Rewriting Humour in Comic Books: Cultural Transfer and Translation of Aristophanic Adaptations Authors: Asimakoulas, Dimitris About this book This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals and […]
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Rewriting Humour in Comic Books Cultural Transfer and Translation of Aristophanic Adaptations Dimitris Asimakoulas Link: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030195267#aboutBook About this book: This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals […]
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Translation and Creativity (1st Edition) By Kirsten Malmkjær Link: https://www.routledge.com/Translation-and-Creativity-1st-Edition/Malmkjaer/p/book/9781138123274 About this book: Kirsten Malmkjær argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form. Examining notions of creativity and their relationship with translation and focusing on how the originality of translation is manifest in texts, the author explores a range of texts and their translations, in […]
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Translation and Interpreting Studies 14 (2) Special issue on ‘Translation and/in Periodical Publications’ Link to the special issue: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tis.14.2 An analysis of Varlık in 1933–1946, by Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar Abstract: This article discusses the relevance of periodical codes, an analytical framework that has been developing in the nascent field of periodical studies, for translation research. It explores how using […]
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Corpus-Based Research in Legal and Institutional Translation The use of corpora in legal and institutional translation studies: Directions and applications, by Fernando Prieto Ramos Abstract: Research in legal and institutional translation within the realm of Legal Translation Studies (LTS) has greatly benefited from embracing the advances of Corpus Linguistics in the past few decades. This paper provides an overview […]
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Music and Translation New Mediations in the Digital Age Lucile Desblache Link: https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781137549648#aboutBook About this book: This book explores how transformations and translations shape musical meanings, developments and the perception of music across cultures. Starting with the concept of music as multimodal text, the author understands translation as the process of transferring a text from one language – verbal […]
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Language and Literature, 28 (1) 2019 Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lal/current This Special Issue is intended to revive the words of songwriting for contemporary stylistics. This is important for two reasons. First, because song lyrics are an integral part of popular music, which itself is a domain of human experience that has enormous significance. Since its emergence through revolutionary media at the beginning […]
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A complexity perspective on amateur translation networks By Dang Li This article will be included in the upcoming special issue of Perspectives on ‘Mapping Contemporary Audiovisual Translation in East Asia’. Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1609532 Abstract: Complexity theory is the study of complex systems composed of multiple interacting agents that function as a whole. A complexity-informed theory of social self-organisation is introduced and […]
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The European Journal of Humour Research 7 (1), 2019: Special Issue on ‘Humour in Multimodal Translation’ Link: https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/issue/view/26/showToc (Open Access) Research articles in this issue: Editorial: Multilingual Humour in Translation, by Margherita Dore Abstract: This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has been developing over the last two decades by focusing in particular on new ways of communication. The […]
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Accessible Filmmaking: Integrating translation and accessibility into the filmmaking process, 1st Edition By Pablo Romero-Fresco About this book: Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film industry, where current distribution strategies and exhibition platforms severely underestimate the audience that […]
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