Supralingualism and the Translatability Industry

Autor/in	Gramling, David
Titel	Supralingualism and the Translatability Industry
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 41 (2020) 1, S.129-147 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amz023
Schlagwörter	Global Approach; Multilingualism; Translation; Computational Linguistics; Second Languages; Political Influences; Ideology; History; Industry; Culture; Role; National Security; Language Usage + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Globales Denken; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Second language; Zweitsprache; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Ideologie; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Industrie; Kultur; Rollen; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Sprachgebrauch
Abstract	This article argues that a new form of globalizing multilingualism, which I call 'supralingualism', has been afoot since 1990, when the rise of algorithmic translation and cross-linguistic information retrieval (CLIR) practices set in in earnest in the supply-side logistics industries. A political landscape characterized by international consensus and compliance in the 1990s (as opposed to tariff wars and logistical nationalism) further buttressed this new ideology, leading to a newly multilingual centripetality in the global management of meaning. Based on historical examples and evidence from computational engineering, this article tracks the extraordinary growth of this sector and its implications for other arenas of language practice, implications that include: monolingualization, securitization, dehistoricization, lexicaliztation, and the reduction of 'culture' to its most overt linguistic forms. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01