Estudios de Traducción Title: Training Non-Professional Interpreters and Translators in Public Services Guest editor: Carmen Pena, University of Alcalá, Spain Deadline: 15th January 2025 The deadline for the regular issue has been extended till October 30. Considering the recent migration waves, translation and interpreting in public services and migration contexts are expanding research areas. By the end of the 20th […]
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Call for proposals for thematic issues for review by the journal’s editorial board Proposals for thematic issues for review by the journal’s editorial board Guest editors may submit proposals for thematic issues to the journal’s editorial board. To do so, please send your proposal to Prof. Dr Isabelle Robert, using the journal’s general e-mail address (lans.tts@gmail.com). To be considered, proposals […]
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The idea that translation could take place between sign systems other than the verbal was first mooted by Roman Jakobson in 1959, but, for reasons that had largely to do with the intellectual climate and a tendency towards disciplinary over-specialization, it took some time for the concept to be applied to music. However, in recent years, a number of works […]
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Belas Infiéis Brazilian open-access journal from National University of Brasilia (UnB) Accepts articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French Translating Translation Theory Translating, in any instance, involves dealing with the reflective dimension of metatranslation (Hermans, 2014). In this regard, we can perceive the act of translating translation theory as an enhanced metatranslation: theory is present in practice, and practice is […]
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Translation Matters publishes two issues per year, a general issue in the Spring and a Special (thematic) Issue in the Autumn. Submissions for the general issues are welcome throughout the year and may be uploaded onto the platform at any time. They will automatically be considered for the next available Spring issue. The Special Issues are subject to Calls for Papers. […]
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Activism and Translation are at the core of recent research. For example, Shwaikh (2020) published a chapter on Gaza Strip highlighting the importance of speaking a different language in a war-zone country and emphasising the power of witness and of translating the voices of the oppressed. Mona Baker pioneered the movement of translators’ activism in the Arabic-speaking region through her […]
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Values of Sustainability, Climate Change Living, and the Transition into an (Agro)Ecological Society as a Pathway Introduction At the CANR/NCHU [1], we focus on an interdisciplinary study of sustainability culture and what is needed to achieve the ‘Great (Agro)Ecological Transition’ (NCHU/IAC, 2024). In our research, we find that the same core question arises over and time again: how is it […]
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Special Issue of Feminist Translation Studies Abstract deadline 15 May 2024 Manuscript deadline 15 October 2024 Special Issue Editor(s) Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK S.Susam-Saraeva@ed.ac.uk Carolyn Shread, Mount Holyoke College, US cshread@mtholyoke.edu Intersections between gender, feminism and environmental issues have been explored in Western scholarship for more than fifty years now, catalyzed by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring […]
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Sharon Black, University of East Anglia, UK sharon.black@uea.ac.uk Emília Perez, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia eperez@ukf.sk Recent advances in media accessibility education In recent times media accessibility (MA) has been gaining ground internationally, and is now a necessary requirement and a “proactive principle” (Greco 2016, 21) for the fulfilment of the human right of all citizens to have […]
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Special Issue Editor(s) Maya de Wit, Independent Researcher, Netherlands maya@tolkngt.nl Sabine Fries, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, SLI, Germany sabine.fries@haw-landshut.de Irene Strasly, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva, Switzerland irene.strasly@unige.ch Training signed language interpreters and translators Training of signed language interpreters began already in the 1920s in Russia. Nowadays, interpreters in signed languages are generally trained to work […]
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