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.
Metalanguages for Dissecting Translation Processes: Theoretical Development and Practical Applications
1st Edition
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By Rei Miyata, Masaru Yamada, Kyo Kageura
January 29, 2024
This edited volume covers the development and application of metalanguages for concretely describing and communicating translation processes in practice. In a modern setting of project-based translation, it is crucial to bridge the gaps between various actors involved in the translation process, ...
New Perspectives on Gender and Translation: New Voices for Transnational Dialogues
1st Edition
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By Eleonora Federici, José Santaemilia
January 29, 2024
This collection expands the body of research on the intersection of gender and translation to highlight perspectives across different countries in Europe, showcasing developments in the field from its origins in the emergence of feminist translation in Quebec over the last thirty years. Building ...
Translating Controversial Texts in East Asian Contexts: A Methodology for the Translation of ‘Controversy’
1st Edition
By Adam Zulawnik
January 29, 2024
Zulawnik focuses on the broad concept of ‘controversy’ and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial texts in East Asia. The research methodology is exemplified through a case study in the form of the author’s translation of the best-selling Japanese graphic...
Translating and Interpreting in Australia and New Zealand: Distance and Diversity
1st Edition
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By Judy Wakabayashi, Minako O'Hagan
January 29, 2024
This volume explores Australian and New Zealand experiences of translation and interpreting (T&I), with a special focus on the formative impact of geocultural contexts. Through the critical lenses of practitioners, scholars and related professionals working in and on these two countries, the ...
Translation, Reception and Canonization of The Art of War: Reviving Ancient Chinese Strategic Culture
1st Edition
By Tian Luo
January 29, 2024
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient yet invaluable Chinese military classic that is still relevant today. This book presents a systematic and in-depth investigation into the translation and reception of The Art of War in Western strategic culture. Aided by three self-built corpora, this ...
Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods
1st Edition
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By Özlem Berk Albachten, Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar
September 25, 2023
Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods explores retranslation from a variety of aspects and reflects methodological and theoretical developments in the field. Featuring eleven chapters, each offering a unique approach, the book presents a well-rounded analysis of contemporary ...
Global Insights into Public Service Interpreting: Theory, Practice and Training
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Moratto, Defeng Li
May 31, 2023
This edited volume sets out to explore interdisciplinarity issues and strategies in Public Service Interpreting (PSI), focusing on theoretical issues, global practices, and education and training. Unlike other types of interpreting, PSI touches on the most private spheres of human life, making it ...
The Qur’an, Translation and the Media: A Narrative Account
1st Edition
By Ahmed S. Elimam, Alysia S. Fletcher
May 31, 2023
This book aims to identify how the Qur’an is narrated in and by the press media through the use of translation, featuring examples from a corpus of newspaper articles from the UK and Europe across two decades. Drawing on work at the intersection of narrative theory and translation studies, the ...
The Translation of Realia and Irrealia in Game Localization: Culture-Specificity between Realism and Fictionality
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By Silvia Pettini
May 31, 2023
This book explores the impact of a video game’s degree of realism or fictionality on its linguistic dimensions, investigating the challenges and strategies for translating realia and irrealia, the interface of the real world and the game world where culture-specificity manifests itself. The ...
The Translation of Violence in Children’s Literature: Images from the Western Balkans
1st Edition
By Marija Todorova
May 31, 2023
Considering children’s literature as a powerful repository for creating and proliferating cultural and national identities, this monograph is the first academic study of children’s literature in translation from the Western Balkans. Marija Todorova looks at a broad range of children’s literature, ...
Translation and the Global City: Bridges and Gateways
1st Edition
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By Judith Weisz Woodsworth
May 31, 2023
Translation and the Global City showcases fresh perspectives on translation in a global context, drawing on case studies from Montreal and other multilingual cosmopolitan cities to examine the historical, sociological and cultural factors underpinning the travel of languages, ideas and cultures ...
African Perspectives on Literary Translation
1st Edition
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By Judith Inggs, Ella Wehrmeyer
January 09, 2023
This collection serves as a showcase for literary translation research with a focus on African perspectives, highlighting theoretical and methodological developments in the discipline while shedding further light on the literary landscape in Africa. The book offers a framework for understanding ...