Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State

如何在语言、身体、法律和国家的边界上进行严格的理论化和研究，并以多语言的方式有效地代表和评估研究成果？为了回答这个问题，拟议的研究汇集了一个由研究人员和合作者组成的国际多学科团队，致力于一项雄心勃勃的综合创新计划，该计划承诺：(a)改变学术和公众对笔译和口译过程和实践的理解；(b)在使用一种以上语言的情况下发展更有效的研究实践；(c)通过原始形式的知识交流，为决策者以及公共、私营和第三部门组织在公共政策关注的关键领域（教育、卫生和福利、法律、移民和安全）的工作提供信息。这个研究问题来自于与这些领域的利益相关者的持续讨论（建立在通过以前ahrc资助的研究项目建立的网络上），以及最近关于“多语言研究”的创新学术研究，关于边界的跨和多学科研究，以及关于翻译、口译和代表的过程、实践和区域的研究。创新的项目结构有以下组成部分：(a)研究多语言和翻译文化（RMTC）“中心”；(b)五个原始案例研究（涉及英国和美国以及保加利亚、加沙、荷兰、罗马尼亚和塞拉利昂的研究）；(c)创意艺术和翻译文化（CATC）“中心”。列入五个精心挑选的案例研究将有助于记录、分析和比较跨越不同边界和各种地理环境的翻译过程和做法。它们与RMTC（学术）和CATC（绩效）“中心”的联系将确保整合和附加值最大化。这种整体结构提供了在一个单一的、综合的项目中对翻译、解释和表现的过程和实践的新的理论、概念和经验理解的发展，以及在使用多种语言的环境中进行研究时出现的方法、伦理和认识论问题。RMTC“中心”的成员将领导开发综合的概念和方法方法、工具和方法，用于研究边境地区的翻译过程和实践，这些地区的身体经常处于危险、痛苦和/或转型期。他们将与CATC“中心”一起，在整个项目的战略阶段和里程碑上，在现场和远程与团队中的所有研究人员合作，以整理、巩固和改进多语言背景下的研究实践。案例研究是根据下列标准选择的：(i)每项案例研究都集中在一个边界上，在这个边界上发生了研究不足的笔译和口译过程和做法；（ii）每个代表一个多语言研究站点，研究将使用多种语言使用各种方法进行；（iii）每种语言都提供了探索多语言研究的理论、方法和伦理的机会；（iv）每一项都建立在先前资助的研究和具体发现的基础上。对于每个案例研究，所选择的方法都适合于分析该特定背景下的翻译、口译和表述实践。在CATC“中心”，顾问合作伙伴泛非艺术苏格兰将与PI， RMTC“中心”和案例研究调查员在项目的所有阶段合作，将案例研究数据，参与者/研究者叙述和生活史从学术理解和表现的媒介转化为多语言表演和创意艺术。

How can translation and interpretation processes and practices at the borders of language, the body, law, and the state be rigorously theorised and researched, and research findings effectively represented and evaluated, in a multilingual manner? To answer this question, the proposed research brings together an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers and collaborators to work on an ambitious, integrated and innovative programme that promises (a) to transform academic and public understandings of processes and practices of translation and interpretation; (b) to develop more effective research practices in contexts where more than one language is used; and (c) to inform the work of policy makers and public, private and third-sector organisations in key areas of public policy concern (education, health and well-being, law, migration, and security), through original forms of knowledge exchange. The research question has emerged out of ongoing discussion with stakeholders in these fields (building on networks established through previous AHRC-funded research projects) as well as from recent innovative scholarship on 'researching multilingually', inter- and multi-disciplinary research on borders, and research on processes, practices and zones of translation, interpretation and representation.The innovative project structure has the following components: (a) a Researching Multilingually and Translating Cultures (RMTC) 'hub'; (b) five original case studies (involving research in the UK and US, as well as in Bulgaria, Gaza, The Netherlands, Romania and Sierra Leone); and (c) a Creative Arts and Translating Cultures (CATC) 'hub'. The inclusion of five carefully selected case studies will allow for the documenting, analysing and comparing of translation processes and practices across different kinds of border and in a variety of geographical settings. Their linking into the RMTC (academic) and CATC (performance) 'hubs' will ensure integration and the maximisation of the added value. This overall structure provides for the development within a single, integrated project of new theoretical, conceptual and empirical understandings of processes and practices of translation, interpretation and representation, and also of the methodological, ethical and epistemological issues that arise when research is conducted in contexts where more than one language is used.The members of the RMTC 'hub' will lead the development of integrated conceptual and methodological approaches, tools, and methods for researching translation processes and practices at borders where bodies are often at risk, in pain and/or in transition. Together with the CATC 'hub' they will work with all researchers in the team, both in the field and remotely, at strategic stages and milestones throughout the project, to collate, consolidate and improve research practices in multilingual contexts. The case studies have been selected according to the following criteria: (i) each focuses on a border at which under-researched processes and practices of translation and interpretation occur; (ii) each represents a multilingual research site where research will be conducted multilingually using a variety of methods; (iii) each presents opportunities for exploring the theory, methods and ethics of researching multilingually; (iv) each builds on previously funded research and specific findings. For each case study the methods selected are those appropriate for analysing practices of translation, interpretation and representation in that particular context. In the CATC 'hub', the consultant partner, Pan African Arts Scotland, will collaborate with the PI, RMTC 'hub' and case study investigators in all phases of the project to translate the case study data, participant/researcher narratives and life histories from the medium of academic understanding and representation into that of multilingual performance and creative arts.