Author: Dingkun Wang

Music and Translation New Mediations in the Digital Age Lucile Desblache Link: https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781137549648#aboutBook   About this book: This book explores how transformations and translations shape musical meanings, developments and the perception of music across cultures. Starting with the concept of music as multimodal text, the author understands translation as the process of transferring a text from one language – verbal […]

Language and Literature, 28 (1) 2019 Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lal/current This Special Issue is intended to revive the words of songwriting for contemporary stylistics. This is important for two reasons. First, because song lyrics are an integral part of popular music, which itself is a domain of human experience that has enormous significance. Since its emergence through revolutionary media at the beginning […]

A complexity perspective on amateur translation networks By Dang Li This article will be included in the upcoming special issue of Perspectives on ‘Mapping Contemporary Audiovisual Translation in East Asia’. Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1609532 Abstract: Complexity theory is the study of complex systems composed of multiple interacting agents that function as a whole. A complexity-informed theory of social self-organisation is introduced and […]

The European Journal of Humour Research 7 (1), 2019: Special Issue on ‘Humour in Multimodal Translation’ Link: https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/issue/view/26/showToc (Open Access) Research articles in this issue: Editorial: Multilingual Humour in Translation, by Margherita Dore Abstract: This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has been developing over the last two decades by focusing in particular on new ways of communication. The […]

Accessible Filmmaking: Integrating translation and accessibility into the filmmaking process, 1st Edition By Pablo Romero-Fresco About this book: Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film industry, where current distribution strategies and exhibition platforms severely underestimate the audience that […]

Perspectives 29 (4), 2019: Special Issue on ‘Cognitive Explorations of Translation and Interpreting’ Researching the invisible: multi-methodological developments in cognitive translatology, by Adolfo M. García and Mónica C. Giozza Abstract: Much like other trends in translation and interpreting studies (TIS), cognitive approaches have long been marked by methodological challenges. Pioneering process-oriented works were mainly informed by speculative descriptions of carefully […]