Author(s)

Ling He ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Humanities and Education, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong, 528225, China

Corresponding Author

Ling He

ABSTRACT

Translation is a social production process. This paper takes Can Xue's award-winning works The Last Lover as a case to investigate the translator's roles in the translation production. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen is the English-language translator of this novel. She acts as an important actor and plays effective parts in the translation production. Specifically, based on the Actor-network Theory in sociology, Annelise's roles are analyzed in the translation^ANT of the translation project initiation, in the translation^ANT of the translation process, and in the translation^ANT of the publication and dissemination. With the efforts of all the involved translation actors including the translator, the production of English-translated The Last Lover was successful.

KEYWORDS

The Actor-network Theory; translationANT; translation production; The Last Lover; translator's role

CITE THIS PAPER

Ling He, A Sociological Analysis of Translator's Roles in the Production of English-translated the Last Lover. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 7-11. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070202.

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