Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures

意大利为翻译文化的研究提供了一个特殊的例子。在国家作为一个民族国家的150年历史中，被认定为意大利人的社区在世界各地形成，而在过去的30年里，意大利也成为来自各种民族，宗教和种族背景的移民的目的地国。所有这些社区都塑造了“意大利性”在国内和国外的理解方式，同时有助于在明显不同于意大利的语言和文化背景下形成地方身份。该项目将研究定义现代意大利文化发展及其与地球仪其他文化互动的流动形式。它将集中在一系列典型案例，代表意大利流动的地理，历史和语言地图。它将着眼于意大利社区建立在英国，美国，澳大利亚，南美洲;在殖民定居在非洲;以及当代意大利的移民社区。该项目将重点关注每个社区已经形成的文化协会，研究出版物和材料的财富-期刊，文学，生活故事，照片，纪念品收藏，和其他形式的代表-与这些组织有关。它将调查翻译的过程，这是明显的，在每一个层次的社区的问题，并表征所有的文本/视觉材料与他们相关。它将分析选择以东道社区的语言或原籍国的语言写作的意义;语言代码的混合。它将侧重于文本和材料在社区内外的流通，研究它们对民族认同概念的影响。在该项目深入了解跨国意大利文化的同时，它将为整个现代语言学科建立一个新的框架，其中将文化互动的研究视为其最重要的特征。该项目将汇集来自现代语言不同学科领域的研究人员，并展示与其他艺术和社会科学学科研究联系的重要性。为了实现这一目标，该项目将制作一部关于文化翻译理论和实践的重要学术著作，为现代语言专业的学生制作一本关于文化和翻译的读物，并建立一个网站，作为这一主题相关工作的中心。它还将通过促进学科专家和政策制定者之间的公开辩论来提高公众对现代语言的理解。研究成果旨在产生新的框架，以解决当代对语言/地理/文化流动性的担忧，它们将发挥重要的教学功能，并将明显有利于更广泛的社区。这些出版物包括经过编辑的五卷，明确旨在推广研究民族语言和文化及其相互关系的新方法;三个讲习班;两个国际会议和一个将在国际各地举办的展览;网站将为上述出版物和活动提供互动环境。博士和博士后项目的高度跨学科性质旨在培养新一代研究人员，提高跨文化和跨语言意识的技能。该项目的跨学科性质，它解决了新的资源，并建立了新的研究框架，将翻译和流动性置于当代文化研究的中心。这些产出的传播旨在在中等和高等教育的每一级进行，并具有明确的公共政策影响。

Italy offers an exceptional example for the study of translating cultures. In the 150 year history of the country as a nation state, communities identified as Italian have formed all over the world, while in the last 30 years Italy has also become a destination country for migrants from a variety of national, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All these communities have shaped the way in which 'Italianness' is understood within the nation and beyond its confines, while contributing to the formation of local identities in linguistic and cultural contexts markedly different from Italy.The project will examine the forms of mobility that have defined the development of modern Italian culture and its interactions with other cultures across the globe. It will concentrate on a series of exemplary cases, representative of the geographic, historical and linguistic map of Italian mobility. It will look at the Italian communities established in the UK, the US, Australia, South America; at colonial settlement in Africa; and at the migrant communities in contemporary Italy.Focussing on the cultural associations that each community has formed, the project will examine the wealth of publications and materials - journals, literature, life stories, photographs, collections of memorabilia, and other forms of representation - that are associated with these organizations. It will investigate the processes of translation that are evident at every level of the communities in question and that characterize all the textual/ visual material associated with them. It will analyse the significance of the choice of writing in the language of the host community or in that of the country of origin; the hybridization of linguistic codes. It will focus on the circulation of texts and materials within the communities themselves and beyond, examining the impact they have on notions of national identity.At the same time as the project develops insights into transnational Italian cultures, it will produce a new framework for the discipline of Modern Languages as a whole, one which sees the study of the interaction of cultures as its most essential characteristic. The project will bring together researchers from the different subject areas of Modern Languages and show the importance of the connection with research in other arts and social science disciplines. In order to achieve this aim, the project will produce a major work of scholarship on the theory and practice of cultural translation, a reader on culture and translation for students of Modern Languages and a website which functions as a hub for related work on this theme. It will also serve to enhance public understanding of Modern Languages by fostering public debate between discipline specialists and policy makers.The research outputs are intended to produce new frameworks to address contemporary concerns regarding linguistic/ geographical/ cultural mobility, they will serve an important pedagogical function, and will be of clear benefit to the wider community. They consist of five edited volumes, explicitly intended to further new methods of studying national languages and cultures and their inter-relation; three workshops; two international conferences and an exhibition to be staged at a variety of international locations; the website will provide an interactive context for the above publications and activities. The highly inter-disciplinary nature of the PhD and post-doctoral projects are intended to prepare a new generation of researchers in advancing skills of inter-cultural and inter-lingual awareness. The inter-disciplinary nature of the project, its addressing of new resources and its establishment of new research frameworks which locate translation and mobility at the centre of the study of contemporary cultures. The dissemination of the outputs is designed to take place at every level of secondary and higher education and to have clear public policy implications.