Bourdieu and the Sociology of Translation and Interpreting - 9781900650861

Taylor & Francis

Bourdieu and the Sociology of Translation and InterpretingAuthor(s): Moira Inghilleri\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: St Jerome Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: St Jerome Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781900650861, 978-1900650861\nSynopsis\nBourdieu's key concepts of habitus, field and capital have been adopted or adapted to elaborate the social and cultural nature of translation or interpreting activity, to locate this activity within social structures and social institutions, and to analyse the cultural, historical and political specificity of translation and interpreting practices. This special issue of The Translator explores the emergence and subsequent development of Bourdieu?s work within translation and interpreting studies. Contributors to this volume offer their critical assessment of the force of Bourdieu?s arguments in clarifying, strengthening or challenging existing analyses of the role of the social in translation and interpreting studies. The topics include a consideration .