The Baker`s Narrative Account: A Pathway to Study Translational Construction of Social Identity

Narrative theory has brought new changes in viewing the formation and representation of foreign reality in translation. The current paper describes this importance, while explaining Mona Baker`s narrative account (2006), and comparing the narrative approach with other well-known approaches in Translation studies. The main purpose of this study is to introduce narrative theory as a basis for the model analyzing the representation of social identity in translation.