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- Title
Talking translation: Is gender an issue?
- Authors
Zethsen, Karen Korning; Askehave, Inger
- Abstract
It is a well-known fact that most translators are women and it is a fact which is often mentioned in translation discourse: translation is a so-called female occupation. But is this also a relevant fact and in which ways? In this article we aim to investigate how male and female translators talk about their occupation and whether gender is a relevant factor in how translators perceive their work. Our data consists of 18 narratives written by nine male and nine female non-literary professional translators who have been asked to write about their occupation as translators (in a semi-structured way). The data will be analysed and our findings structured by means of Greimas' actantial model. A general conclusion is that whereas male and female translators choose to talk about the same themes they sometimes talk about them in different ways emphasising different aspects.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages; TRANSLATIONS; GENDER differences (Psychology); TRANSLATORS; DISCOURSE; DATA analysis
- Publication
Gender & Language, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
1747-6321
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/genl.v7i1.117