Category: Publications

Translating and Interpreting in Korean Contexts: Engaging with Asian and Western Others, 1st Edition Edited by Ji-Hae Kang, Judy Wakabayashi Routledge 248 pages The focus of this volume is on how the people of the Korean Peninsula—historically an important part of the Sinocentric world in East Asia and today a vital economic and strategic site—have negotiated oral and written interactions with their Asian […]

Circulation of Academic Thought: Rethinking Translation in the Academic Field Edited By Rafael Y. Schögler Academic thought circulates on a time-space continuum: authors, ideas and methods are discovered, discussed, discarded, praised, rewritten, refracted, transformed, transposed and translated. The contributors of this anthology develop cross-disciplinary approaches to study and understand translation of academic thought. They critically engage with the relationship of translation […]

Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom: Training the Doers Editors: De Marco, Marcella, Toto, Piero (Eds.) This volume examines strategies for embedding gender awareness within translation studies and translator training programmes. Drawing on a rich collection of theoretically-informed case studies, its authors provide practical advice and examples on implementing gender-inclusive approaches and language strategies in the classroom. It focuses on topics including, how […]

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 […]

New Perspectives on Assessment in Translator Education, 1st Edition Edited by Elsa Huertas Barros, Juliet Vine Link: https://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Assessment-in-Translator-Education/Barros-Vine/p/book/9780367193614?fbclid=IwAR2odCCB8Ylqy4l0rdfppC0Ka9MmjuVcV-vb5jpbMf8B8sWhUEPOb1bJMds About this book: This book focuses on new perspectives on assessment in translator and interpreting education and suggests that assessment is not only a measure of learning (i.e. assessment ‘of’ learning) but also part of the learning process (i.e. assessment ‘for’ learning […]

Journal of Postcolonial Writing: 54 (6) – Refugee Literature Edited by Claire Gallien Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpw20/54/6 INTRODUCTION – “Refugee Literature”: What postcolonial theory has to say, by Claire Gallien [Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2018.1555206] A season of wandering. On the camps. From Austerlitz to La Chapelle, passing through Calais, by Laura Genz Abstract: After the French authorities dismantled the Parisian street camp “La […]