The Habsburg Monarchy's Many-languaged soul : : translating and interpreting, 1848-1918 / / Michaela Wolf, author ; Kate Sturge, translator.

• Superior document: Benjamins translation library
• VerfasserIn: Wolf, Michaela,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Benjamins translation library.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In the years between 1848 and 1918, the Habsburg Empire was an intensely pluricultural space that brought together numerous "nationalities" under constantly changing - and contested - linguistic regimes. The multifaceted forms of translation and interpreting, marked by national struggles a...

Table of Contents

• The Habsburg Monarchy's Many-Languaged Soul;
• Editorial page;
• Title page;
• LCC data;
• Table of contents;
• List of figures;
• List of tables;
• Introduction;
• Chapter 1. Locating translation sociologically;
• 1. Scholarship and society in the context of translation;
• 2. Translation studies"going social"?;
• Chapter 2. Kakania goes postcolonial;
• 1. Locating "Habsburg culture";
• 2. The "cultural turn" and its consequences;
• 3. Translation as a contribution to the construction of cultures;
• 4. The concept of "cultural translation";
• 5. A tentative typology of translations. Polycultural communication and polycultural translationTranscultural translation;
• Chapter 3. The Habsburg Babylon;
• 1. The multiculturalism debate, Kakania style;
• 2. Does the state count heads or tongues?;
• 3. Language policy promoting ethnic rapprochement;
• 4. The polylingual book market;
• Chapter 4. Translation practices in the Habsburg Monarchy's "great laboratory";
• 1. Polycultural communication;
• Habitualized translation;
• Servants;
• Craftspeople;
• Tauschkinder;
• Institutionalized translation;
• The ban on compulsory second language use in the classroom. The army as the "great school of multilingualism"The administration the Monarchy's "hall of languages";
• 2. Polycultural translation;
• Contact between government offices and the public;
• Interpreting and translating in court;
• Sworn court interpreters;
• Translating in court;
• Translating legislative texts;
• The Terminology Commission;
• The Reichsgesetzblatt Editorial Office;
• Translation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of War;
• Section for Ciphers and Translating;
• The Literary Bureau;
• The Evidence Bureau;
• General correspondence after the Compromise of 1867. 3. The training of dragomans4. The contribution of translation practices to the construction of cultures;
• Chapter 5. Theoretical sketch of a Habsburg translational space;
• Chapter 6. "Promptly, any time of day": The private translation sector;
• 1. Commercial translation and its institutionalization;
• 2. Battling for positions in the commercial translation sector;
• Chapter 7. "Profiting the life of the mind": Translation policy in the Habsburg Monarchy;
• 1. Factors regulating translation policy;
• Censorship;
• Copyright;
• Bookseller licensing;
• 2. State promotion of culture and literature. 3. Literary prizesChapter 8. "The Habsburg "translating factory": Translation statistics;
• 1. The bibliographical data;
• Polycultural translation;
• Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian;
• Hungarian;
• Slovakian;
• Czech ;
• Slovenian;
• Polish;
• Italian;
• Transcultural translation;
• French;
• Portuguese;
• Spanish (Latin America);
• Dutch;
• Swedish;
• Icelandic;
• 2. Analyses;
• 3. Translation between obsession and withdrawal;
• Chapter 9. The mediatory space of Italian-German translations;
• 1. Austrian-Italian perceptions;
• 2. Translations from Italian in the German-speaking area;
• 3. Transformations of the field of translation.