Category: Publications

Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance by James St. André This provocative new book applies the perspective of cross-identity performance to the translation of a wide variety of Chinese texts into English and French from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing on scholarship in cultural studies, queer studies, and anthropology, James St. André argues that many cross-identity performance techniques, including […]

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, published by the American University in Cairo, has released its 38th issue (2018) Translation and the Production of Knowledge(s) Guest-edited by Mona Baker  http://schools.aucegypt.edu/huss/eclt/alif/Pages/CallforArticlesAlif38.aspx The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is “produced” rather than “discovered,” and that translation is a core mechanism for the production and circulation of all forms of knowledge. […]

Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation Edited by Elena Di Giovanni & Yves Gambier   The coming of age of audiovisual translation studies has brought about a much-needed surge of studies focusing on the audience, their comprehension, appreciation or rejection of what reaches them through the medium of translation. Although complex to perform, studies on the reception of translated audiovisual texts […]

Communities in Translation and Interpreting Edited by Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov, Liisa Tiittula and Maarit Koponen As fundamentally social activities, translation and interpreting necessarily engage with the notion of community. Translators and interpreters ensure communication between different linguistic communities, work themselves within professional communities, interact with other communities of agents in the translation or interpretation process, and reach out to diverse communities […]

Gender and Translation: Understanding Agents in Transnational Reception Edited by Isis Herrero López, Cecilia Alvstad, Johanna Akujärvi and Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner Contemporary research in Translation Studies highlights the fundamental role gender plays in translation and transnational reception. This volume brings fresh insights to this rich field of inquiry by examining how gender impacts concretely on the real-world agents who participate […]

Jin Ping Mei English Translations: Texts, Paratexts and Contexts Lintao Qi   Link to the website: https://www.routledge.com/Jin-Ping-Mei-English-Translations-Texts-Paratexts-and-Contexts/Lintao/p/book/9781138481152 About this book: This book investigates the English translations and adaptations of the sixteenth century classic Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei. Acclaimed the ‘No.1 Marvellous Book’ of the Ming dynasty, Jin Ping Mei was banned soon after its appearance, due to the inclusion […]

Order Effects in the Translation Process, by Christopher D. Mellinger and Thomas A. Hanson ABSTRACT: This study investigates how the order in which various translation memory match-types occur in a target language version of a text may influence translator behavior and cognition. Empirical research designs often attempt to mitigate for possible confounds from order effects, yet explicit recognition of the […]

Philosophy and Practice in Translational Hermeneutics edited by John Stanley, Brian O’Keeffe, Radegundis Stolze, and Larisa Cercel   Link to the website: http://www.zetabooks.com/books/translation-studies/stanley-j-o-keeffe-b-stolze-r-cercel-l-eds-translational-hermeneutics-philosophy-and-practice.html About this book: This volume presents selected papers from the second symposium on Translational Hermeneutics held at Cologne in 2013. Hermeneutics offers a way to understand understanding itself – how we apprehend and process meaning, and indeed go […]