Interculturalism, multiculturalism and transculturalism in community translation and interpreting

Abstract

The «chameleonic» notions of interculturality, multiculturality and transculturality  have been widely used in the last years within Translation Studies as a description of translations and interpreting practices that were apparently aimed at resolving social and political problems seen as intrinsic to the contact between people and/or groups of «different cultures». The main purpose of this paper is to analyze both critically and rigorously the uses, traps and different perspectives that these three polysemous and controversial terms offer to the field of community translation and interpreting, where the métis identity of the migrant subject is at stake.