Translation and Ideology: A Descriptive Study of Iranian Governmental Publishers - Softcover

Mirsafian, Leila S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659314854 ISBN 13: 9783659314858

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Production, distribution, and consumption of books in Iran are fundamentally different from what happens in the West and has a process of its own. Drawing on Bourdieu, Heilbron and Sapiro, Venuti, and Lefevere, this descriptive study tries to reveal the process of exercising governmental power on and the cultural policymaking in the subordinate cultural institutions in Iran. The manner of choosing books for translation, observation of copyright, awards, selecting the translator, financial affairs, distribution procedures, and the consumers of translated books, all are the questions that the author has tried to explain with reference to the established ideology and the structural relations among influential factors and agents in the process of translation.

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About the Author

Leila Mirsafian graduated in MA Translation Studies from University of Isfahan. She teaches English at Azad University of Khorasgan (Isfahan). She has translated Genre (The New Critical Idiom) by John Frow, and co-translated Why Are Artists Poor? by Hans Abbing, into Farsi.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3659314854
• ISBN 13: 9783659314858
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184