Functional Approaches to Culture and Translation

Selected papers by José Lambert

Edited by Dirk Delabastita, Lieven D’hulst and Reine Meylaerts
University of Namur / K.U. Leuven
This volume contains a generous selection of articles on translation by Professor José Lambert (K.U. Leuven). It traces the intellectual itinerary of their author, who started out as a French and Comparative Literature scholar some four decades ago trying to get a better grip on the problem of inter-literary contacts, and who soon became a key figure in the emergent discipline of Translation Studies, where he is widely known as an indefatigable promoter of descriptively oriented research. This collection shows how José Lambert has never stopped asking new questions about the crucial but often hidden role of language and translation in the world of today. It includes some of the author’s classic papers as well as a few lesser known ones that deserve wider circulation. The editors’ introduction and the bibliography complete this thought-provoking survey of the career of one of the most creative researchers in the field.
[Benjamins Translation Library, 69]  2006.  xxviii, 226 pp.
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Table of Contents

Introduction: José Lambert and descriptive research

into literature, translation and culture
ix–xxii

Editorial note
xxiii

Acknowledgments
xxv
Tabula gratulatoria
xxvii–xxviii

Traduction et technique romanesque (1977)
1–14

Production, tradition et importation: une clef pour la

description de la littérature et de la littérature en traduction (1980)
15–21

L’éternelle question des frontières: littératures

nationales et systèmes littéraires (1983)
23–35

On describing translations (with Hendrik Van

Gorp, 1985)
37–47

Twenty years of research on literary translation at the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1988)
49–62

In quest of literary world maps (1991)
63–74

Shifts, oppositions and goals in translation studies:

towards a genealogy of concepts (1991)
75–85
Literatures, translation and (de)colonization (1995)
87–103
Translation, systems and research: the contribution of polysystem studies to translation studies (1995)
105–130

Problems and challenges of translation in an age of

new media and competing models (1997)
131–145
From translation markets to language management: the implications of translation services (with Johan Hermans, 1998)
147–162

Cultural studies, the study of cultures and the

question of language: facing / excluding the new millennium (2000)
163–171

La traduction littérature comme problème belge, ou la

littérature comme traduction (CETRA, 2004)
173–198

BIBLIOGRAPHY
199–218

(1) Publications by José Lambert
199–207

(2) Other references
207–218

Name index
219–221
Subject index
223–225

Quotes

“This Festschrift collection provides a memorable profile of the scholarly career (to date) of José Lambert, and at the same time serves the useful purpose of bringing together in a single volume a representative selection of thirteen papers in English and French that were originally published in different journals and books. The book is a fine salute to one of the most influential figures of contemporary Translation Studies. The papers have been reformatted, given a unified bibliography and "lightly edited", but the author's inimitable remains. The editors contribute an exellent introductory chapter on "José Lambert and descriptive research into literature, translation and culture", and at the end of the book there is a complete list of Lambert's own publications up to 2005, a name index and a subject index. [...] José Lambert has become more than a catalyst; he has surely become an institution in his own right, and this collection does him credit.”
Andrew Chesterman, Helsinki, in Target Vol. 20:2 (2008)

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

Translation & Interpreting Studies

BIC Subject

CFP: Translation & interpretation

BISAC Subject

LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2006043017
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