VOLUME 21, ISSUE 5

TRANSLATING TRUMP/TRADUIRE TRUMP

Editors: Roger Célestin and Eliane DalMolin
Guest Co-Editor: Anne-Marie Picard

December 2017

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

  • INTERVIEW

Anne-Marie Picard

Le mot juste : Interview with Howard Jacobson

 

  • ESSAY/ARTICLES

Camille Bloomfield and Lily Robert-Foley

Tweetranslating Trump: Outranspo’s “bad translations” of Trump’s tweets

 

Peter Constantine

On the Perils of Translating Men in Power

 

Olivier Mannoni

La force de l’incohérence

 

Damion Searls

Translating the Event Horizon

 

Carles Torner      

Un-translating Trump

 

Chikako Tsuruta

Trust in Trump in Translation

 

Bérangère Viennot

De la difficulté de traduire Donald Trump

 

Allison Coffelt

Slippery Kitsch and the Aesthetics of Power

 

Michel de Pracontal

The American Nightmare

  

Gilles Paris

In Trump’s head, and back

 

Richard Wolffe

In His Own Words: Why and How Journalists Need To Tell The Truth About Donald Trump

 

Waddick Doyle

Translating Genres: Translating Leaders: Trump and Berlusconi

 

Steven R. Ekovich

Listening to Donald Trump

 

Dexter Gabriel

Translating Trump through A Brief History of Black America

 

Jayson Harsin

Trump l’Oeil: Is Trump’s Post-Truth Communication Translatable?

 

Adriana X. Jacobs

Translating Cats and Cowards

 

Noëlle McAfee

Trump and the Paranoid-Schizoid Politics of Ideality

 

Yann Dienner

Humpty-Trumpy

 

Kirsten Lind Seal

TAKE MY PRESIDENT, PLEASE!

 

Michel Schneider

Le premier président Facebook-Twitter de l’Histoire

 

Robert Albouker

You’re Fired!

 

Ernst Bens

Epître à Biquet

 

Amelia Harvey

“I have the best words.” An Examination of Word-Choice about Donald Trump

 

 

  • QUESTIONNAIRE

-Donald Trump says he “has the best words”*: according to you, does he have a particular language and what would be the particularities of this language?

 

[* “I’m very highly educated. I know words; I have the best words…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UIE_MRAhEA

Speech at Hilton Head, South Carolina– December 2015]

Respondents:

-Esther Allen

-Marie Darrieussecq

-Philip Golub

-Edith Grossman

-Liora Halperin

-Jacques Lezra

-Michael Lynch

-Donna Masini

-Benjamin Moe

-Olivier Penot-Lacassagne

-Burton Pike

-Alyson Waters