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.
Institutional Translator Training
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomáš Svoboda, Łucja Biel, Vilelmini Sosoni
August 26, 2024
This collection surveys the translator training landscape in international organizations on a global scale, offering a state-of-the-art view on institutional translator training research and practical takeaways for stakeholders. The volume’s focus on training brings a unique perspective to existing...
Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach
1st Edition
By Fabrizio Gallai
August 26, 2024
This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory (RT) in offering a cognitive-pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting (T&I), one which more closely engages T&I activity with the mental processes of speakers, listeners, writers, and readers during communicative...
The Behavioral Economics of Translation
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
August 26, 2024
This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting. The volume takes its points of departure from the ...
Towards a Feminist Translator Studies: Intersectional Activism in Translation and Publishing
1st Edition
By Helen Vassallo
August 26, 2024
This pioneering work advocates for a shift toward inclusivity in the UK translated literature landscape, investigating and challenging unconscious bias around women in translation and building on existing research highlighting the role of translators as activists and agents and the possibilities ...
Audio Description and Interpreting Studies: Interdisciplinary Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Cheng Zhan, Riccardo Moratto
July 31, 2024
Serving as a pioneering work, this volume offers a systematic and comprehensive exploration of the integration between Audio Description (AD) and interpreting studies. It not only sheds new light on the emerging field of AD research, but also enriches the more established discipline of interpreting...
Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-Shaping of Ideological Discourse
1st Edition
By M. Cristina Caimotto, Rachele Raus
May 27, 2024
This book investigates the role of translation processes in the shaping and re-shaping of ideological discourse and their impact on the actors involved in the translation process, focusing on institutional texts and their influence on lifestyle issues both public and personal. The volume employs a ...
Online Collaborative Translation in China and Beyond: Community, Practice, and Identity
1st Edition
By Chuan Yu
May 27, 2024
In this original and innovative work, Yu boldly tackles the increasingly influential collaborative translation phenomenon, with special reference to China. She employs the unique perspective of an ethnographer to explore how citizen translators work together as they select, translate, edit and ...
Reframing Translators, Translators as Reframers
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominique Faria, Marta Pacheco Pinto, Joana Moura
May 27, 2024
This collection explores the notion of reframing as a framework for better understanding the multi-agent and multi-level nature of the translation process, generating new conversations in current debates on translational agency, authority, and power. The volume puts forward reframing as an ...
Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation: Essays in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo
1st Edition
Edited
By D. M. Spitzer, Paulo Oliveira
May 27, 2024
This collection seeks to expand the centers from which scholars theorize translation, building on themes in Rosemary Arrojo’s pioneering work on transfiction and the influence of bordering disciplines in investigating and elucidating questions central to the field of translation studies. Chapters ...
Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By James Luke Hadley, Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov, Carlos S. C. Teixeira, Antonio Toral
May 27, 2024
This collection reflects on the state of the art of research into the use of translation technologies in the translation of creative texts, encompassing literary texts but also extending beyond to cultural texts, and charts their development and paths for further research. Bringing together ...
Contesting Epistemologies in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra L. Halverson, Álvaro Marín García
January 29, 2024
This dynamic collection synthesizes and critically reflects on epistemological challenges and developments within Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies, problematizing a range of issues. These critical essays provide a means of encouraging further development by grounding new theories, ...
Key Themes and New Directions in Systemic Functional Translation Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma
January 29, 2024
This collection features eight interviews with seven senior scholars, whose seminal works involve the application of Systemic Functional Linguistica (SFL) to translation studies have advanced Systemic Functional Translation Studies (SFTS) as a research agenda in its own right, with critical ...