This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. Bourdieu�

Bourdieu's key concepts of habitus, field and capital have been adopted or adapted to elaborate the social and cultural nature of translation or interpreting ac

The publication deliberately concentrates on the reception and application of one concept highly influential in the sociology of translation and interpreting, n

The view of translation as a socially regulated activity has opened up a broad field of research in the last few years. This volume deals with central questions

Increasing attention has been paid to the agency of translators and interpreters, as well as to the social factors that permeate acts of translation and interpr