Category: Publications

By Douglas Robinson Copyright Year 2023 Book Description This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the Left-Brain Interpreter (LBI), a module in the brain’s left hemisphere that seeks to make sense […]

Stefania M. Maci (Anthology Editor), Michele Sala (Anthology Editor) Description Presenting the digital humanities as both a domain of practice and as a set of methodological approaches to be applied to corpus linguistics and translation, chapters in this volume provide a novel and original framework to triangulate research for pursuing both scientific and educational goals within the digital humanities. They […]

Edited By Pamela Beattie, Simona Bertacco, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe Copyright Year 2023 Book Description Time, Space, Matter in Translation considers time, space, and materiality as legitimate habitats of translation. By offering a linked series of interdisciplinary case studies that show translation in action beyond languages and texts, this book provides a capacious and innovative understanding of what translation is, what it […]

e-ISSN: 2717-6959 Founded: 2020 Period: Biannually Publisher: Istanbul University About Istanbul University Journal of Translation Studies – İstanbul Üniversitesi Çeviribilim Dergisi, which is the official publication of Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters is an open access, peer-reviewed, multilingual, scholarly and international journal published two times a year in May and November. It was founded in 2010. The print version of […]

By Angela Tiziana Tarantini About this book This book examines the effects of translation on theatrical performance. The author adapts and applies Kershaw et al.’s Practice as Research model to an empirical investigation analysing the effects of translation on the rhythm and gesture of a playtext in performance, using the contemporary plays Convincing Ground and The Gully by Australian playwright […]

By Fei Gao, Jeremy Munday Abstract This study investigates empirically the way in which interpreter ideology is manifested in the evaluative language of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in China in 2016 (English–Chinese language pair). Methodologically, van Dijk’s Ideological Square and Martin and White’s Appraisal framework have been operationalised for the analysis of positive or negative evaluative language in […]

Edited By Christopher Stone, Robert Adam, Ronice Müller de Quadros, Christian Rathmann Copyright Year 2022 Book Description This Handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of sign language translation and interpretation from around the globe and looks ahead to future directions of research. Divided into eight parts, the book covers foundational skills, the working context of both the sign language translator […]

Edited By Brian James Baer, Michelle Woods Copyright Year 2023 Book Description The teaching of texts in translation has become an increasingly common practice, but so too has the teaching of texts from languages and cultures with which the instructor may have little or no familiarity. The authors in this volume present a variety of pedagogical approaches to promote translation […]

By Theo Hermans Copyright Year 2023 Book Description This concise and accessible textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key historical aspects of translation. Six chapters cover essential concepts in researching and writing the history of translation and translation as history. Theo Hermans presents and explains fundamental issues and questions in a clear and lively style. He includes numerous examples […]

By Luo Xuanmin Preface: Reflections on Translation and Chinese Modernity Translation is more than a linguistic act or an act of art; it is also an ethical and social one, which is purpose-driven and heavily influenced by ideology. Historians and scholars of cultural studies confirm this ideological role, although they only acknowledge it when they feel compelled to do so (Chen […]