The Place of a Literary Translator in the Globalised World. Reflections in Light of Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity Idea

• Authors: Beata Piecychna

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of this paper is to present the results of a questionnaire study on the everyday functioning of a group of literary translators within the Polish publishing industry. Building on Zygmunt Bauman’s idea of liquid modernity, the author of the study makes an attempt to demonstrate that the new reality of the translation industry leads to the emergence of a new style of communication within the publishing industry and of a new characterisation of the professional literary translator. The author will also try to show a translators’ status in the contemporary cultural and social agenda of the 21st century.

Keywords

EN

sociology of translation; literary translators; Zygmunt Bauman; liquid modernity; globalisation

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 246-264

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Beata Piecychna

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2076596