COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Translation Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLFER TUNALI

Offered to

Translation Studies

Course Objective

The objective of the course is to facilitate the production of a study that approaches the debates in translation studies from a sociological perspective by employing Bourdieu and/or Latour's theoretical frameworks. Consequently, the course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to design and complete a study that conceptualises translation as a social activity.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s)/References/Materials:

Turner, B.S. (ed.). 2006. The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Turner, J.H. 1998. The Structure of Sociological Thought. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990. In Other Words: Essays towards a Reflexive Sociology. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Bourdieu, P. 1993. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press.

Bourdieu, P., and Wacquant, L.J.D. 1992. An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago: Chicago University Press

Chen, L. 2023. `Habitus beyond Bourdieu: In and out of Translation Studies. Perspectives: online. DOI: 10.1080/ 0907676X.2023.2213538

Buzelin, H. 2005. `Unexpected Allies How Latour s Network Theory Could Complement Bourdieusian Analyses in Translation Studies. The Translator, 11(2): 192 _218.

Hanna, S. 2016. Bourdieu in Translation Studies: The Socio- cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt. London and New York: Routledge.

Latour, B. (1996). `On Actor-Network Theory: A Few Clarifications. Soziale Welt, 47(4): 369 81

Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Meylaerts, R. (2013). `The Multiple Lives of Translators. TTR, 26(2):103 28.

Risku, H., and Rogl, R. 2022. `Praxis and Process Meet Halfway: The Convergence of Sociological and Cognitive Approaches in Translation Studies. Translation & Interpreting, 14(2): 32 49. DOI: 10.12807/ ti.114202.2022.a03

Inghilleri, M. (2003). Habitus, field and discourse: Interpreting as a socially situated activity. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies, 15(2), 243-268.

Inghilleri, M. (2005). The sociology of Bourdieu and the construction of the `object in translation and interpreting studies. The translator, 11(2), 125-145.

Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. (2009). The craft of research. University of Chicago press.

Cresswell, J. (2013). Qualitative inquiry & research design: Choosing among five approaches.

Sapiro, G. (2012). Autonomy revisited: the question of mediations and its methodological implications. Paragraph, 35(1), 30-48.

Saldanha, G., & O'Brien, S. (2014). Research methodologies in translation studies. Routledge.

Sapiro, G. (2023). Fields, Markets, Institutions and Networks. In Methodology of Relational Sociology: Approaches and Analyses (pp. 99-115). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Buzelin, H. (2022). Ethnography in Translation Studies: An Object and a Research Methodology. . : , 13(1), 32-47.

Ha as, E. (Ed.). (2023). Methodology of Relational Sociology: Approaches and Analyses. Palgrave Macmillan.

Saldanha, G. (2011). Translator style: Methodological considerations. The Translator, 17(1), 25-50.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, interactive discussion of weekly articles and book chapters, response papers, presentations

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is obligatory. Students are expected to read assigned material and write weekly response papers. They are also responsible to write a term paper based on findings of a wide scale research.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gulfer.tunali@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes