Translation and development

Marais, Kobus

doi:10.4324/9781315621289-7

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“…In this regard, all cultural and social phenomena are created through the semiotic actions of translating an object or an interpretant into another object or interpretant (Marais, 2019b). Moreover, Marais (2013Marais ( , 2014Marais ( , 2018Marais ( , 2019a has made a series of contributions to the field of translation and development in recent years, greatly promoting the developments of this interdisciplinary research field. In his monographs, Marais (2014Marais ( , 2019a systematically arranges with the relevant theories of translation studies, semiotics and development studies, proposing a theoretical framework for investigating development as the emergence of societies through real and complex semiotic responses.…”

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“…In this study, the theoretical framework for analysis and discussion is mainly the emergent semiotic response theory proposed by Marais (2014Marais ( , 2017Marais ( , 2018; for this reason, my investigation of translation-development interactions is conducted from the perspective of emergent semiotics. Marais's emergent semiotic approach helps to conceptualize the relationship between translation and development in social and cultural realities.…”

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“…This study aims to explore the translation-development interactions in the GBA from the perspective of emergent semiotics. Following other studies on translation and development (Marais, 2014(Marais, , 2018Olivier de Sardan, 2005), this study views development as a semiotic process of making meaning under specific affordances and constraints in which the meanings include thoughts, emotions, actions and phenomena in a society or a culture. Meanwhile, translations could be viewed as meaningful intercultural mediations or adaptations that transcend language barriers in developing countries and regions.…”

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“…This study aims to explore the translation-development interactions in the GBA from an emergent semiotic perspective. Following the studies on translation and development (Marais, 2014(Marais, , 2018 Olivier de Sarden, 2005), this study views development as a semiotic process of making meaning under specific affordances and constraints, while translations could be regarded as meaningful intercultural mediations or adaptations that help to transcend language barriers and support regional development. Through exploring different translation practices in education, economics and the media, this study analyses how translation plays a mediating role in the development of the GBA in multiple respects.…”

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Exploring the translation–development interactions from an emergent semiotic perspective

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2022

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The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area or GBA), a megalopolis in China, has developed rapidly and achieved remarkable results in recent years. This study aims to explore the translation–development interactions in the GBA from an emergent semiotic perspective. Following the studies on translation and development (Marais, 2014, 2018; Olivier de Sarden, 2005), this study views development as a semiotic process of making meaning under specific affordances and constraints, while translations could be regarded as meaningful intercultural mediations or adaptations that help to transcend language barriers and support regional development. Through exploring different translation practices in education, economics and the media, this study analyses how translation plays a mediating role in the development of the GBA in multiple respects. It first examines the adaptation of curriculum designs of translation courses in the universities of the GBA and then analyses the functions of the translation industry in support of the economic development of the GBA. Finally, it analyses the translations of international publicity material on the tourism websites of the GBA to explore the ways in which translation mediates in the cultural exchanges and coordinated developments regarding the GBA and its component parts. The research findings show that translation practices interact with the developmental contexts at the linguistic, economic and cultural levels, contributing to the coordinated development of the GBA.

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“…It was only within the past decade that attempts were made to engage with the role of (written) translation in development-related scholarship, as evidenced in a few pioneering studies (Footitt, 2017;Marais, 2013Marais, , 2014Marais, , 2018Marais, , 2019Todorova, 2019;Todorova & Ahrens, 2021). These studies have focused on (written) translation in a number of contexts and geographical locales (e.g.…”

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Concordancing DEVELOP* at the Interpreter-mediated Press Conferences

2022

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Thanks to the pragmatist Reform and Opening-up (RoU) program initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China, the largest developing country, has witnessed decades of sustained development and is poised to overtake the United States as the largest economy in the world. RoU is a major watershed in China’s recent history, signaling the beginning of China’s rapid economic development and meteoric rise over the past few decades in the global arena. The broader RoU discourse represents an important overarching metadiscourse, legitimizing China’s miscellaneous developments and policies, economic system, style of governance, and stances for the entire post-1978 period. In particular, ‘development’ is an operative word for and a key component of the RoU, which also constitutes a central and recurring theme throughout the interpreter-mediated premier-meets-the-press conferences in China. Development studies represents a growing and interdisciplinary research area. However, it is rarely explored from a discursive perspective in political interpreting, despite the vital mediating role of interpreters. To bridge this gap, framed within the broader trends of interdisciplinary research and digital humanities, the pragmatist mixed-methods approach of corpus-based critical discourse analysis is applied to the premier-meets-the-press data (1998–2017) to explore the government-affiliated interpreters’ agency and (re)construction of China’s ‘development’ discourse over one-fifth of a century. The study reveals the interpreters’ institutional (over)alignment and frequent strengthening of Beijing’s development discourse in English at different levels using various discursive means. Discursively, this established the interpreters’ role and text ownership in (re)shaping reality, further facilitating China’s development, (re)constructing and disseminating sociopolitical knowledge, and possibly even effecting changes and transformations to the East–West power differentials as vital (re)tellers of the Chinese story. Looking beyond the traditional view of interpreting as a more static and mechanical process in a semi-closed and self-contained system, this article discusses the vital role interpreting plays from a historical, communication, geopolitical and development perspective.

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