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.
Systematically Analysing Indirect Translations: Putting the Concatenation Effect Hypothesis to the Test
1st Edition
By James Luke Hadley
October 08, 2024
This volume applies digital humanities methodologies to indirect translations in testing the concatenation effect hypothesis. The concatenation effect hypothesis suggests that indirect translations tend to omit or alter identifiably foreign elements and also tend not to identify themselves as ...
Translating in the Local Community
1st Edition
By Peter Flynn
October 08, 2024
This volume showcases different forms of natural and non-professional translation and interpreting at work at multilingual sites in a single city, shedding new light on our understanding of the intersection of city, migration and translation. Flynn builds on work in translation studies, ...
Translation Competence: Theory, Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Carla Quinci
October 07, 2024
This book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of translation competence (TC), reflecting on its different models and conceptualisations throughout its development and outlining future directions for both theory and practice. The volume charts the evolution of TC in line with related ...
Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Moratto, Defeng Li
August 26, 2024
Professor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Defeng Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches. Inside scholars ...
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 ...