TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bachleitner, Norbert
T1  - Response by Bachleitner to "Translation and the materialities of communication"
T2  - Translation Studies
N2  - In her article, Karin Littau proposes a material or medial turn in the humanities and social sciences to end the neglect of the material basis to every act of communication, including translation. This proposal is warmly welcomed. As a comparatist who has for some time been trying to build bridges between literary studies and book history, I strongly support Littau's point of view – all the more since I am less optimistic regarding the general acceptance of such ideas in the humanities, and especially in literary and translation studies. I am not so sure that McLuhan and the other authorities for the importance of mediality and technicity whom Littau quotes (e.g. Kittler, Ong, and Gumbrecht) have really provoked a "crisis in the self-understanding of the human sciences". For brevity's sake, in my response below, I leave aside literary studies to focus on translation studies.
KW  - Littau, Karin
KW  - Übersetzung
KW  - Kommunikation
KW  - Materialität
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47249
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-472491
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SP  - 106
EP  - 109
PB  - Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
CY  - London
ER  -