Introduction: Gender, language and translation at the crossroads of disciplines

Authors

  • Olga Castro Aston University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v7i1.5

Keywords:

gender, feministic linguistics, language, translation

Abstract

Introduction.

The fact that ‘gender is an omni-relevant category in most social practices’ (Lazar 2005:3) lies at the very core of both feminist linguistics and feminist translation studies. Admittedly, most of the scholarly works produced within these two dynamic fields in the last three decades emphasize the role that language and translation play in the construction of the social world. In particular, much attention has been paid to investigating how gender roles are discursively constructed through language and translation – both understood as social practices per se – and how gender definitions are constantly interacting with other similarly constructed parameters such as race, geography, class or sexuality, therefore having consequences at the level of material practice.

Author Biography

  • Olga Castro, Aston University

    Olga Castro is Lecturer in Translation Studies and Spanish at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. She joined Aston after a year working as Teaching Fellow in Translation at the University of Exeter. She gained her Ph.D. in Translation (with the European Doctorate Mention) at the University of Vigo, Spain, for which she has been also awarded the PhD Extraordinary Prize. Her main areas of research are feminist translation studies, translation and minority, gender and media, feminist linguistics and Galician Studies. She has published a dozen of different peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited books and journals, and has co-authored with María Reimóndez the monograph Feminismos (Xerais 2012). She has also co-authored the Manual de linguaxe inclusiva para o ámbito universitario (Universidade de Vigo 2012). She is Vice-president of the International Association for Galician Studies.

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Published

2013-02-15

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2013): Special Issue: Gender, language and translation at the crossroads of disciplines

Section

Editorial

How to Cite

Castro, O. (2013). Introduction: Gender, language and translation at the crossroads of disciplines. Gender and Language, 7(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v7i1.5