Translation and Public Policy
Title | Translation and Public Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel González Núñez |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2017-04-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1315521768 |
This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely perspectives and case studies allow for the problematizing and exploration of translation policy, an area that is beginning to come to the attention of scholars. This book offers the first truly interdisciplinary approach to an area of study that is still in its infancy. It thus makes a timely and necessary contribution. As the 21st century marches on, authorities are more and more confronted with the reality of multilingual societies, and the monolingual state polices of yesteryear seem unable to satisfy increasing demands for more just societies. Precisely because of that, language policies of necessity must include choices about the use or non-use of translation at different levels. Thus, translation policy plays a prominent yet often unseen role in multilingual societies. This role is shaped by tensions and compromises that bear on the distribution of resources, choices about language, legal imperatives, and notions of justice. This book aims to inform scholars and policy makers alike regarding these issues.
Making policy move
Title | Making policy move PDF eBook |
Author | Clarke, John |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2015-04-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1447313399 |
Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy’s movement as an active process of ‘translation’, in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and accessible analytical and methodological foundation for examining policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those studying policy processes at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case studies of policies and practices, the book provides a powerful and productive introduction to rethinking policy studies through translation. It ends with a commitment to the possibilities of thinking and doing ‘policy otherwise’.
According to the Book
Title | According to the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert A. Valverde |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2012-10-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9400708440 |
How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to learn in the classroom? According to the Book presents findings from the largest cross-national study of textbooks carried out to date - the curriculum analysis of the 1995 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). This study included a detailed, page-by-page, inventory of the mathematics and science content, pedagogy, and other characteristics collected from hundreds of textbooks in over forty countries. Drawing on these data, the authors investigate the rhetorical and pedagogical features of textbooks to understand how they promote and constrain educational opportunities. They investigate how textbooks are constructed and how they structure diverse elements into prescriptions for teaching practice. The authors break new ground in understanding textbooks in terms of different educational opportunities that they make possible. The book examines policy implications from these new understandings. In particular, conclusions are offered regarding the role of textbooks in curriculum-driven educational reform, in light of their role as promoters of qualitatively distinct educational opportunities.
Ideology, Ethics and Policy Development in Public Service Interpreting and Translation
Title | Ideology, Ethics and Policy Development in Public Service Interpreting and Translation PDF eBook |
Author | Carmen Valero-Garcés |
Publisher | Translation, Interpreting and |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781783097524 |
This collection of new research on public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) focuses on ideology, ethics and policy development. It provides fresh perspectives on the challenges of developing translation and interpreting provision in service contexts and on the tensions between prescribed approaches to ethics and practitioner experience.
Translation Policies in Legal and Institutional Settings
Title | Translation Policies in Legal and Institutional Settings PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Translating and interpreting |
ISBN | 9789461664105 |
This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in both legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from all over the world, it allows for a compelling comparison of attitudes towards translation in varying contexts. It highlights the virtues of integrating different types of expertise in the study of translation policy: theoretical and applied, historical and modern, legal, institutional, and political. It effectively illustrates how a multidisciplinary perspective furthers our understanding of translation policies and unveils their intrinsic link with issues such as multilingualism, linguistic justice, minority rights, and citizenship. In this way, each contribution sheds new light on the role of translation in the everyday interaction between governments and multilingual populations.
Lifestyle Politics in Translation
Title | Lifestyle Politics in Translation PDF eBook |
Author | M. Cristina Caimotto |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 171 |
Release | 2022-08-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1000610209 |
This book investigates the role of translation processes in the shaping and re-shaping of ideological discourse and their impact on the actors involved in the translation process, focusing on institutional texts and their influence on lifestyle issues both public and personal. The volume employs a unique approach in its focus on "lifestyle politics," examining texts produced by political actors, such as international organizations and national governments, and their translations. The book draws on an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating work from translation studies and linguistics with political science and economics, and applies it to English and French versions of the same documents, calling attention to ideological differences across versions. In light of our increasingly globalized world, Caimotto and Raus demonstrate the ways in which globalized discourse undergoes processes of depoliticization and marketization which produce a trickle-down effect on individuals’ personal identities. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation studies, critical discourse analysis, and political science.
Political Discourse, Media and Translation
Title | Political Discourse, Media and Translation PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Schaeffner |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2009-12-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1443817937 |
This volume addresses the role played by translation in international political communication and news reporting and brings to light the usually invisible link between politics, media, and translation. The contributors explore the interrelationship between media in the widest sense and translation, with a focus on political texts, institutional contexts, and translation policies. These topics are explored from a Translation Studies perspective, thus bringing a new disciplinary view to the investigation of political discourse and the language of the media. The first part of the volume focuses on textual analysis, investigating transformations that occur in translation processes, and the second part examines institutional contexts and policies, and their effects on translation production and reception.