Category: Publications

Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies, special issue on Media Accessibility Training, Vol 18 (2019)   Editors : Gert Vercauteren (University of Antwerp) and Iwona Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) Table of Contents Introduction Foreword in honour of Professor Aline Remael Gert Vercauteren, Iwona Mazur PDF Media accessibility training Iwona Mazur, Gert Vercauteren PDF Articles Towards […]

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Advances in Empirical Translation Studies: Developing Translation Resources and Technologies   Edited by Meng Ji, University of Sydney, Michael Oakes, University of Wolverhampton Publisher: Cambridge University Press Online publication date: June 2019 Print publication year: 2019 Online ISBN: 9781108525695 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525695   Empirical translation studies is a rapidly evolving research area. This volume, written by world-leading researchers, demonstrates the integration of two new research paradigms: socially-oriented […]

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New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory Editors: Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez, Alicia Castillo Villanueva Part of the Palgrave Studies in Languages at War book series (PASLW) Introduction This varied and well-documented set of case studies focused on translation and conflict in Spain supplements accounts of repression and censorship with innovative ideas drawn from memory studies, affording a contemporary political perspective on the dark days of […]

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transLogos Translation Studies Journal Volume 2 (Issue 2)   Integrating Machine Translation into Translator Training: Towards ‘Human Translator Competence’? Pages 1 – 26, Senem ÖNER BULUT Antifragile Tactics for Translators—A Primer Pages 27 – 47, Marco NEVES Intralingual Translation Has No Name in Turkey: Conceptual Crowdedness in Intralingual Translation Pages 48 – 69, Aslı KALEM BAKKAL (Re)Positioning of Inter- and […]

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Speech Acts, Directness and Politeness in Dubbing: American Television Series in Hungary Series: New Trends in Translation Studies Károly Polcz The culture specificity of speech acts may pose daunting challenges in translating audiovisual products. This volume offers intriguing insights into the ways dubbing translators seek to establish pragmatic equivalence in speech acts such as requests, instructions, advice, invitations and offers. What is […]

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Humour in Audiovisual Translation: Theories and Applications 1st Edition Margherita Dore This book offers a comprehensive account of the audiovisual translation (AVT) of humour, bringing together insights from translation studies and humour studies to outline the key theories underpinning this growing area of study and their applications to case studies from television and film. The volume outlines the ways in […]

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The edited volume entitled Researching Translation in the Age of Technology and Global Conflict: Selected Works of Mona Baker, edited by Kyung Hye Kim, the Honorary Associate Director of SISU Baker Centre, and Yifan Zhu, the Honorary Director of SISU Baker Centre, is now published. Researching Translation in the Age of Technology and Global Conflict: Selected Works of Mona Baker […]

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The article entitled ‘The individual on the move: Redefining ‘individualism’ in China’ by Yifan Zhu, the Honorary Director of SISU Baker Centre, and Kyung Hye Kim, the Honorary Associate Director of SISU Baker Centre, is now published online in Translation and Interpreting Studies. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.19052.zhu The individual on the move: Redefining ‘individualism’ in China Yifan Zhu, Kyung Hye Kim The concept […]

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Translation and Multimodality: Beyond Words, 1st Edition Edited by Monica Boria, Ángeles Carreres, María Noriega-Sánchez, Marcus Tomalin Routledge Translation and Multimodality: Beyond Words is one of the first books to explore how translation needs to be redefined and reconfigured in contexts where multiple modes of communication, such as writing, images, gesture, and music, occur simultaneously. Bringing together world-leading experts in translation theory and multimodality, each chapter […]

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When News Travels East: Translation Practices by Japanese Newspapers Kayo Matsushita Journalism and unique translation practices by Japanese media today International news stories provided to the public basically rely on translation. Most of this translation is done not by translators, but by journalists with practically no training in translation. What happens when the norms of journalism and those of translation clash? […]

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