Rethinking translation in the 21st century

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2009.1.2
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Translation, Neutrality, Ideology, Culture

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María del Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
Aída Martínez-Gómez Gómez (trans.)

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In the latest decades the concept of translation has dramatically changed: we have gone from absolute equivalence to a widening of the definition of this field which sometimes reaches unforeseen limits. Translation certainly reflects the kind of society which produces it and, thus, it is hardly surprising that a culture like the western one – contradictory, hybrid and enriched thanks to migration but at the same time burdened with problems arising from cross-cultural clashes – offers a definition of translation as a never-neutral and ethically-complex process. The different current theories provide much help when pondering over these issues and reflect the choices which we, translators, constantly make, our negotiations and the margins of (in)fidelity between which we move, always around a core meaning which is no longer universal.

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Vidal Claramonte, M. del C. África, & Martínez-Gómez Gómez (trans.), A. (2014). Rethinking translation in the 21st century. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (1), 39–48. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2009.1.2
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No. 1 (2009): A (Self-)Critical Perspective of Translation Theories / Una visión (auto)crítica de los estudios de traducción
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