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.
Translation and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriel González Núñez, Reine Meylaerts
July 12, 2019
This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely ...
Untranslatability Goes Global
1st Edition
Edited
By Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan
July 12, 2019
This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. The chapters depart from the pragmatics of translation practice and move...
Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Beverley Curran, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Kikuko Tanabe
June 07, 2019
Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of ...
The Dao of Translation: An East-West Dialogue
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
September 27, 2018
The Dao of Translation sets up an East-West dialogue on the nature of language and translation, and specifically on the "unknown forces" that shape the act of translation. To that end it mobilizes two radically different readings of the Daodejing (formerly romanized as the Tao Te Ching): the ...
The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory: In memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013
1st Edition
Edited
By Douglas Robinson
September 27, 2018
This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheung’s "pushing-hands" method of translation studies. Pushing-hands was an idea Martha began exploring in the last four years of her life, and only had time to publish at article length in...
Translating Feminism in China: Gender, Sexuality and Censorship
1st Edition
By Zhongli Yu
September 27, 2018
This book explores translation of feminism in China through examining several Chinese translations of two typical feminist works: The Second Sex (TSS, Beauvoir 1949/1952) and The Vagina Monologues (TVM, Ensler 1998). TSS exposes the cultural construction of woman while TVM reveals the pervasiveness...
Queer in Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By B.J. Epstein, Robert Gillett
July 30, 2018
As the field of translation studies has developed, translators and translation scholars have become more aware of the unacknowledged ideologies inherent both in texts themselves and in the mechanisms that affect their circulation. This book both analyses the translation of queerness and applies ...
Bourdieu in Translation Studies: The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt
1st Edition
By Sameh Hanna
February 12, 2018
This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. Bourdieu’s work has continued to inspire research on translation in the last few years, though without a detailed, large-scale investigation that ...
Cultural Politics of Translation: East Africa in a Global Context
1st Edition
By Alamin Mazrui
February 12, 2018
This book is the first full-length examination of the cultural politics at work in the act of translation in East Africa, providing close critical analyses of a variety of texts that demonstrate the myriad connections between translation and larger socio-political forces. Looking specifically at ...
Translating Culture Specific References on Television: The Case of Dubbing
1st Edition
By Irene Ranzato
February 12, 2018
Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the translational norms of contemporary Italian dubbing practices. This monograph makes a distinctive ...
Ubiquitous Translation
1st Edition
By Piotr Blumczynski
January 08, 2018
In this book, Piotr Blumczynski explores the central role of translation as a key epistemological concept as well as a hermeneutic, ethical, linguistic and interpersonal practice. His argument is three-fold: (1) that translation provides a basis for genuine, exciting, serious, innovative and ...
Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global
1st Edition
By Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino
February 06, 2017
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 ...