Author: Dingkun Wang

Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960-1991 Natalia Kamovnikova  About this book: During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite fluctuating government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Pressure offers an insider’s look at Soviet censorship and […]

Methods for the Study of Multimodality in Translation Edited by Anne Maria Ketola, Tiina Tuominen, Catalina Jiménez Hurtado   Introduction – Why methods matter: Approaching multimodality in translation research, by Anne Maria Ketola, Tiina Tuominen, Catalina Jiménez Hurtado Abstract: The study of multimodal phenomena calls upon translation scholars to cross disciplinary boundaries and adopt a range of theoretical and methodological […]

Chronopotos: A Journal of Translation History Inaugural Issue, 2019 Link to the issue: https://chronotopos.eu/index.php/cts/issue/view/25/full%20issue About this journal: Doing Translation History is booming. In recent years, various academic fields, such as Translation Studies, Literary Studies, History of Knowledge Research, or Transfer Studies, have, to an ever-increasing extent, taken on translation phenomena from an historical angle. This has, in fact, led to […]

Focusing on Audiovisual Translation Research Edited by John D. Sanderson and Carla Botella-Tejera About this book: The aim of this volume is to make a statement on the importance of research on Audiovisual Translation, both in its different varieties of production (dubbing, subtitling, surtitling, voice-over and e-learning) and in its relationship with language acquisition. On the whole, it is a […]

Journal of Chinese Cinemas: 12 (3) 2018 Special issue: The translation and dissemination of Chinese cinemas Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjcc20/current Introduction: The translation and dissemination of Chinese cinemas by Haina Jin Abstract: This introduction provides a brief historical overview of the translation of Chinese cinemas and explores how film translation facilitates the dissemination of Chinese films. It also gives a description of […]