Situational analysis as a theory-methods package for the sociology of translation: the production system of literary translation

Abstract The study introduces the sociology of translation as a research area and explores the potential and limits of using situational analysis (SA) as a theory-methods package for examining the production, distribution, and consumption of book translations of literary texts as a specific type of cultural production. Drawing on constructivist assumptions, SA emphasises the constructing of the research situation; this informs the concept of the production system of literary translation (from En