Translating Values

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Piotr Blumczynski, John Gillespie

   Pages 1-9

3. Who Wants Walls? An Ethnolinguistics of Insides and Outsides

   • James W. Underhill

   Pages 11-36

4. Emotional Valuation: Values and Emotions in Translation

   • Elżbieta Tabakowska

   Pages 37-56

5. Alternative Evaluative Concepts to the Trinity of Bible Translation

   • James A. Maxey

   Pages 57-80

6. Submission and Its Conflicting Value Systems: A Case Study

   • David B. Bell

   Pages 81-99

7. Re-examining Islamic Evaluative Concepts in English Translations of the Quran: Friendship, Justice and Retaliation

   • Aladdin Al-Tarawneh

   Pages 101-122

8. English Evaluative Concepts in a Contemporary Devotional Christian Text. A Comparative Study of Dzienniczek by Faustyna Kowalska and Its English Translation

   • Aleksander Gomola

   Pages 123-144

9. Clarity, Soberness, Chastity: Politics of Simplicity in Nineteenth-Century Translation

   • Michèle Milan

   Pages 145-167

10. Letters to Italy: Translation and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

    • Anne O’Connor

    Pages 169-189

11. Improving the Public: Translating Protestant Values through Nineteenth-Century Bilingual Print Journalism in South Asia

    • Hephzibah Israel

    Pages 191-211

12. Translating Protestant Christianity into China—Questions of Indigenization and Sinification in a Globalised World

    • Gerda Wielander

    Pages 213-235

13. Translating the Past: The Moral Universe of Calderón’s Painter of Dishonour

    • David Johnston

    Pages 237-259

14. Beckett as Translator of Beckett: The Transmission of (Anti-?) Religious Concepts

    • John Gillespie

    Pages 261-277

15. Vulnerable Values: The Polish Dom (‘House, Home’) in English Translation

    • Adam Głaz

    Pages 279-302

16. Smart Dreamers: Translation and the Culture of Speculative Fiction

    • Paulina Drewniak

    Pages 303-325

17. Translation as an Evaluative Concept

    • Piotr Blumczynski

    Pages 327-349

18. Back Matter

    Pages 351-363

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This collection explores the central importance of values and evaluative concepts in cross-cultural translational encounters. Written by a group of international scholars from a diverse range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the chapters in this book consider what it means to translate cultures by examining core values and their relationship to key evaluative concepts (such as authenticity, clarity, home, honour, or justice) and how they influence the complex multidimensional process of translation. This book will be of interest to academics studying cross-cultural and inter-linguistic interactions, to translators and interpreters, students of translation and of modern languages, and all those dealing with multilingual and multicultural settings.

• evaluative concepts
• translating cultures
• religion
• values
• ethical translation
• axiology
• anthropology
• concept
• cultural anthropology
• culture
• literature
• social anthropology
• social science
• translation
• translation studies

“Showing a predominantly theoretical and philosophical orientation, Translating Values gives food for thought about abstract notions such as culture as an identity shaper, or the burning issue of our stance towards alterity. … Translating Values might find its place on the reading lists of cultural and translation studies scholars.” (Andrea Stojilkov, Target, Vol. 29 (2), 2017) 

“This is an important book that tackles the vast, complex issue of how value systems that inevitably are culture-bound can be translated. If shared values are meaningful for particular communities, can they ever be adequately translated? This wide-ranging collection of essays tackles a range of difficult issues that are fundamental to understanding our multi-faceted global world.” (Susan Bassnett, Professor, University of Warwick, UK)

“If culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language (R. Williams), translation and value are the other two. This collection of contributions by some big names in Translation and Culture Studies from various countries deals with values in journalism, Bible translation, literature, ethnolinguistics and other fields both in the past and today – a “must read” for everyone interested in culture, values, and translation!” (Christiane Nord, Professor, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein)

• School of Modern Languages, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

  Piotr Blumczynski

• School of Modern Languages, University of Ulster, Coleraine, United Kingdom

  John Gillespie

Piotr Blumczynski is Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting at Queen’s University Belfast. His research and teaching focus on translation theory and practice, translation of sacred texts, ethics, ethnolinguistics and cognitive semantics. He has published two monographs: Doctrine in Translation (2006) and Ubiquitous Translation (2016). He is Associate Editor of the journal Translation Studies.


John Gillespie is Professor of French Language and Literature (Emeritus), a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute and a former Head of Languages and Literature at Ulster University. Apart from translation studies, his research interests include Gide, Sartre (he is co-editor of Sartre Studies International), Camus, existentialism, the interactions between literature, philosophy, theology and belief in twentieth-century literature and culture, and applied linguistics.

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