没有翻译, 今日的全球化便无从谈起；同时, 今日的全球化社会正改变着翻译生态，使其在形式、手段、技巧，乃至政治格局等方面发生重大变化。例如，翻译愈来愈受全球、国家、地方经济的制约；原作/者、译者、出版者、读者/消费者之间的关系，大不同于以往；现代通讯技术的发展，使翻译的联系、传输、互动、传播、消费以及影响方式，出现了新的面貌；弱势语言以及它们所代表的文化正遭到排挤，被进一步边缘化；在南北有（经济、社会发展水平等）别、东西有（文化传统等）异的后现代、后/新殖民的历史和现实条件下，翻译的政治具有新的内涵，形成了新的态势。这一切，使得翻译研究范式已经并且正在发生重大的转型。
本研究中心致力于研究翻译与不断变迁的人类社会之间的关系，从而推进译学的进步和发展，自2008年成立至今，得到了威尼斯·(wnsr)888-官方网站不遗余力的支持。2014年，本研究中心成为受西南财经大学“中央高校基本科研业务费”资助的重点研究基地。
主任: 郭洋生
电子邮箱：yguo@swufe.edu.cn
Centre/Key Research Base for the Study of Translation and Society
Without translation, there could be no talk of ‘globalization’ in the world today. Furthermore, the ongoing processes of globalized society are changing the ecosystem of translation, causing dramatic changes in the form, means, methods, techniques, and even politics of translation. For instance, translation is becoming increasingly conditioned by local, national, and global economies; the relationships among the original author/writer, translator, publisher, and reader/consumer are vastly different from the past; modern developments in communications technology have resulted in translation having newer forms of contact, ex-/inter-change, communication, transmission, and consumption; those internationally vulnerable or disfranchised languages, along with the cultures they represent, are being further edged out and marginalized; within the historical and realistic context of post-modernity and post/neo-coloniality, where differences exist between the North and the South (in terms of economic and social development) and between the East and the West (with regard to cultural traditions, etc.), the politics of translation is being played out in new ways with new political dimensions and dynamics emerging. All these factors have contributed to major paradigmatic shifts now being seen in translation studies.
The Centre takes it as its mandate and mission to advance translation studies by examining the relationship between translation and the ever-changing society. Since its establishment in 2008, the Centre has received unfailing support from the Faculty of International Studies, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. In 2014, the Centre became a Key Research Base sponsored by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
For more information, please contact Guo Yangsheng, Director of the Centre/Key Research Base.
Director: GUO Yangsheng
Email: yguo@swufe.edu.cn
