Prismatic Jane Eyre

棱镜翻译研究链，AHRC资助的创造性多语言计划（2016-20）的一部分，认为翻译是一种创造性的行为。它不是简单地把词从一种语言转换到另一种语言，而是释放多种意符的可能性。我们的研究在《创造性多语言：宣言》、《棱镜翻译》和网站《棱镜简·爱：翻译研究的实验》中展示，展示了翻译如何促进新的表达形式和思想。该网站解释了夏洛特勃朗特的小说如何被翻译成57种语言，并使用文本和翻译的交互式地图和数字可视化来实现这一现象。Prismatic Translation的愿景锁定在更广泛的对话中，将翻译作为一种教育和抱负工具，认识到参与创造性和以学习为重点的活动的学习者在多个层面上受益。我们的合作者Stephen Spender Trust的2019年报告以及MEITS社区语言和社会凝聚力政策简报（2018年）指出了培养和庆祝语言和翻译的好处。斯蒂芬·斯彭德信托基金会特别指出，参与创造性教育和翻译活动的学习者对其他语言和文化的批判意识和理解得到了提高，同时也发展了识字和解码技能。他们断言，提高社区语言的知名度可以提高多语言儿童的自尊心。我们的研究使用Prismatic Jane Eyre网站作为起点，为正在学习现代语言或将英语作为第二语言的学习者（13-19岁）举办翻译和创意写作研讨会和比赛。从网站上生动的例子中，学习者将了解翻译的创造性和实际重要性：这将告知并提高他们自己的语言欣赏，理解和使用。我们的活动将培养创造性的愿望，同时也使学习者能够掌握他们已经知道或正在学习的语言。EAL学习者用社区语言创作诗歌将从他们的语言得到认可中获得社会利益，影响他们的自我价值感和社会凝聚力。研讨会提供了一个知识空间，学习者可以与斯蒂芬·斯彭德信托基金会的翻译人员合作。在研讨会上，学习者将参加练习，这将有助于他们创造翻译和版本的段落从简·爱，或将写诗歌的灵感来自小说的各个方面。学习者还将撰写评论，解释他们在制作作品时的创意和语言选择。该网站密切关注夏洛特勃朗特的小说被翻译成多种语言，将这一过程理解为转变和成长，而不是损失。该网站是一个特别丰富的资源，包含了《简·爱》的所有已知译本的列表，以及一系列展示这部小说在全球扩散的互动地图。它展示了小说中的词语、场景和隐喻在不同语言中的变化。通过对平行段落的比较细读，我们可以注意到文本是如何以不同的方式在不同的语言中重新实现的。该网站为学习者提供了一种独特的语言学习形式，他们可以在其中探索语法和语义，语言政治和历史，文本生产力和翻译机构。该网站被认为是出版棱镜简·爱项目的学术研究的一种手段：它作为学生学习资源和促进创造性翻译潜力，在2000年年底推出后才显现出来。2019.后续资金将使我们有机会优化我们工作的教育潜力。

The Prismatic Translation research strand, part of the AHRC-funded Creative Multilingualism Programme (2016-20), sees translation as a creative act. It is not simply the transference of words from one language to another but the release of multiple signifying possibilities. Our research, presented in the volumes Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto, Prismatic Translation, and the website Prismatic Jane Eyre: An Experiment in the Study of Translations, shows how translation facilitates new expressive forms and ideas. The website explains how Charlotte Brontë's novel has been translated at least 593 times into 57 languages, and uses interactive maps and digital visualisations of the text and translations to bring this phenomenon to life.Prismatic Translation's vision locks into a wider dialogue about translation as an educational and aspirational tool, which recognises that learners involved in creative and translation-focused activities benefit on multiple levels. A 2019 report from the Stephen Spender Trust, our collaborator, and the MEITS Policy Briefing on Community Languages and Social Cohesion (2018) point to the benefits of cultivating and celebrating languages and translation. The Stephen Spender Trust, in particular, notes that learners partaking in creative education and translation activities enjoy heightened critical awareness and understanding of other languages and cultures, whilst also developing literacy and decoding skills. They assert that raising the profile of community languages has the effect of promoting the self-esteem of multilingual children.Our research uses the Prismatic Jane Eyre website as the starting point for workshops and competitions in translation and creative writing for learners (ages 13-19) who are either learning modern languages, or speak English as an additional language. From the examples brought to life on the website, learners will gain an understanding of translation's creativity and practical importance: this will inform and enhance their own language appreciation, comprehension and use. Our activities will foster a sense of creative aspiration, whilst also enabling learners to take ownership of the languages they already know or are learning. EAL learners producing poems in community languages will socially profit from the recognition of their languages, impacting upon their sense of self-worth and sense of societal cohesion.The workshops offer an intellectual space in which learners can work with the Stephen Spender Trust's translators. In the workshops, learners will participate in exercises that will assist them in creating translation and versions of passages from Jane Eyre, or will write poems inspired by aspects of the novel. The learners will also write commentaries explaining their creative and language choices in producing their work.The website looks closely at Charlotte Brontë's novel as it is translated into multiple languages, understanding this process as transformation and growth rather than as loss. The website is an especially rich resource containing a list of every known translation of Jane Eyre, and a series of interactive maps showcasing the novel's global proliferation. It demonstrates how the novel's words, scenes, and metaphors change as they move across languages. Comparative close readings of parallel passages draw attention to how the text is re-realised in different languages in different ways. The website gives learners a distinctive form of language learning in which they may explore grammar and semantics, linguistic politics and history, textual productivity, and the agency of translators.The website was conceived as a means of publishing the Prismatic Jane Eyre project's scholarly research: its potential as a learning resource for schoolchildren and a stimulus to creative translation has only become apparent after its launch in late 2019. Follow-on funding would give us an opportunity to optimize our work's educative potential.