BEYOND BORDERS: PARADOXES AND CHALLENGES
Yves Gambier
Abstract
The Translation and Interpreting Studies are nowadays facing professional, socio-professional, socio-political, technological, and pedagogical challenges. The article seeks to answer three questions based on these challenges:
- Why do we need a media history of translation?
- To what extent is the new relationship between oral and written codes disturbing Translation Studies?
- What could the possible ethical and methodological implications be?
These three issues have a common denominator: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which is blurring our traditional borders and categories