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Ideology and Cross-Cultural Encounters - Research and Methodology in Translation and Interpreting / Idéologie et les rencontres des cultures - recherche et méthodologie en traduction et interprétation
[FORUM 7:1] 2009
► pp. 61–76

Listening to Strangers

Migrant narrative as the case of cultural translation

| University of Warwick
En dépit des études menées dans le domaine des sciences sociales, les migrants sous souvent représentés à tort comme un groupe homogène qui contribuerait à l’économie du pays d’accueil, ou, au contraire, utiliserait de manière disproportionnèe les ressources de l’Etat providence. Une telle schématisation encourage la formulation d’interprétations simplifiées des transitions migratoires d’une culture à une autre. Nous suggérons que les narratifs des migrants offrent une autre repésentation plus nuancée des expériences migratoires et peuvent fournir un éclairage précieux sur la traduction culturelle et linguistique.
Keywords: language, translation, Migration, multiculturalism, ideology
Published online: 1 April 2009
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