The book discusses the relation between translation and power and how it shapes what one ultimately sees in translated texts.

Like many other human activities, translation is related to different forms of power. It can be the ability to control and set the rules. With written translations of significant works of culture, it has often been the powerholders who supported and promoted or impeded them, depending on their own preferences or their understanding of the actual sociopolitical needs. The powerholders in question are individual or collective decision-makers at various levels of the sociopolitical hierarchy who determine policies and allocate funds for approved projects. This book focuses on the possiblities of various approches to translation and power as a research topic within Translation Studies.

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Lucyna Harmon is the head of the Chair of Translation Studies in the Department of English at the University of Rzeszów. Her expertise includes general and literary translation, general and comparative linguistics and intercultural communication. Dorota Osuchowska is a professor at the Department of English Studies, the University of Rzeszów, where she lectures in applied linguistics, lexicography and academic writing. Her research includes dictionary use by learners of English and translation students and description of phraseology in dictionaries.

Inhalt

Agency; Authority; Balance of power; Censorship; Culture; Gender; Exile literature; Ideology; Immigration; Patronage; Politically sensitive contents; Politics; Political systems; Power; Premeditated mistranslation; Translation; Translation studies