Translation as Metaphor

In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new, overlapping theoretical territories and the many cross-disciplinary movements they imply. In five chapters, this book examines: the main metaphor theories developed in the West; the way the notion of metaphor relates to the concept of translation; different theoretical perspectives on metaphors of translation in translation studies; the main metaphors developed to describe translation in the West and in the East; spatial metaphors within translation studies, cultural studies and postcolonial theory; the use of the metaphor of translation across psychoanalysis, anthropology and ethnography, postcolonial theory, history and literature, sociology, media and communication theory, medicine and genetics. Comprehensive analysis of key metaphor theories, revealing examples from a wide range of sources and a look towards future directions make this a must-have book for students, researchers and translators working in the areas of translation and translation theory.

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction I. Metaphor and Its Relationship to Translation II. Metaphors for Translation III. From Spatial Metaphors of Translation to Translation as a Spatial Metaphor IV. Translation as Metaphor in Psychoanalysis, Anthropology and Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory, History and Literature V. Translation as Metaphor in Sociology, Media and Communication Theory, Medicine, Genetics and Interdisciplinary Exchanges Conclusion References

Rainer Guldin is Lecturer for German Language and Culture at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Switzerland). His publications include Political Landscapes: On the Relationship between Space and National Identity (2014) and The Language of the Sky: A History of the Clouds (2006).