Author: kyunghye.kim

di Patrick Leech In the eighteenth century, Britain and France experienced a veritable explosion of radical ideas and texts. The production of these ideas and texts took place in increasingly cosmopolitan frameworks, both European and later Atlantic, and translation played a paramount role in their exchange and dissemination. This volume argues that a cosmopolitan approach was a central concern of […]

Mona Baker, Dirk Delabastita, Moira Inghilleri, Sue-Ann Harding &Loredana Polezzi This conversation, which took place in the summer of 2020, traces 25 years of publishing The Translator, from its inception and early days, to its establishment as a leading international publication in the field of Translation Studies, to the move from St Jerome to Routledge in 2014. We invited three scholars who […]

Ester Torres-Simón ,Hanna Pięta,Rita Bueno Maia &Catarina Xavier ABSTRACT In order to translate and be translated, low-diffusion languages often use strategies that differ from those used by widely spoken languages and therefore create particular challenges for translators. One such strategy is indirect translation (including also relay interpreting). Since there are conflicting opinions about this practice within the translation community, it […]

By Audrey Heijns Book Description Against the historical background of Chinese translation in the West and the emergence of several prominent European translators of China, this book examines the role of a translator in terms of cross-cultural communication, the image of the foreign culture in the minds of the target audience, and the influence of their translations on the target […]

Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Translation Spaces Vol. 9:2 (2020), pp. 314–341, https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.19012.jim For over two decades, Translation Studies (TS) scholars have argued that the discipline is going through a ‘technological turn’. This paper critically questions whether TS has already completed this “paradigmatic” or “disciplinary turn,” “a clearly visible and striking” change of direction that can “perhaps […]

Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations Jan 7, 2021 By: Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Volume 5, Cycle 4 https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0175 The history of Iranian modernism is inseparable from the history of literary translation. In most accounts of Iranian literary history, the translation of European literary works played a formative role in the redefinition of poetic discourse […]

Edited By Esperança Bielsa, Dionysios Kapsaskis Book Description This is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive coverage of the main approaches that theorize translation and globalization, offering a wide-ranging selection of chapters dealing with substantive areas of research. The handbook investigates the many ways in which translation both enables globalization and is inevitably transformed by it. Taking a genuinely interdisciplinary approach, […]