State of Translation: Turkey in Interlingual Relations - Couverture rigide

Livre 12 sur 17: Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics

Wigen, Einar

 
9780472130948: State of Translation: Turkey in Interlingual Relations
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0472130943 ISBN 13 : 9780472130948
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2018

Synopsis

International politics often requires two or more languages. The resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and then legitimize domestically in another. Since no two languages are the same, what can be argued in one language may be impossible in another. Political concepts can thus be significantly reformulated in the translation process. State of Translation examines this phenomenon using the case of how 19th-century Ottoman and later Turkish statesmen struggled to reconcile their arguments in external languages (French, then English) with those in their internal language (Ottoman, later Turkish), and in the process further entangled them. Einar Wigen shows how this process structured social relations between the Ottoman state and its interlocutors, both domestically and internationally, and shaped the dynamics of Turkish relations with Europe.

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À propos de l?auteur

Einar Wigen is Associate Professor of Turkish studies in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo.

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Éditeur
The University of Michigan Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0472130943
ISBN 13 
9780472130948
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
294
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