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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29499| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Crossing the borders of social class : social mobility as translational experience |
| Authors: | Wright, Chantal |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808 10.21256/zhaw-29499 |
| Published in: | The Translator |
| Volume(Issue): | 29 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Page(s): | 480 |
| Pages to: | 493 |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2023 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1355-6509 1757-0409 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Social mobility; Untranslatability; Back translation; Social class; Working-class; Walter Benjamin |
| Subject (DDC): | 305: Groups (age, origine, gender, income) |
| Abstract: | This article suggests that we might conceive of the experience of upward social mobility as a form of translational experience and view the socially mobile individual as both translatum and translator. Acknowledging that the experience of social mobility varies enormously in its specificity, the article’s temporal focus is on upward social mobility in Britain since the expansion of higher education in the early 1990s. It draws on the author’s own experience of social mobility and on the memoirs Hungry by Grace Dent (2021), Respectable by Lynsey Hanley (2017), and People Like Us (2020) by Hashi Mohamed, and relates the socially mobile self to the phenomenon of textual translation. It also theorises the ‘return’ – post-translation communication with the ‘source culture’ or social class of origin – and the process of back-and-forth translation in which socially mobile individuals are constantly engaged. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29499 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Wright, C. (2023). Crossing the borders of social class : social mobility as translational experience. The Translator, 29(4), 480–493. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808
Wright, C. (2023) ‘Crossing the borders of social class : social mobility as translational experience’, The Translator, 29(4), pp. 480–493. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808.
C. Wright, “Crossing the borders of social class : social mobility as translational experience,” The Translator, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 480–493, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808.
WRIGHT, Chantal, 2023. Crossing the borders of social class : social mobility as translational experience. The Translator. Dezember 2023. Bd. 29, Nr. 4, S. 480–493. DOI 10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808
Wright, Chantal. 2023. “Crossing the Borders of Social Class : Social Mobility as Translational Experience.” The Translator 29 (4): 480–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808.
Wright, Chantal. “Crossing the Borders of Social Class : Social Mobility as Translational Experience.” The Translator, vol. 29, no. 4, Dec. 2023, pp. 480–93, https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2023.2275808.
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