Category: Publications

Multilingualism and Politics: Revisiting Multilingual Citizenship Editors: Strani, Katerina (Ed.) This edited book makes a significant contribution to the relatively under-explored field of multilingualism and politics, approaching the topic from two key perspectives: multilingualism in politics, and the politics of multilingualism. Through the lens of case studies from around the world, the authors in this volume combine theoretical and empirical insights […]

Machine translation literacy instruction for international business students and business English instructors Lynne Bowker Abstract As the number of non-Anglophone students studying business through the medium of English continues to increase, there is a growing interest in the potential of machine translation for helping these students with English-language writing. Language instructors recognize the futility of trying to ban the use […]

Interpreting in Legal and Healthcare Settings: Perspectives on research and training Editors Eva N.S. Ng | The University of Hong Kong Ineke H.M. Crezee | Auckland University of Technology   The importance of quality interpreting in legal and healthcare settings can never be stressed enough, when any mistake – no matter how small – can compromise the delivery of justice or put someone’s health […]

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism By Rebecca Ruth Gould, Kayvan Tahmasebian Book Description The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism provides an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts. As the first extended collection to offer perspectives on translation and activism from a global perspective, this handbook includes […]

The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender By Luise von Flotow, Hala Kamal The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of feminism and gender awareness in translation and translation studies today. Bringing together work from more than 20 different countries – from Russia to Chile, Yemen, Turkey, China, India, Egypt and the Maghreb as well […]

Topics and Concepts in Literary Translation By Roberto A. Valdeón This book explores literary translation in a variety of contexts. The chapters showcase the research into literary translation in North America, Europe, and Asia. Written by a group of experienced researchers and young academics, the contributors study a variety of languages (including English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Dutch, German, […]

Translation as Actor-Networking: Actors, Agencies, and Networks in the Making of Arthur Waley’s English Translation of the Chinese ‘Journey to the West’ By Wenyan Luo This book employs actor-network theory (ANT) to explore the making of the English translation of a work of Chinese canonical fiction, Journey to the West, demonstrating how ANT, as applied to Translation Studies, can contribute […]

    Issue 34 (July 2020): Table of Contents EDITORIAL     PDF[EN] P 1   INTERVIEW     Lindsay Bywood interviews Carol Robertson on her experience of the early days of subtitling at the BBC [HTML] [PDF]   PP 2-8   ARTICLES   SPOTLIGHT ON RESEARCH METHODS Chuan Yu Insider, outsider or multiplex persona? Confessions of a digital ethnographer’s journey in Translation Studies [abstract] [about […]

New Voices in Translation Studies 22 (2020) Special Issue: Rethinking (Self-)Translation in (Trans)national Contexts   Edited by: Ruth Abou Rached, Edmund Chapman, David Charlston, Kelly Pasmatzi, M. Zain Sulaiman, Marija Todorova With Special Issue Guest Editors: Magdalena Kampert, Elena Anna Spagnuolo, Huimin Zhong Abstracts Editors: Ruth Abou Rached and Kelly Pasmatzi TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction New Voices Editorial Team and […]

Ocean’s Eleven Scene 12: the sample as methodological cogitation – rationale and data Marie-Noëlle Guillot Published online: 05 May 2020 This Special Issue on Audiovisual Translation and Interdisciplinarity has two interrelated goals: to promote methodological sensitivity and robustness in audiovisual translation research; and to give audiovisual translation research greater scope to capitalise on interdisciplinary input. It is based on a simple […]