Category: Publications

Indirect Translation: Theoretical, Methodological and Terminological Issues, 1st Edition Edited by Alexandra Assis Rosa, Hanna Pięta, Rita Bueno Maia Link: https://www.routledge.com/Indirect-Translation-Theoretical-Methodological-and-Terminological-Issues/Rosa-Pieta-Maia/p/book/9780367199463 About this book: In an effort to counter the marginalization of indirect translation in systematic research, this book establishes innovative theoretical and methodological grounds and mitigates terminological instability in the field. In so doing, it unsettles the binary paradigms […]

Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies 3rd Edition Edited by Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha Link: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Encyclopedia-of-Translation-Studies/Baker-Saldanha/p/book/9781138933330 About this book: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies remains the most authoritative reference work for students and scholars interested in engaging with the phenomenon of translation in all its modes and in relation to a wide range of theoretical and methodological traditions. This […]

International Journal of Interpreter Education: 10 (2) Link: https://www.cit-asl.org/new/ijie/volume-10-2/ Editorial: Shared Learning Between Spoken and Signed Language Interpreters and Students George Major and Ineke Crezee, Co-Editors Auckland University of Technology Link: https://www.cit-asl.org/new/ijie-10-2-editorial-shared-learning/ In the second issue of the International Journal of Interpreter Education for 2018, we are pleased to offer a rich variety of research articles from both signed and […]

Journal of Interpretation: 27 (1) Link: https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/joi/ Is It Time to Accredit Interpreting Agencies?: Perspectives of BSL-English Interpreters, by Brett A. Best Abstract: Interpreting agencies have been identified as playing a crucial role in the professionalization process of community interpreting (Ozolins, 2007; Dong & Turner, 2016; Dong & Napier, 2016), but little research on agency influence has been undertaken. Ozolins […]

Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature Edited by Yifeng Sun and Chris Song Link: https://www.routledge.com/Translating-Chinese-Art-and-Modern-Literature/Sun-Song/p/book/9781138549210   About this book: Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature examines issues in cross-cultural dialogue in connection with translation and modern Chinese art and literature from interdisciplinary perspectives. This comprises the text-image dialogue in the context of Chinese modernity, and cross-cultural interaction between modern literature […]

Representing Translation: The Representation of Translation and Translators in Contemporary Media Dror Abend-David Link: https://bloomsbury.com/uk/representing-translation-9781501333873/?fbclid=IwAR32A22F9VCJE0Rz02shPCgC2b6lXjB3yZIIc0rK3E01vtCUqPoRFbEAhks About this book: In an increasingly global and multilingual society, translators have transitioned from unobtrusive stagehands to key intercultural mediators-a development that is reflected in contemporary media. From Coppola’s Lost in Translation to television’s House M.D., and from live performance to social media, translation is […]

Telling the Story of Translation – Writers who Translate Judith Woodsworth Link: https://bloomsbury.com/uk/telling-the-story-of-translation-9781350101036/?fbclid=IwAR2cERkcpr6M3p6dai84laJu7jLL0M6iFxSk0ygjjc5d_B_4qhuOqjA6vfs About this book: Scholars have long highlighted the links between translating and (re)writing, increasingly blurring the line between translations and so-called ‘original’ works. Less emphasis has been placed on the work of writers who translate, and the ways in which they conceptualize, or even fictionalize, the task […]

Tusaaji: A Translation Review: Volume 6, No. 6, 2018 Link to this issue: https://tusaaji.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/tusaaji?fbclid=IwAR14ZpFcRWCm6xX53DnvWcHIcKpgBFi2vIJ1Wbg70pFoJ9b-kXd0pbD37Oo Note from the Guest Editor, by Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar  Translation is the materialization of webs of relations. Viewed as an event, translation bears the traces of bodies, voices, and experiences. As artifacts, translations are themselves marks of relations because they manifest themselves through language and offer us […]

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 […]