Towards a new methodological approach to social historiography of translation

IF 1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Translation Spaces Pub Date : 2019-01-12 DOI:10.1075/ts.19003.ash

Nasrin Ashrafi, M. Hashemi, Hossein Akbari

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Abstract

In an attempt to appreciate the contribution that social network analysis (SNA) might offer to translation historiography, two main approaches are presented and discussed in this study: explanatory SNA and exploratory SNA. The former is more concerned with SNA measures while the latter deals with three potential narratives of social networks. The aim is to employ SNA in diachronic and synchronic dimensions of literary translation publishing historiography in Iran from 1991 to 2010, a micro-macro framework that seamlessly integrates agents’ relationships, visualization and network analysis techniques to explore the impact of ideological-political shifts on the quantity as well as quality of major agents’ relations. Furthermore, the study attempts to explore how the synergy between Giddens’ Structuration Theory (GST) and SNA can support a deeper and more empirically grounded understanding of translation historiography. The goal of the study is both methodological and scientific. The results of SNA graphical outputs suggest that there is a significant relationship between the structure of relationships in fiction publishing field and the dominant political discourse in Iran.

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翻译社会史学的新方法论研究

为了了解社会网络分析对翻译史学的贡献，本研究提出并讨论了两种主要方法:解释性社会网络分析和探索性社会网络分析。前者更关注SNA措施，而后者处理社交网络的三种潜在叙述。目的是将SNA应用于1991年至2010年伊朗文学翻译出版史学的历时和共时维度，这是一个微观宏观框架，无缝集成了代理人关系、可视化和网络分析技术，以探索意识形态-政治转变对主要代理人关系数量和质量的影响。此外，本研究试图探讨吉登斯的结构理论(GST)和SNA之间的协同作用如何支持对翻译史学更深入、更有经验基础的理解。这项研究的目的是方法论和科学性。SNA图形输出的结果表明，伊朗小说出版领域的关系结构与占主导地位的政治话语之间存在显著关系。

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Translation Spaces LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

4.90

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： Translation Spaces is a biannual, peer-reviewed, indexed journal that recognizes the global impact of translation. It envisions translation as multi-dimensional phenomena productively studied (from) within complex spaces of encounter between knowledge, values, beliefs, and practices. These translation spaces -virtual and physical- are multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual. They are the frontiers being explored by scholars investigating where and how translation practice and theory interact most dramatically with the evolving landscape of contemporary globalization.