Birth of a discipline?

  • Baer B
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Abstract

This article proposes four characteristics that define a field of study as an academic discipline and then applies them to early Soviet efforts regarding the study of translation, referred to as perevodovedenie. The article focuses on the scholarly activity of two Soviet cultural institutions of the 1920s, the State Academy for Artistic Sciences, in Moscow, and the State Institute for the History of the Arts, in Petrograd, then Leningrad. Both institutes created subcommittees on translation, which hosted lectures as well as other scholarly activities, such as the creation of a Translation Studies bibliography. Key figures in the promotion of perevodovedenie at this time are also discussed. The article challenges the dominant narrative of the field, as consolidated in the many English-language handbooks and encyclopedias, that situates the emergence of Translation Studies in the post-World War II West and that construes writings from before the war as non-scholarly.V prispevku so predstavljene štiri značilnosti, ki opredeljujejo raziskovalno področje kot akademsko stroko; te štiri značilnosti so nato aplicirane na zgodnje sovjetske poskuse vzpostavljanja vede o prevajanju, imenovanime perevodovedenie. Prispevek se osredotoča na akademsko dejavnost dveh sovjetskih kulturnih inštitucij v obdobju od 1920 do 1929, to sta Državna akademija za umetniške znanosti v Moskvi in Državni inštitut za umetnostno zgodovino v Sankt Peterburgu, ki se je takrat imenoval Leningrad. Na obeh inštitucijah sta bila ustanovljena podkomiteja za prevajanje, v okviru katerih so bila organizirana predavanja in druge akademske dejavnosti, kot npr. priprava bibliografije s področja prevodoslovja. Predstavljene so tudi ključne osebnosti pri promociji perevodovedenia v omenjenem obdobju. V prispevku je postavljena pod vprašaj prevladujoča narativa v prevodoslovju, ki se utrjuje v številnih priročnikih in enciklopedijah v angleškem jeziku in ki umešča nastanek prevodoslovja v zahodni svet po drugi svetovni vojni ter vsako pisanje o tej tematiki pred tem obdobjem predstavlja kot neakademsko.

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Baer, B. J. (2024). Birth of a discipline? STRIDON: Journal of Studies in Translation and Interpreting, 4(2), 5–28. https://doi.org/10.4312/stridon.4.2.5-28

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