Open AccessA Review of Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic
Author(s) -
Haihong Yin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
english language and literature studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-4776
pISSN - 1925-4768
DOI - 10.5539/ells.v11n4p61
Subject(s) - instrumentalism , enlightenment , philosophy , subtitle , epistemology , value (mathematics) , translation (biology) , loyalty , sociology , linguistics , computer science , theology , biochemistry , chemistry , machine learning , messenger rna , gene
Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic is the latest monograph of Venuti. It firstly examines the “untranslatability” and "loyalty" widely existing in translation theories, translation proverbs, and subtitle translation. Then the work criticizes the instrumentalism behind them, and proposes to think translation in a hermeneutic way. This review mainly introduces the general idea of each part, the structure and methodology of this book, and gives a brief comment on its value, shortcomings, enlightenment as well.