书评--Training for the New Millennium

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1、152TheReviewsSectionTrainingfortheNewMillennium:PedagogiesforTranslationandInterpret-ing.MarthaTennent(ed.).Amsterdam&Philadelphia:JohnBenjamins,2005.274pp.ISBn90-272-1666-5(Eur.)/1-58811-609-3(US).€105/$126.hisbookoriginatedataforumontranslationpedagogyattheUni-versityofVic’sSchoolofTrans

2、lationandInterpretinginMay1999.TIntheintroduction,MarthaTennentfirstexplainsthefundamentalideaoftheForumandthenfocuseson‘irreconcilable’methodologicaldivi-sionswithinTranslationStudies(TS)asadiscipline.hercommentsreflecttheburningideologicalandmethodologicaldiscrepancieswithinTSandtheever-

3、presentdichotomybetweenitslinguisticandliteraryprofiles.SheemphasizestheseminalcharacteroftheVicForumas‘settingtheprecedent’(Tennent2005:xx),whichopenedvariousdiscussionsandgaverisethe‘sharedground’debateinTarget.Thetwelveessayscontainedinthecollec-tionarenotactuallyconferencepapers,butare

4、textspreparedinresponsetothetopicsoftheForum.Boththelanguageandthegeographyofthepublication(thecontribu-tors’researchandteachingbackgroundsofuniversitiesinDublin,helsinki,London,Lyon,Magdeburg,Milan,newYork,Stockholm,andVic)seemtoreflectthedominantEurocentricbiasinTSandtranslation/interpre

5、tingteaching,withevidentunder-representationofschoolsoftranslationandinterpretinginothergeographicalareas;thisappearstoreinforcetheunder-lyingpresumptionthatpedagogiesfortranslationandinterpretingchieflyrefertodominantpedagogiesmainlyofWesternandnorthernEuropeorEnglish-speakingUnitedStates

6、.Anemergingquestionappearsastowhetherweshouldbetalkingabout‘geographiesoftheoreticalthought’(cf.Croninonp.254).Thisvolumedoesnotaddressthisissuedirectly,althoughinsomearticlesthereisamoreglobaltreatmentofthematerial(e.g.Helgeniska’stableoftheregionaldistributionofinterpretingschoolsworldwi

7、deasoftheyear2000).ThevolumeopenswithabriefforewordbyEugenenidainwhichhecommendsthecollectionandselectsafewimportantarticlesforshortper-sonalcomments.ThemainbodyofthebookisdividedintothreethematicsectionsfollowedbyanEpilogueconstitutedbyasinglechapterauthoredb