POSTCOLONIAL TENDENCIES IN TRANSLATION IN THE LIGHT OF CENTRE-PERIPHERY PRE-CONCEPTUAL IMAGE SCHEMA

• Authors: Patrycja Karpińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

One of the main characteristics of translation is that it can be called everything but stable; multiple cultural, social, political, and economic processes are reflected in translation. Postcolonial studies in translation deal with, among others, cultural and linguistic hegemonies as well as strong and weak – or central and peripheral – cultures and the relations between them. Many of the theories (Even-Zohar, 1979; Tymoczko, 1999) state that strong cultures set an example whereas weak cultures attempt at following this example, even at the cost of their own values and culture (so-called foreignization in translation). It is significant to ask oneself why such processes take place. The investigation of the pre-conceptual image schemata of CENTRE-PERIPHERY and PLUS-MINUS polarity of the SCALE sheds some light on the nature of these interactions (Krzeszowski, 1997).

Keywords

EN

postcolonialism; foreignization; domestication; pre-conceptual image schemata; centre; peripheries

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 328-339

Dates

published

2016-09-10

Contributors

author

Patrycja Karpińska

• Institute of English Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Wrocław, ul. Kuźnicza 22, Wrocław

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15503/jecs20162.328.339