Category: Publications

By Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo Copyright 2024 Description Localization is everywhere in our digital world, from apps to websites or games. Our interconnected digital world functions in part thanks to invisible localization processes that allow global users to engage with all sorts of digital content and products. This textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical, practical and methodological issues […]

By Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo ABSTRACT This paper studies the potential impact of ‘paid translation crowdsourcing’ on translators’ status through a corpus study of discourses found in language industry websites. It has been argued in Translation Studies literature that in this model crowdsourcing companies attempt to redefine translation ‘professionalism’ or ‘competence’ as a monolithic notion to include a dynamic range of […]

Publisher: Routledge Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2024 Editors: Wenqian Zhang (University of Exeter, UK), Sui He (Swansea University, UK) Chinese Internet literature (CIL), also known as Chinese online/web/network literature, refers to “Chinese-language writing, either in established literary genres or in innovative literary forms, written especially for publication in an interactive online context and […]

Author(s): Jan Buts, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska, James Hadley Abstract In August 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled Why is this colorful little wheel suddenly everywhere in Japan? ( Dooley and Ueno 2022 ). The little wheel refers to the logo of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a United Nations (UN) initiative at the core of Agenda […]

Special Issue Editor(s) Feng Cui, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore cuifeng@ntu.edu.sg Defeng Li, University of Macau, Macau SAR defengli@um.edu.mo Chiyuan Zhuang, Shanghai International Studies University, China zhuangchiyuan@shisu.edu.cn Transforming translation education through artificial intelligence In the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the rapid development of online education around the world, which has also brought enormous impact to the traditional […]

By Manuel Lardelli ABSTRACT The increased visibility of non-binary individuals has fostered discussions around language and inclusivity. Due to differences in grammatical structures and language-specific strategies to represent non-binary genders, translation from notional gender languages into grammatical gender languages is extremely challenging. Hence, I propose a case study in gender-fair translation from English into German. Six language professionals translated three […]

By Ahmad Ayyad ABSTRACT This article examines contested naming practices in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict from a translation perspective. Examples are drawn from two political plans, namely, the “Tenet Plan” and the “Disengagement Plan” and their different translations. The two plans were translated by different agents – including governmental and non-governmental institutions as well as media outlets – into Arabic and […]

By Luigi Alonzi Description This volume considers how the act through which historians interpret the past can be understood as one of epistemological and cognitive translation. The book convincingly argues that words, images, and historical and archaeological remains can all be considered as objects deserving the same treatment on the part of historians, whose task consists exactly in translating their […]

By Anna Maria Cipriani About this book This book presents a systematic literary comparison of the retranslations by adopting a mixed-method and bottom-up (inductive) approach by developing an empirical corpus approach. This corpus is specifically tailored to identify and study linguistic and non-linguistic modernist features throughout the texts, such as stream of consciousness-indirect interior monologue and free indirect speech. All […]

https://www.intralinea.org/specials/reimagining_comics Edited by: Michał Borodo Introduction Re-Imagining Comics Translation Michał Borodo (Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland)   Contributions Tintin Re-imagined and Re-purposed: What Happens When Tintin Is Unleashed from Hergé? Terry Bradford (University of Leeds, UK) Changes in the Visual Qualities of Translated Sound Effects Outside Speech Balloons: Focusing on Korean Graphic Novels Translated into English and French Jagyeong Kim (Ewha […]