Description:
This book brings together fifteen of Mona Baker's most influential articles, carefully selected and grouped under three main topics that represent her most enduring contributions to the field of translation studies. Essential reading for translation studies scholars, researchers and advanced students.
Review Quotes:
This collection of Mona Baker's scholarly contributions illustrates the eclectic range of her thinking and the sheer excitement of her academic trajectory - corpus studies to socio-narrative theory, to activist translation. With this exciting collection, disciplines beyond translation will be challenged to see how translational approaches widen and subvert the questions they traditionally ask.
Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK.
A genealogy of ideas as well as a cartography of possibilities, Researching Translation chronicles the 'future echoes', to borrow Steiner's phrase, not only of corpus linguistics' practicality for our field but narrative's role as a fruitful interdisciplinary approach and as a force for change and community-building in the world, including in activism, prefigurative practice, social movements, and situations of conflict. At their core the thematics here have in common the specificities of language phenomena with which the translator and interpreter must contend as 'intervenient beings', as Carol Maier called them. This is a vital book for finding historical clarity, research orientation, and personal inspiration.
Kelly Washbourne, Kent State University, USA