Metaphorical and interlingual translation in moving organizational practices across languages

Organizational scholars refer to translation as a metaphor in order to describe the transformation and movement of organizational practices across institutional contexts. However, they have paid relatively little attention to the challenges of moving organizational practices across language boundaries. In this conceptual paper, we theorize that when organizational practices move across contexts that differ not only in terms of institutions and cultures but also in terms of languages, translation becomes more than a metaphor; it turns into reverbalization of meaning in another language. We argue that the meeting of languages opens up a whole new arena for translator agency to unfold. Interlingual and metaphorical translation are two distinct but interrelated forms of translation that are mutually constitutive. We identify possible constellations between interlingual and metaphorical translation and illustrate agentic translation with published case examples. We also propose that interlingual translation is a key resource in the discursive constitution of multilingual organizations. This paper contributes to the stream of research in organization studies that has made translation a core aspect of its inquiry

Tradução e ilusão Translation and illusion

Apesar da existência de fortes correntes no campo dos estudos da tradução que enfatizam a autonomia do texto traduzido em relação ao original, os tradutores literários de hoje produzem versões bem mais fiéis ao original do que no passado. Com base nos conceitos de tradução estrangeirizante e domesticadora, de Friedrich Schleiermacher, e nos de tradução ilusionista e anti-ilusionista, propostos por Ji&#345;í Levý, apresenta-se uma explicação possível para esse descompasso entre teoria e prática.<br>Despite the existence of powerful currents in the field of translation studies that emphasize the autonomy of the translated text vis-à-vis the original, today's literary translators produce versions that are far more faithful to the original than in the past. Availing ourselves of Friedrich Schleiermacher's concepts of foreignization and domesticization in translation, and of Ji&#345;í Levý's notions of illusionist and anti-illusionist translation, a possible explanation emerges for this mismatch between theory and practice