{"id":8424,"date":"2012-06-04T08:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8424"},"modified":"2012-06-04T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:28:22","slug":"euro-mediterranean-translation-a-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/euro-mediterranean-translation-a-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro-Mediterranean Translation: a Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arab Literature (in English)<\/a><\/strong> brought my attention to this study of translation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Mapping Translation: Into and Out of\u00a0Arabic<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by mlynxqualey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The big study that resulted from a number of translation reports — into and out of Arabic, Turkish, and Hebrew — is now available on the Anna Lindh Foundation’s<\/a>\u00a0website: “<\/strong>A Mapping of Translation in the Euro-Mediterranean Region<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Lindh folks note in the release: “The study takes into account the entire chain of translation: writers, translators, publishers, booksellers, libraries, translation programmes, media, and covers literary translation in its broadest sense, including part of the translation of human and social sciences, as well as theatre and children’s literature.”<\/p>\n

I have only given it a first skim, but there is much to chew over and much that was expected.\u00a0It is certain that translation both\u00a0out of<\/em> and into<\/em> Arabic, for instance, is on the uptick, for different reasons. Into<\/em>\u00a0Arabic, the range of private-sector operations doing translation has increased: “It is incontestable that translation into Arabic has been growing in the last decade in all domains.”\u00a0Out of\u00a0<\/em>Arabic, well, you know.<\/p>\n

What’s being translated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Translator-scholar Richard Jacquemond made an interesting point about translations into<\/em>\u00a0Arabic, and that is that “non-fiction (…) dominates more and more,\u00a0that is to say, not only what bibliographies classify and a variety\u00a0of human and social sciences, but also what in French is called\u00a0the ‘livre pratique’ or in English ‘self help books’.”<\/p>\n

This is not true in the reverse, where it is literature and religion that dominate translation\u00a0out of\u00a0<\/em>Arabic. (Unfortunately, there are no statistics for English, as only data on literary works was gathered.)<\/p>\n

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