Cornelia Zwischenberger

Larisa Schippel

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of various Eastern European traditions of thought on the subject of translation as well as the discipline of Translation Studies. It sheds a light on how these traditions developed, how they are related to and how they differ from Western traditions. The volume shows nationally-framed histories of translation and Translation Studies and presents Eastern European pioneers and trailblazing thinkers in the discipline. This collection of articles, however, also shows that it is at times hard or even impossible to draw the line between theoretical and/or scientific thinking and pre-theoretical and/or pre-scientific thinking on translation. Furthermore, it shows that our discipline’s beginnings, which are supposedly rooted in Western scholarship, may have to be rethought and, consequently, rewritten.

Going East: Discovering New and Alternative Traditions in Translation Studies

Karlheinz Spitzl

Julia Richter

Stefanie Kremmel

Translationsgeschichtliche und translationsethische Überlegungen sowie die Vorstellung vom Fortleben des Originaltextes in seinen Übersetzungen im benjaminschen Sinne bilden die Stützpfeiler einer transkulturellen Translationswissenschaft. Diese Gedanken ziehen sich wie rote Fäden durch das Werk Larisa Schippels. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes folgen diesen Fäden, verknüpfen sie neu und lassen durch die Verwebung neue Kompositionen entstehen, die erkenntnisbringende Perspektiven eröffnen. So wird deutlich, wie stark die Themenbereiche Ethik, Historizität und Fortleben der Übersetzungen miteinander verschränkt sind und wie groß die Bedeutung der Akteure im Übersetzungsprozess tatsächlich ist.

(Neu-)Kompositionen. Aspekte transkultureller Translationswissenschaft

Martina Behr

The issue of quality in interpreting has been debated for almost three decades now. This volume is evidence of the sociological turn Interpreting Studies is taking on quality research. Based on either a socio-cognitive perspective, a sociological approach, or the situational social variability of the entire source and target context, this volume’s contributions analyse the respective roles of participants in a communicative event and the objective of an equivalent effect. The contributions from Europe, North America, and Australia signal a trend in the research on quality in interpreting: they challenge the concept that “sense” in a communication is a single, stable entity, and instead view it as something constructed in a common effort. This in turn highlights the interpreter’s social responsibility.

Cornelia Zwischenberger

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