TRANSLATION, MULTILINGUALISM AND CULTURAL MEDIATION IN URBAN SOCIETIES

Abstract

In this paper we will study the translation practice focusing our attentionon the troublesome renegotiation of plurality / diversity in nowadaysmulticultural urban societies, resulting from recent migrations andpopulation flows. Urban societies are clearly a space for multilingualism,various translational practices and cultural mediation (including culturalhybridism and “transculturation”).

From the reflection on these situations, increasingly frequent inmulticultural societies, we will deal with the new conditions of socialencounters and the new literary production, which might lead to rethinkingthe notion of translation itself.