Pretending they speak French. The disappearance of the sociologist as translator

LORENA POBLETE

SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SUR LES SCIENCES SOCIALES

SAGE

Año: 2009 vol. 48

0539-0184

Translating interview abstracts is a conventional practice in sociological prose. According to the protocols, translated interview abstracts should be presented as quotations. This discursive strategy conceals the researcher´s intervention as a translator. Therefore, this article is aimed at discussing the significance that translating interviews acquires as an act of communication with two goals that are difficult to reconcile: the need to account for the Other´s discourse and the obligation to be accountable to the academic world. Social Sciences Information está indexada en Antropological Index On line, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), FRANCIS database, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, PAIS, Periodical Abstracts, Research Alert, Sciences Direct Navigator, Social Sciences Citation Indes, Social SciResearch, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts.