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Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation Identity, Mobility and Language Change Edited by Karen Bennett and Rita Queiroz de Barros  Link: https://www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Englishes-and-the-Challenges-of-and-for-Translation-Identity-Mobility/Bennett-Barros/p/book/9781138307407?fbclid=IwAR2c4ET4bOxfRfmt63_Zb6fzdrT6gNvi1XkvKpkxOFvn-yTfVPeswlLNflc About this book: This volume problematizes the concept and practice of translation in an interconnected world in which English, despite its hegemonic status, can no longer be considered a coherent unified entity but rather a […]

編譯論叢 Translation and Compilation Review: 12 (1) Link to this issue: http://ctr.naer.edu.tw/?fbclid=IwAR1zmHGUbhRpJR9lZ_COtv80ib3ZS5r0faXMTpTPL7kZHVAP8LeEdsoSF5Y 臺灣日語文學翻譯發展之現況與議題——以國立臺灣文學館出版品為中心 (The Current Situation of Taiwanese-Japanese Translation: Publications for the National Museum of Taiwan Literature) 黃意雯 (Yi-wen Huang) 本文係以國立臺灣文學館出版品為中心，探討臺灣日語文學翻譯出版之現 況與所面臨之挑戰，並藉此提出未來努力的可能方向。首先，本文認為中文與 日文並列應是較為適切的排版方式，除可方便讀者與研究者外，也可擴大臺灣 文學研究的領域與視野。此外，打字稿與翻譯稿的地位應並重，且需更加著力於校注與譯注工作上，因此作業流程中，除應制訂各類基準與方針外，也應採跨臺日、跨學界的集體合作方式來完成。最後，譯作等同創作，譯作價值等同學術論文；譯者等同作家，譯者地位等同論文發表者。唯有文壇、學界對譯作和譯者的價值有重新的認識，才能提升整體之翻譯品質，並將文學翻譯提高至翻譯文學的境界。 This article looks at the current situation of, and challenges faced by, the translation and publication of literature in Japanese in colonial Taiwan, and proposes possible […]

Translation Studies: 11 (3) Link to this issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrs20/current Was Locke addressing Hobbes or Filmer? How a classical question in the history of political thought may become a tool for understanding the translation of historical texts, by Simon Labrecque and René Lemieux Abstract: This article aims to rethink the relationship between history and translation by questioning the methodological presuppositions underlying […]

Interpreting: 21 (1) Link to this issue: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/intp/2019/00000021/00000001 Negotiating interpersonal relations in Chinese-English diplomatic interpreting, by Rongbo Fu and Jing Chen Abstract: This paper investigates the negotiation of interpersonal relations by interpreters in Chinese government press conferences – a major instrument for the promotion of public diplomacy in China. Drawing on the theory of linguistic modality in systemic functional grammar (SFG) […]

Translation, Cognition & Behavior: 2 (1) Link to this issue: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/tcb/2019/00000002/00000001 ‘Monitoring’ in translation, by Moritz J. Schaeffer, Sandra L. Halverson and Silvia Hansen-Schirra Abstract: We assume that visual feedback from the written trace during translation plays an important role in monitoring the emerging translation. In this study, 44 participants translated with and without visual feedback from the target text […]

The Translator: 24 (3) Link to this issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrn20/current   The strange case of Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen: a master of English language translated from Gaelic into Spanish, by Álvaro Marín García Abstract: Brian O’Nolan wrote in English and Gaelic under different pseudonyms, Flann O’Brien for his English novels and Myles na gCopaleen for his work in Gaelic. […]

The Interpreter and Translator Trainer: 13 (9) Link to this issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ritt20/current   Sight translation in Public service interpreting: a dyadic or triadic exchange?, by Mireia Vargas-Urpi Abstract: Sight translation (ST) has always been considered one of the tasks covered in Public Service Interpreting (PSI). It has been included in handbooks, and it is also a frequent exercise in PSI […]

Target: 31 (1) Link to this issue: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/15699986/31/1 Shorter than a text, longer than a sentenceSource text length for ecologically valid translation experiments, by Arndt Heilmann, Tatiana Serbina, Daniel Couto Vale and Stella Neumann   Abstract: This paper investigates what effect the length of the source text has both on the translation process and on the translation product. In an […]

Volume 63, Number 2, August 2018 Link to this issue: https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/meta/2018-v63-n2-meta04194/ D’« Altazor » à Larva : le courant transformationniste en traduction, by Amaury de Sart Abstract: The transformationist movement in literature related to the French literary review Change (1968-1983), developed a conception of translation that mainly focused on poetical distortions, far from any consideration of fidelity to the original text. The case […]

Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Volume 27, Issue 3 Link to this issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmps20/current Into the language of museum audio descriptions: a corpus-based study, by Elisa Perego Abstract: The paper portrays a linguistic and textual analysis of a corpus of 18 museum audio descriptions (ADs) (a fairly neglected area of accessibility and audiovisual translation research) in order to […]