Category: Publications

Translation Strategies in Global News: What Sarkozy said in the suburbs Claire Scammell About this book: This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences. Using English-language press coverage of inflammatory comments made by Nicolas Sarkozy in his role as French interior minister in 2005 as a case study, the author illustrates […]

Research on Translator and Interpreter Training: A Collective Volume of Bibliometric Reviews and Empirical Studies on Learnersby Jackie Xiu Yan, Jun Pan, Honghua Wang This book comprehensively examines the development of translator and interpreter training using bibliometric reviews of the state of the field and empirical studies on classroom practice. It starts by introducing databases in bibliometric reviews and presents a detailed […]

A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students Paul Boucher | Université d’Angers A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same time it is a practical manual for the advanced language student or the translator with […]

A new issue of Parallèles, the translation studies journal of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Geneva, has just been posted online (www.paralleles.unige.ch). In it, you will find eight articles from the Transius International Conference on Legal and Institutional Translation held in June 2015 in Geneva as well as four book reviews. Parallèles focuses primarily on […]

Translating Boundaries by Dora Renna, Stefanie Barschdorf Translation Studies have traditionally been known to be interdisciplinary. What better term to sum this up than boundaries? A term that means different things in different fields and can be applied to a multitude of topics. Political, personal, symbolic, or professional boundaries, boundaries of the mind as found in psychology, or boundaries in the sociological […]

Link to the latest issue: https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/meta/2017-v62-n3-meta03512/

About this book: Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of translation its rightful place. Clearly, progress has been made, and the history of translation has become a viable independent research area. This […]

Call For Abstracts_Revision_Postediting_20180206   Aim of the book This edited collection will bring together new research on revision in government and corporate translation departments, translation agencies, the publishing sector and the volunteer sector, as well as on revision training. It covers revision of other people’s translations, self-revision, and post-editing of machine outputs, as both industry practices and cognitive processes. The collection will not […]

Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation Edited by Irene Ranzato, Serenella Zanotti 2018 – Routledge Description This collection of essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of audiovisual translation, both as a means of intercultural exchange and as a lens through which linguistic and cultural representations are negotiated and shaped. Examining case studies from a variety of media, including film, television, and video games, […]

Brodie, Geraldine. 2018. The Translator on Stage. New York: Bloomsbury   About The Translator on Stage In today’s theatre, productions of plays that originated in another language are frequently distinguished by two characteristics: the authorship of the English text by a well-known local theatre specialist, and the absence of the term ‘translation’-generally in favour of ‘adaptation’ or ‘version’. The Translator on Stage investigates the […]