Situatedness and Performativity

Raquel Pacheco Aguilar is postdoctoral researcher in translation studies and member of the research group 'Politics of Translation' at the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Marie-France Guenette is assistant professor of translation studies in the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Translation at Universite Laval.

• Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring translation and interpreting as “practice” Raquel Pacheco Aguilar & Marie-France GuénettePart 1 Translation and Interpreting Practices and Their Political EffectsPerformative Translation and Identity, from Poetics to Politics Audrey CanalèsNews Translation as (Re)framing: A Critical Framing Analysis of the 2014 Hong Kong Protests in Reference News Yuan PingA Different Story for a Different Readership: A Skopos Approach to the Translation of Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s Alienación Ellen LambrechtsPart 2 People Involved in Translation Events“Handy, the Middlemen!”: Mediating Afrikaans Literature in the Low Countries Marike van der Watt Publishers, Translators, and Literature Foundations: The Selection, Reception, and Image Building of Translated Literature from the Low Countries to Italy Paola GentileThe Making of a Translator’s Brand in International Literary Exchanges: The “Discoverer” Howard Goldblatt Wenqian ZhangPart 3 The Temporal and Spatial Situatedness of TranslationRestoration Through Historicist Translation Marie-France GuénetteTranslation and Culture Planning in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A Study of State Actors as Planners Ehsan AlipourDeconstructing the Tensions Brought on by Cultivating Translators and Interpreters Raquel Pacheco AguilarIndex