Translation Politicised and Politics Translated

This volume presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the different ways in which the two terms «politics» and «translation» interact. It affords an opportunity to look at translation as a highly complex activity that involves the participation of different agents with different backgrounds, orientations, ideologies, competences, goals and purposes. At the macro level, translation is seen as an activity carried out by gatekeepers – translators, trans-editors, translation quality controllers, translation project managers, and the like – to promote a certain narrative, achieve a goal or pursue an agenda. The ultimate aim of this volume is to shed light on how these various stakeholders explicitly or implicitly interpolate their cultural background, beliefs and values into the resulting text, thus overtly or covertly intervening to promote a certain theme or narrative.

Ali Almanna obtained his PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Durham in the UK and is currently Associate Professor of Translation Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar, where he teaches and supervises MA and PhD students. In addition to numerous articles published in peer reviewed journals, he is the author, (co-)editor and translator of several publications, including The Routledge Course in Translation Annotation (2016), Semantics for Translation Students (2016), The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation (2018), The Arabic-English Translator as Photographer (2019), Reframing Realities through Translation (2020), and Translation as a Set of Frames (2021). He is also the series editor of Routledge Studies in Arabic Translation.

Juliane House is Professor Emerita at Hamburg University, Distinguished University Professor at the Hellenic American University and the Hungarian Research Centre of Linguistics, as well as Visiting Professor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages and Beijing University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include translation, contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness, applied linguistics and English as a lingua franca. She has published widely in all these areas and her latest books include Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures (2016), Translation: The Basics (2018), Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (2021, with D. Kadar), and Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse: A Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English (2022, with W. Edmondson and D. Kadar).