Abstract
How can translation be explained as a sociological object? Based on this guiding question, we analyze how to sociologically translate translation, that is, how to sociologize translation practice. We discuss translation as a practice inscribed in a set of social relations (among agents, institutions, for instance) and symbolic orderings (such as literary traditions and social representations of translation) and not purely as a result of an operation between two texts or two languages. Thus, we establish a dialogue with perspectives developed mainly since the late 1990s as part of what has been called the “sociological turn” in Translation Studies.
Keywords
Sociology of Translation; sociologization; sociological turn; Translation Studies