Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of translation studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
Translating Molière for the English-speaking Stage: The Role of Verse and Rhyme
1st Edition
By Cédric Ploix
January 08, 2022
This book critically analyzes the body of English language translations Moliere’s work for the stage, demonstrating the importance of rhyme and verse forms, the creative work of the translator, and the changing relationship with source texts in these translations and their reception. The volume ...
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale
1st Edition
By Darryl Sterk
December 13, 2021
Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with the Japanese colonizers at or around a hill ...
Sense in Translation: Essays on the Bilingual Body
1st Edition
By Caroline Rabourdin
December 13, 2021
This innovative and interdisciplinary work brings together six essays which explore the complex relationship between linguistic translation and spatial translation and argue for an understanding of linguistic translation as an embodied phenomenon.Integrating perspectives from philosophy, ...
Chinese–English Interpreting and Intercultural Communication
1st Edition
By Jim Hlavac, Zhichang Xu
September 30, 2021
Chinese and English are the world’s largest languages, and the number of interpreter-mediated interactions involving Chinese and English speakers has increased exponentially over the last 30 years. This book presents and describes examples of Chinese–English interpreting across a large number of ...
Translation and Hegel's Philosophy: A Transformative, Socio-narrative Approach to A.V. Miller’s Cold-War Retranslations
1st Edition
By David Charlston
September 30, 2021
This volume engages with translations of philosophy as complex, socially structured narratives bound by emotional, political and philosophical connections, exploring these dynamics at work in A.V. Miller’s Hegel translations and retranslations published between 1969 and 1986. The book ...
Translation as Actor-Networking: Actors, Agencies, and Networks in the Making of Arthur Waley’s English Translation of the Chinese 'Journey to the West'
1st Edition
By Wenyan Luo
September 30, 2021
This book employs actor-network theory (ANT) to explore the making of the English translation of a work of Chinese canonical fiction, Journey to the West, demonstrating how ANT, as applied to Translation Studies, can contribute to a richer understanding of the translation process.The volume builds ...
Evaluating the Evaluator: A Novel Perspective on Translation Quality Assessment
1st Edition
By Hansjörg Bittner
August 02, 2021
This book offers a theoretical framework for assessing translation quality grounded in supportive argumentation. The volume outlines a systematic framework for translators and translation critics to substantiate their decisions and judgments on a translation’s quality and in the case of negative ...
Humour in Audiovisual Translation: Theories and Applications
1st Edition
By Margherita Dore
August 02, 2021
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 ...
New Empirical Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting
1st Edition
Edited
By Lore Vandevoorde, Joke Daems, Bart Defrancq
August 02, 2021
Drawing on work from both eminent and emerging scholars in translation and interpreting studies, this collection offers a critical reflection on current methodological practices in these fields toward strengthening the theoretical and empirical ties between them. Methodological and technological ...
The Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry
1st Edition
Edited
By John Corbett, Ting Huang
June 30, 2021
This volume addresses the global reception of "untranslatable" concrete poetry. Featuring contributions from an international group of literary and translation scholars and practitioners, working across a variety of languages, the book views the development of the international concrete poetry ...
Translating and Interpreting in Korean Contexts: Engaging with Asian and Western Others
1st Edition
Edited
By Ji-Hae Kang, Judy Wakabayashi
June 30, 2021
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 neighbors and Europeans in the past and present ...
Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation
1st Edition
By Mark Shuttleworth
March 31, 2021
Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation presents a multilingual examination of the translation of metaphors. Mark Shuttleworth explores this facet of translation and develops a theoretically nuanced description of the procedures that translators have recourse to when translating ...