Textual, Moral and Psychological Voices of Translation

Abstract

<p>The concept of voice has engendered a growing amount of research in translation studies<br />in the last decades, especially regarding literary translation. Voice is typically used in studies<br />that investigate stylistic or structural characteristics of translated texts, intertextuality and<br />other forms of multivocality and ethical questions related to agency, ideology and power in<br />translation and interpreting. The first part of this article defines two essential concepts related<br />to voice in translation — voice and text — and describes the state of the art of research in this<br />field. The second part aims to deepen the discussion on voice in translation studies by introducing<br />the notion of the voice of conscience from philosophy and political science and the notion<br />of inner voices from psychology.<br /></p>