Chantal Gagnon
Chantal Gagnon is full professor at Université de Montreal at the Department of Linguistics and Translation. Her research deals with power struggles in translation, for e.g. in Canadian political speeches and in the financial press.
Address: Université de Montréal
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
3150, rue Jean-Brillant
9e étage, bureau C-9006
Montréal (QC) H3T 1N8
Address: Université de Montréal
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
3150, rue Jean-Brillant
9e étage, bureau C-9006
Montréal (QC) H3T 1N8
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The discipline of translation studies has made its mark by conceptualising translation as a form of cross-cultural communication that transcends asymmetrical relations of power, foregrounding issues such as (colonial) domination, (cultural) hegemony, and ideology. To date, however, there has been no compelling evidence of the linguistic implications of transnational political communication, and little research has been done to help us to understand how political discourse at the international level presupposes translation. Featuring a wealth of examples from political text and talk, each article here links contextual features to the linguistic choices of political actors. By moving beyond national and cultural boundaries, these analyses help the reader to get to grips with the discursive implications of power politics, and to open up a new debate for a novel area of studies that might be termed cross-cultural political discourse analysis.