Category: Publications

The Translator 24 (4): Translation and Development Edited by Kobus Marais Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrn20/24/4?nav=tocList& Introduction by the editor, open access:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13556509.2019.1602306 Linking translation studies and development studies have a number of advantages for translation studies. I would anticipate that such a pairing would also hold advantages for development studies, especially in community development (Westoby 2013; Westoby and Dowling 2013) and in […]

Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting: Crossing Methodological Boundaries, 1st Edition. Edited by Łucja Biel, Jan Engberg, Rosario Martín Ruano, Vilelmini Sosoni Link: https://www.routledge.com/Research-Methods-in-Legal-Translation-and-Interpreting-Crossing-Methodological/Biel-Engberg-Martin-Ruano-Sosoni/p/book/9781138492103 About this book: The field of legal translation and interpreting has strongly expanded over recent years. As it has developed into an independent branch of Translation Studies, this book advocates fora substantiated discussion of methods […]

Machine Translation and Global Research: Towards Improved Machine Translation Literacy in the Scholarly Community Lynne Bowker and Jairo Buitrago Ciro Link: https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Machine-Translation-and-Global-Research/?k=9781787567221 About this book: In the global research community, English has become the main language of scholarly publishing in many disciplines. At the same time, online machine translation systems have become increasingly easy to access and use. Is this […]

International Journal of Language Translation and Intercultural Communication: Volume 8, 2019 Link: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/latic/issue/view/1252/showToc Guest Editor’s Foreword, by Verónica Arnáiz-Uzquiza and Christos Stavrou Audiovisual Translation appeared as a term in the academia in the 1980s and according to Gambier (1996) ‘AVT has benefited from the rapid development of research interest and of institutional commitment, even though the field remains essentially European. […]

Translating and Interpreting in Korean Contexts: Engaging with Asian and Western Others, 1st Edition Edited by Ji-Hae Kang, Judy Wakabayashi Routledge 248 pages The focus of this volume is on how the people of the Korean Peninsula—historically an important part of the Sinocentric world in East Asia and today a vital economic and strategic site—have negotiated oral and written interactions with their Asian […]

Circulation of Academic Thought: Rethinking Translation in the Academic Field Edited By Rafael Y. Schögler Academic thought circulates on a time-space continuum: authors, ideas and methods are discovered, discussed, discarded, praised, rewritten, refracted, transformed, transposed and translated. The contributors of this anthology develop cross-disciplinary approaches to study and understand translation of academic thought. They critically engage with the relationship of translation […]

Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom: Training the Doers Editors: De Marco, Marcella, Toto, Piero (Eds.) This volume examines strategies for embedding gender awareness within translation studies and translator training programmes. Drawing on a rich collection of theoretically-informed case studies, its authors provide practical advice and examples on implementing gender-inclusive approaches and language strategies in the classroom. It focuses on topics including, how […]

Parallèles: 31 (1) Link: https://www.paralleles.unige.ch/files/6615/5541/5748/Paralleles_31-1_2019.pdf Abstracts in English: Petit traité de titrologie traductologique, by Muguraş Constantinescu This article provides a brief overview of Lance Hewson’s writings in translation studies. It first examines the art of titling, as demonstrated by this atypical translation scholar, whose titles are at once surprising, playful, intertextual and engaging. It then explores the issues in translation […]

Special Issue: The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia – Part I: Visions and Networks Edited by Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini Link: https://brill.com/abstract/journals/jwl/4/1/jwl.4.issue-1.xml?fbclid=IwAR22TEAL-hN-hMRZz4_Kq3K3AyxLOJcsoYJ5rFs2p2OTTdEVym4Wz0xSpJk In this special issue: Introduction, by Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini That location matters for critics, readers but also texts, as Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s quote suggests, is a deceptively simple point. To […]

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology Edited by Minako O’Hagan Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Translation-and-Technology/OHagan/p/book/9781138232846?fbclid=IwAR39HhOxu-Mc5pJGXCRc3cEko9c2GOz_tkNfKst76yT_HOxa7dCKs0hmsGY   About this book: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the dynamically evolving relationship between translation and technology. Divided into five parts, with an editor’s introduction, this volume presents the perspectives of users of translation technologies, and of researchers […]