Category: Publications

Edited By Riccardo Moratto, Mary Ann G. Bacolod Description The contributors to this book examine the state, development, issues, practices, and approaches to translation studies in the Philippines. The Philippines is a highly multilingual country, with many indigenous languages and regional dialects spoken alongside foreign imports, particularly English and Spanish. Professor Moratto, Professor Bacolod, and their contributors analyse the different […]

By Phindile Dlamini Description This book is a comprehensive introduction to translation studies between English and isiZulu. It incorporates crucial concepts for understanding the basics of translation within a South African language context and lays a foundation for further studies in translation. The book’s content coverage, while broad, is also in-depth, and it skillfully integrates examples from varied types of […]

By Isabelle Chou and Kanglong Liu Abstract This study examines the style of two English translations of Hongloumeng, by David Hawkes, and Xianyi Yang and Gladys Yang. It makes use of multidimensional analysis to identify how the two translations differ in their sub-registers (narration and fictional speech). The results reveal that the Yangs’ translation of narration is relatively more narrative […]

By Siwen Lu ABSTRACT This study aims to adopt existing methodologies to build a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)-based multimodal analytical framework capable of analysing swearing and its subtitling in their full multimodal context. The proposed framework offers tools to investigate how the communicative meanings of swearing are constructed through the interaction between different elements in different modes, and the effects […]

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 […]