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UCL Mellon Programme: Interdisciplinary Seminar 2006-2007

Seminar: 21 February 2007

Professor Mona Baker, the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester (More ...)

Abstract: A Narrative Perspective on Translation and Interpreting in Situations of Conflict

This seminar will draw on the eminently concrete notion of narrative and on the notion of framing, the latter as developed particularly in the literature on social movements, to explore variuos ways in which translators and interpreters accentuate, undermine or modify contested aspects of the narrative(s) encoded in the source text or utterance. ‘Narratives’, in this context, are the stories we tell ourselves and others about the world(s) in which we live – the worlds we construct for ourselves in the form of stories. Narrative is the principal and inescapable mode by which we experience the world.

Using a wide range of authentic source and target texts and utterances, the seminar will explore the various challenges that different types of narrative pose to translators and interpreters, and then examine some of the many ways in which translators and interpreters reframe narratives, particularly in situations of conflict, and in so doing reconfigure patterns of emplotment in the immediate as well as broader narratives that influence our understanding of political conflicts.

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