Category: Publications

When News Travels East: Translation Practices by Japanese Newspapers Kayo Matsushita Journalism and unique translation practices by Japanese media today International news stories provided to the public basically rely on translation. Most of this translation is done not by translators, but by journalists with practically no training in translation. What happens when the norms of journalism and those of translation clash? […]

The Bloomsbury Companion to Language Industry Studies Editor(s): Erik Angelone, Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Gary Massey About The Bloomsbury Companion to Language Industry Studies This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues shaping the language industry, including translation, interpreting, machine translation, editing, terminology management, technology and accessibility. By exploring current and future research topics and methods, the Companion addresses language industry stakeholders, researchers, […]

Translation in Cascading Crises 1st Edition, Edited by Federico M. Federici, Sharon O’Brien Routledge Description This volume addresses the imperative need for recognizing, exploring, and developing the role of multilingual communication in crisis settings. It is recognized that ‘communication is aid’ and that access to communication is an undeniable human right in crises. Even where effective and accurate information is available […]

International network in crisis translation – Recommendations on policies Federici, Federico M., O’Brien, Sharon , Cadwell, Patrick, Marlowe, Jay, Gerber, Brian and Davis, Olga (2019) International network in crisis translation – Recommendations on policies. Policy Report. Dublin City University.   Full text available as: PDF – Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader 192kB Abstract The H2020-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 734211) INTERACT project presents recommendations to local, national […]

Cover note to article on Translators Without Borders, by Attila Piróth and Mona Baker The Ethics of Volunteerism Attila Piróth and Mona Baker October 2019 Click here to download the full article Some background to our decision to publish this article independently is in order. First, neither of us is under pressure to publish at all. Attila is a professional […]

Translation and prefiguration: consolidating a conceptual encounter Jan Buts Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1682626 ABSTRACT The concept of prefiguration, generally referring to the creation of an alternative society within the here and now, has proven highly productive in coming to terms with contemporary social movements, as the term ‘prefigurative’ is used to group a number of political phenomena that share at least the […]

Shifting characterizations of the ‘Common People’ in modern English retranslations of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War: a corpus-based analysis Henry Jones Palgrave Communications volume 5, Article number: 135 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0348-0 Abstract Little research has yet explored the impact of (re)translation on narrative characterization, that is, on the process through which the various actors depicted in a narrative are attributed […]

A member of Jiao Tong Baker Centre, Yu Jing (co-author)’s article entitled ‘Sociological formation and reception of translation: The case of Kinkley’s translation of Biancheng’ is now published online in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Sociological formation and reception of translation: The case of Kinkley’s translation of Biancheng Published in Translation and Interpreting Studies Author(s): Minhui Xu (first author)  and Jing Yu (co-author) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.19039.xu […]

Special Issue: New Insights into Translator Training Edited by: Paulina Pietrzak Introduction The potential of reflective translator training Paulina Pietrzak (University of Łódź, Poland) PART I: Methodological approaches to translator training Fostering Translator Competence: The Importance of Effective Feedback and Motivation for Translator Trainees Catherine Way (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Learning to Learn, Teach and Develop Co-emergent Perspectives on Translator […]

The article entitled ‘How does China appraise self and others? A corpus-based analysis of Chinese political discourse’ by Yifan Zhu, the associate director of Jiao Tong Baker Centre, and Tao Li, an affiliate of Jiao Tong Baker Centre, is now published online in Discourse and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926519880036 How does China appraise self and others? A corpus-based analysis of Chinese political discourse […]