Lost in Translation? Try Second Language Learning: Understanding Movements of Ideas and Practices across Time and Space
Lost in Translation? Try Second Language Learning: Understanding Movements of Ideas and Practices across Time and Space
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01386.x
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
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0.5
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Demir, Ipek
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作者：
Demir, Ipek
本文认为，互动，协商和交流跨越边界的知识系统，无论是纪律，道德框架，文化或意识形态，通过关注“翻译”和“第二语言学习”作为认识工具。本文首先阐述了以不可译性为核心的不可译性理论。文章接着提出了另一种“互动认识论”，即“第二语言学习论”，认为它更适合于描述思想和实践在空间和时间上的运动。它认为，虽然翻译存在一对一可映射性的困难，而且有时忽视了它在促进权力关系方面的作用，但“第二语言学习论文”的目的是（1）捕捉边界、互动、越界的社会构成本质，交流（和突袭）;（2）注意第二语言学习的不同类型和层次（从“皮钦语”到双语）;（3）在可能的情况下，揭示互动的不对称性质，包括认识论和语言霸权。在这样做的时候，它把注意力转向“排斥战略”和“包容战略”，以维持文化和学科之间的边界，无论它们是在时间上还是空间上分开的。
This article considers interaction, negotiation and exchange across the borders of systems of knowledge, be they disciplines, moral frameworks, cultures or ideologies, by focusing on "translation" and "second language learning" as epistemic tools. It does this by first elaborating the incommensurability thesis which is centred on the notion of untranslatability. The article then proposes an alternative "epistemology of interaction", namely the "second language learning thesis" as more suitable for describing the movement of ideas and practices across space and time. It argues that whilst translation is embedded in difficulties of one-to-one mappability, and at times ignorant of its role in facilitating power relations, "the second language learning thesis" aims to (1) capture the socially constituted nature of borders, interactions, transgressions, exchanges (and raids); (2) draw attention to the different types and layers of second language learning (from "pidgins" to bilingualisms) and (3) lay bare, where possible, the asymmetric nature of interactions, including epistemological and linguistic hegemony. In so doing, it turns attention to "strategies of exclusion" and "strategies of inclusion" in the policing of borders between cultures and disciplines, whether they are separated temporally or spatially.