ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Ethics offers a comprehensive overview of issues surrounding ethics in translating and interpreting. The chapters chart the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of ethical thinking in Translation Studies and analyze the ethical dilemmas of various translatorial actors, including translation trainers and researchers.

Authored by leading scholars and new voices in the field, the 31 chapters present a wide coverage of emerging issues such as increasing technologization of translation, posthumanism, volunteering and activism, accessibility and linguistic human rights. Many chapters provide the first extensive overview of the topic or present new takes on established areas. The book is divided into four parts, with the first covering the most influential ethical theories. Part II takes the perspective of agents in different contexts and the ethical dilemmas they face, while Part III takes a critical look at central institutions structuring and controlling ethical behaviour. Finally, Part IV focuses on special issues and new challenges, and signals new directions for further study.

This handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation and ethics within translation and interpreting studies, multilingualism and comparative literature.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Ethics and Translation: An Introduction

Part I

Virtue Ethics in Translation

Translation Ethics in the Chinese Tradition

Ethics in Socialist Translation Theories

Functional Translation Theories and Ethics

Ethics in Berman and Meschonnic

The Ethics of Linguistic Hospitality and Untranslatability in Derrida and Ricœur

The Ethics of Postcolonial Translation

Feminist Translation Ethics

Venuti and the Ethics of Difference

Translator Ethics

Part II

Professional Translator Ethics

Literary Translator Ethics

Conference Interpreter Ethics

Ethics in Public Service Interpreting

Ethics of Volunteering in Translation and Interpreting

Ethics of Activist Translation and Interpreting

Translation Technology and Ethics

Translation and Posthumanism

Part III

Ethics Codes for Interpreters and Translators

Ethics in the Translation Industry

Ethics in Translator and Interpreter Education

Ethics of Translator and Interpreter Education

Research Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Part IV

Ethics in Child Language Brokering

Translating and Interpreting in Conflict and Crisis

Ethical Stress in Translation and Interpreting

Linguistic First Aid

Ethics of Translating Sacred Texts

Ethics of Collaboration and Control in Literary Translation

Accessibility and Linguistic Rights

Index