Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics His
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Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Editor Mohammed Albakry English and Applied Linguistics Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-53747-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53748-1
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Foreword
Translation studies, as a relatively new discipline when it emerged in the 1960s as an academic field in its own right, survived at first on the margins of the humanities and social sciences. Since the early years of the twenty-first century, the field has secured a position at the center of the humanistic enterprise. The forces of globalization and the countless linguistic and cultural encounters in the contemporary world have doubtless spurred its development, as have new insights into language and culture in the academy. Translation studies have now begun to spur academic as well as practical interest in a wide range of fields, energizing research and curricula throughout the humanities and stimulating major research universities in the United States and abroad to resume or initiate degrees and programs in translation studies. Furthermore, the academy has come to embrace translation as a large interdiscipline that encompasses the arts, the humanities, social sciences and computer sciences. This new approach rewards institutions and scholars handsomely by truly internationalizing the c
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