关键词: 翻译研究; 形象学视角; 他者形象; 自我形象

Abstract:

Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology, a cross-disciplinary anthology published by John Benjamins Publishing in 2015, is a joint effort of translation scholars and imagologists in recent years. It addresses a number of issues and problems in translation studies from the perspective of imagology. The sixteen articles, subdivided into four parts, i.e., translation and historical trajectories of images, translation and the construction of hetero-images, translation and the reconstruction of hetero-images, and translation and auto-images, discuss how national and ethical images are (re)constructed through translation in different periods of history. By studying a number of translation cases across various media and genre such as film, news and prose, the anthology focuses on the synergy between translation activities and image (re)construction on a wide range of levels and highlights previously obscure areas of overlapping between translation and image (re)construction. The work brings to the fore all kinds of endeavors that translators have made in image transfer and reconstruction and thus puts forward the “imagological approach” as a significant new approach and “image” as a key domain of research in translation studies. Generally, the interconnection between translation studies and imagology is expected to help to remove their respective blind spots and extend the field of inquiry of translation studies.

Keywords: translation studies; imagological approach; hetero-image; auto-image