Altered States: Translation and Minority Languages
Altered States: Translation and Minority Languages
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改变的状态：翻译与少数民族语言
DOI：
10.7202/037198ar
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发表时间：
1995
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M. Cronin
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作者：
M. Cronin
变更状态：翻译和少数民族语言-欧洲语言的复杂性往往被忽视在其翻译实践的政治帐户。特别是，在评估少数民族语言使用者可用的翻译策略时，忽略了欧洲少数民族语言的历史经验和当代命运。这一问题的部分原因是未能创造性地思考翻译背景下少数民族语言的定义。这方面包括新技术的层面，可能导致欧洲和其他地方的语言重新分类。翻译的作用，在一个欧洲少数民族语言，爱尔兰盖尔语的情况下，被认为是在较少使用的语言所面临的困境。翻译既受欢迎又令人恐惧。少数民族语文笔译员可选择的办法与多数民族语文笔译员可选择的办法有很大不同。这些差异需要在关于少数民族语言翻译的理论论述中得到反映，但情况往往并非如此。此外，翻译研究作为一门学科，很少反思其自身的主流语言偏见，这种偏见根植于知识传播的学科结构中。少数民族语言不仅对维持人类文化脆弱生态系统的多样性至关重要，而且也提出了翻译研究作为知识探索领域的核心问题。
Altered States: Translation and Minority Languages — The linguistic complexity of Europe is often ignored in political accounts of its translation practice. In particular, the historical experience and contemporary fate of European minority languages are overlooked in assessing the translation strategies available to speakers of minority languages. The problem partly results from a failure to think creatively about definitions of minority languages in a translation context. This context includes the dimension of new technologies which may lead to a new reclassification of languages in Europe and elsewhere. The role of translation in the case of one European minority language, Irish Gaelic, is considered in terms of the dilemmas faced by lesser used languages. Translation is both welcomed and feared. The options available to translators in minority languages differ crucially from those on offer to translators in majority languages. These differences need to be reflected in the theoretical discourse on translation in minority languages but this is not often the case. Furthermore, translation studies as a discipline rarely reflects on its own majority language bias, embedded in the structures of the disciplinary dissemination of knowledge. Minority languages are not only essential to a diversity that sustains the fragile ecosystem of human culture but they also raise questions that lie at the heart of translation studies as an area of intellectual inquiry.