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Diacronia 2, July 17, 2015, art. A20 (p. 1–13)https://doi.org/10.17684/i2A20en

Some reflections on Romanian translation studies

Magda Jeanrenaud

Affiliations

Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Bd. Carol I 11, 700506 Iași, Romania

History

Received June 1, 2015
Accepted June 18, 2015
Published July 17, 2015

Key words

translation studies
translation practice
central language
peripheral language
symbolic field
globalization

Motto

“One should never pass over in silence the question of the tongue in which the question of the tongue is raised and into which a discourse on translation is translated”. (Jacques Derrida)

Abstract

In this paper, I decided to examine two “verdicts” on the specificity (or the lack of specificity) of Romanian translation studies in order to define and explain the present situation in this field: one given in the Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, the other in a book on “Romanian translation ideas and meta-ideas”. I believe that the current situation justifies the following hypothesis: the current specific of translation theories in the Romanian space is entailed by the existence of two circuits. The first is academic and international, aiming at including the Romanian research in European directions, by assimilating them more or less. The second is a national circuit—where the positions expressed within the first circuit penetrate indirectly, through “central” languages—and it manifests itself as selective and elective affinities between the two; their interaction is sporadic and it occurs mainly through other languages, not through an interiorization process related to the language of the Romanian source space.

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    Text:Jeanrenaud, M. (2015). Some reflections on Romanian translation studies, Diacronia 2 (July 17), A20 (1–13), https://doi.org/10.17684/i2A20en
    BibTeX:@ARTICLE{jeanrenaud2015,
     author = {Magda Jeanrenaud},
     title = {Some reflections on Romanian translation studies},
     journal = {Diacronia},
     ISSN = {2393-1140},
     year = {2015},
     month = {July},
     number = {2},
     eid = {A20},
     doi = {https://doi.org/10.17684/i2A20en},
     pages = "(1–13)",
     url = {https://www.diacronia.ro/journal/issue/2/A20/en}
    }

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