romania(n),Theories and Practice of Translation and The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies and of many articles in the fields of Translation Studies, British literature, Cultural Studies and ELT. She is the editor of several important Translation Studies volumes as well as an editorial or advisory board member of several prestigious international journals of translation (Vita Traductiva, Perspectives. Studies in Translatology, Across Languages and Cultures, ESP across Cultures, etc.); she also coordinates the Translation Studies series at the Institutul European publishing house, Iasi, Romania.

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