<b>Theory and practice of translation: the translator’s role</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v29i1.134

Abstract

Theory and practice of translation: the translator’s role. In the last decades, particularly, the field of Translation Studies has been experiencing, one might say, a transition period. The complexity of the translation phenomenon was more extensively dealt with when positivist ideals, such as that of the “perfectly ethical” translation, gone way to contextual factors, which conferred a more relativist and scientific character to the field. This article consists of a bibliographical non-extensive study. Some preliminary reflections are developed, based on an analysis of how some authors under this new perspective (Pym, 2005; Venuti, 2002; Arrojo, 1996) approach the role of the translator. The analysis evidenced a growing complexity on the studies here presented when emphasis on the translator was given. One of the studies even brings a proposal suggesting a Sociology of Translators (Pym, 2005), which is to emphasize translators as mediators within their respective social contexts.