Dear all, we are looking for Translation Studies scholars willing to undertake volunteer English-into-Traditional Chinese translations for translating the abstracts of its 6thinternational conference (Hong Kong, July 2018) in an innovative online environment. To facilitate the coordination and the translation of hundreds of abstracts, IATIS has launched a partnership with TraduXio (a web-based platform of collaborative and multilingual translation). If […]
» Read moreNew Series, Volume 1, Number 1 (June 2017) Preface 1 Lawrence Wang-chi Wong and James St. André Introduction 3 Bernhard Fuehrer Joining the Spiritual World of Confucianism: The Jesuit Translation of the Zhongyong 7 Thierry Meynard Hellenic Shadows on the China Coast: Greek Terms for “Foreigner” and “Religion” […]
» Read moreTRANSLATION AND DISRUPTION: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES Saturday 4 November 2017 Since Clayton Christensen’s seminal book Innovator’s Dilemma showed how a small-scale but innovative digital technology can overthrow large established businesses overnight, the idea of digital disruption has been causing both excitement and concern in businesses worldwide, from financial and legal services to entertainment distribution and the taxi industry. The world of translation is not immune to such upheavals […]
» Read moreJoSTrans will publish a special issue on ‘Post-Editing in Practice: Process, Product and Networks’ Editors: Lucas Nunes Vieira, Elisa Alonso and Lindsay Bywood. Post-Editing_in_Practice_Jostrans31
» Read moreUntranslatability Goes Global Edited by Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan © 2018 – Routledge 146 pages Description This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. The chapters depart from the pragmatics of translation practice and move on to consider the role of the translator’s voice […]
» Read moreTranslating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages Edited by Kathryn Batchelor, Sue-Ann Harding © 2017 – Routledge 258 pages Description This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon’s texts, investigating how, when, where and why these—especially his seminal Les Damnés de la Terre (1961) —were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the author’s works in both postcolonial studies […]
» Read moreNon-Professional Subtitling Editor(s):David Orrego-Carmona, Yvonne Lee Subject: Cultural Studies Book Description From fansubbing, fan-generated translation, to user-generated translation, from amateur translation to social translation, non-professional subtitling has come a long way since its humble beginning in the 1980s. The prevailing technological affordance enables and mobilises the digital generation to turn subtitling into a method of self-expression and mediation, and […]
» Read moreCall for papers for a monograph on medical translation: UNDERSTANDING MEDICAL TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING cfp-ebook-understanding_med_trans https://en.fil.ug.edu.pl/sites/default/files/_nodes/news/69982/files/cfp-ebook-understanding_med_trans.pdf
» Read moreQueering Translation, Translating the Queer Theory, Practice, Activism Edited by Brian James Baer, Klaus Kaindl © 2018 – Routledge 234 pages | 10 Color Illus. | 7 B/W Illus. Description This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary […]
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The Interpreter as a Cultural Agent: The Cultural Role of Interpreters Over Time Izabel Emilia Telles de Vasconcelos Souza (Osaka University, Japan) Source Title: Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 18 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2832-6.ch012 Abstract The interpreters’ cultural role has evolved significantly over time. Understanding the profession’s history is necessary to understand its cultural evolution. Prior to professionalization, history portrayed interpreters […]
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