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.
Jin Ping Mei English Translations: Texts, Paratexts and Contexts
1st Edition
By Lintao Qi
December 17, 2019
This book investigates the English translations and adaptations of the sixteenth century classic Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei. Acclaimed the ‘No.1 Marvellous Book’ of the Ming dynasty, Jin Ping Mei was banned soon after its appearance, due to the inclusion of graphically explicit sexual descriptions....
Consecutive Notetaking and Interpreter Training
1st Edition
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By Yasumasa Someya
September 25, 2019
This book focuses on the theoretical foundation of notetaking (NT), an essential skill of consecutive interpreting. Explaining the "whys" pertaining to the cognitive, linguistic, and pedagogical issues surrounding NT, this book addresses this neglected aspect of notetaking discourse and brings ...
Critical Translation Studies
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
September 25, 2019
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 ...
Translating Foreign Otherness: Cross-Cultural Anxiety in Modern China
1st Edition
By Yifeng Sun
September 25, 2019
This book explores the deep-rooted anxiety about foreign otherness manifest through translation in modern China in its endeavours to engage in cross-cultural exchanges. It offers to theorize and contextualize a related range of issues concerning translation practice in response to foreign otherness...
Translationality: Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
September 25, 2019
This book defines "translationality" by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a ...
Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Batchelor, Sue-Ann Harding
July 16, 2019
This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon’s texts, investigating how, when, where and why these—especially his seminal Les Damnés de la Terre (1961) —were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the author’s works in both postcolonial studies and ...
Translating Picturebooks: Revoicing the Verbal, the Visual and the Aural for a Child Audience
1st Edition
By Riitta Oittinen, Anne Ketola, Melissa Garavini
July 16, 2019
Translating Picturebooks examines the role of illustration in the translation process of picturebooks and how the word-image interplay inherent in the medium can have an impact both on translation practice and the reading process itself. The book draws on a wide range of picturebooks published and ...
Translation in Russian Contexts: Culture, Politics, Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian James Baer, Susanna Witt
July 16, 2019
This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a ...
Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Olga Castro, Emek Ergun
July 12, 2019
Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and ...
The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Kjersti Flottum
July 12, 2019
This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key...
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...