Category: Publications

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE TRANSLATION STUDIES CURRICULUM Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody Sue-Ann Harding Hamad bin Khalifa University Abstract FULL TEXT PDF This article details how a group of instructors at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar instituted an integrated curriculum for all students entering the university’s Master in Translation Studies and Master in Audiovisual Translation. First, it discusses the unique multicultural […]

Translation Studies beyond the Postcolony   Editor(s):Kobus Marais, Ilse Feinauer Contributors:  Maria Tymoczko, Christopher Thurman, Serena Talento, Chloe Signès, Holger Siever, Cynthia L. Miller-Nandé, Jacobus A. Naude, Tshokolo Johannes Makutoane, Reine Meylaerts, Alamin Mazrui, Kobus Marais, Caroline Mangerel, Tania Paola Hernández-Hernández, Adrián Fuentes-Luque, Fernanda Alencar Pereira, Ilse Feinauer, Paul F. Bandia, Amarílis Anchieta; Book Description This edited volume explores the […]

Volume 17, Issue 2, December 2016 issue

New issue of trans-Kom

Trans nº 20 (2016)   Artículos Accesibility and multilingualism: an exploratory study on the Machine translation of audio descriptions Anna Matamala & Carla Ortiz-Boix The treatment of offensive and taboo terms in the subtitling of Reservoir Dogs into Spanish José Javier Ávila-Cabrera Las primeras traducciones al catalán y al español de La Princesse de Clèves (1678). Un clásico francés que […]

CLINA: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF TRANSLATION, INTERPRETING AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION   CLINA is a Translation Studies journal that showcases recent advances in Translation, Interpreting and neighboring disciplines. The journal’s name alludes to the complex and interconnected nature of translatorial and communicative phenomena. Founded by the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Salamanca and published by Ediciones Universidad de […]

Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global By Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino   This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It offers a descriptive analysis of the industry – understood as a global phenomenon in entertainment – and aims to explain the norms governing present industry practices, as well as game localisation […]

Translation and Social Media: In Theory, in Training and in Professional Practice Authors: Desjardins, Renée   This book offers a timely discussion of translation and social media through the lens of three overarching themes that structure the book: theory, training, and professional practice. The author includes references that cite recent translation and social media industry data, while also drawing on contemporary […]

Critical Translation Studies By Douglas Robinson   About the Book This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu, with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in society. The central claim […]