Poetry Translating as Expert Action Processes, priorities and networks

 Poetry Translating as Expert Action

Interest

Networks

Imagined

Communities

(Sub-)

Fields

Translating

Agents

Text

Transmitters

Tr a n s l at o r

COGNITION

EMOTION

Target

Poem(s)

Source

Poem(s)

Text Complex

(Poly)

Systems

A C T I O N

R E L A T I O N

C O M M UNI C A T I O N

Figure 53. Poetry translating action: A revised model

The six studies confirm that the various elements of the model are often intercon-

nected. The textual (translated poetry), for instance, defines but is also brought

into being by the personal and interpersonal action of translators and other team

players. The translator’s textual action and interpersonal relations cannot be imag-

ined without cognition and emotion – both of which are often intertwined, as

Chapter 4’s Derek attested. Different orders of network interpenetrate each other

and the translator as subject: the poetry translator’s action, for instance, is condi-

tioned by norms negotiated and communicated along second-order networks,