Torture and Translation in the Multilingual Courtrooms of Early Modern France

Cohen, Paul

doi:10.1086/689037

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“…2. In a study of torture practices in early modern France, Cohen (2016) observes that the written records shift between normal indirect speech in French ('the accused said…') and quoted direct speech in local languages such as Occitan. This is presumed to indicate that the interrogations were conducted in the local language and then translated by the recorder.…”

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Conceptual tools in translation history

Pym¹

2021

The Routledge Handbook of Translation History

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Translation history, which is here taken as including interpreting and audiovisual mediation, needs conceptual tools firstly in order to distinguish itself from other kinds of history, with which it then can and should interact. And if there is a specific circumstance in which those tools need to be special in some way, it is presumably related in part to the nature of the data, both quantitative and qualitative, entering translation history: typically there is an abundance of diverse linguistic information deriving from the comparison of texts, an exceptional degree of unreliability in paratextual pronouncements on those texts, and frequent, albeit not ubiquitous, marginality in the identity and milieux of translators, often requiring the indirect inferences of detective work as one goes further back in time.The following survey of conceptual tools starts from the text-based concepts that seem to be most central to the Western translation studies, then moving to those that are process-based and more susceptible to historicize a wider range of translation forms. Attention will be paid to the inherent essentialism of most of the conceptual tools developed within Western translation studies and to the ways those concepts can run aground when confronted with a wider range of translational data. Some proposals will be made as to how a few basic categorical splits may be redressed in order to embrace a plurality of translation forms, hopefully without dissipating into positions where translation is always already everywhere.

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Section: Spoken Vs Written Vs Mental Translationmentioning

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Conceptual tools in translation history

Pym¹

2021

The Routledge Handbook of Translation History

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Rundle

2018

Benjamins Translation Library

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Repeated, imagined, hearsay

Thomas

2023

JHP

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In this paper, I analyse the representation of reported discourse in testimony from a 1795 conspiracy trial. I present a framework for analysing scribal intervention in discourse reporting and show that, although the transcription conventions of historical criminal proceedings offer the appearance of being objective representations, recorded testimony privileges idealised representations of speech events. In fact, a special status is given to those speech events to which those in the courtroom were not privy, that is, hearsay. When scribes use Direct Discourse to report this type of speech, they are simultaneously marking it as evidence available for judicial decision-making and distancing themselves from the judgment and interpretation process. I show that this is particularly problematic for interpreted testimony. This has implications for both our understanding of historical courtroom processes and the use of trial transcripts for historical sociolinguistic and pragmatic analysis.

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Torture and Translation in the Multilingual Courtrooms of Early Modern France

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Conceptual tools in translation history

Conceptual tools in translation history

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Repeated, imagined, hearsay

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