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International Journal of Language Translation and Intercultural Communication: Volume 8, 2019 Link: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/latic/issue/view/1252/showToc Guest Editor’s Foreword, by Verónica Arnáiz-Uzquiza and Christos Stavrou Audiovisual Translation appeared as a term in the academia in the 1980s and according to Gambier (1996) ‘AVT has benefited from the rapid development of research interest and of institutional commitment, even though the field remains essentially European. […]

Parallèles: 31 (1) Link: https://www.paralleles.unige.ch/files/6615/5541/5748/Paralleles_31-1_2019.pdf Abstracts in English: Petit traité de titrologie traductologique, by Muguraş Constantinescu This article provides a brief overview of Lance Hewson’s writings in translation studies. It first examines the art of titling, as demonstrated by this atypical translation scholar, whose titles are at once surprising, playful, intertextual and engaging. It then explores the issues in translation […]

Special Issue: The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia – Part I: Visions and Networks Edited by Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini Link: https://brill.com/abstract/journals/jwl/4/1/jwl.4.issue-1.xml?fbclid=IwAR22TEAL-hN-hMRZz4_Kq3K3AyxLOJcsoYJ5rFs2p2OTTdEVym4Wz0xSpJk In this special issue: Introduction, by Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini That location matters for critics, readers but also texts, as Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s quote suggests, is a deceptively simple point. To […]

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology Edited by Minako O’Hagan Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Translation-and-Technology/OHagan/p/book/9781138232846?fbclid=IwAR39HhOxu-Mc5pJGXCRc3cEko9c2GOz_tkNfKst76yT_HOxa7dCKs0hmsGY   About this book: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the dynamically evolving relationship between translation and technology. Divided into five parts, with an editor’s introduction, this volume presents the perspectives of users of translation technologies, and of researchers […]

Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies New resources and applications Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto Link: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.90?fbclid=IwAR29mmc1fYrsXXkF3b7AwbP8DT-B7F-Fnkm9OJEFKCLF7DRe_FPSqESKZqY About this book: This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora – with some particular references to comparable corpora as well– […]

Przekładaniec: Special issue on (Post)colonial Translation Link: http://www.ejournals.eu/Przekladaniec/English-issues/Special-Issue-(Post)colonial-Translation/?fbclid=IwAR27L1H9YMxM9PkT4G566GMVd9qcXfYvTScVSZTX0obXYD-naRGVX_8ZYho Cultural Difference in Translation: Translationality of Postcolonial Literature, by Dorota Kołodziejczyk Abstract: The article investigates the work of cultural difference in language in the context of translation, specifically as an effect of translation processes within postcolonial literature, and its role in reinforcing postcolonial literature as the world literature in English. Delineating the […]