Translation Theories Explored
About the Book Series
Translation Theories Explored is a series designed to engage with the range and diversity of contemporary translation studies. Translation itself is as vital and as charged as ever. If anything, it has become more plural, more varied and more complex in today\'s world. The study of translation has responded to these challenges with vigour. In recent decades the field has gained in depth, its scope continues to expand and it is increasingly interacting with other disciplines. The series sets out to reflect and foster these developments. It aims to keep track of theoretical developments, to explore new areas, approaches and issues, and generally to extend and enrich the intellectual horizon of translation studies. Special attention is paid to innovative ideas that may not as yet be widely known but deserve wider currency.
Individual volumes explain and assess particular approaches. Each volume combines an overview of the relevant approach with case studies and critical reflection, placing its subject in a broad intellectual and historical context, illustrating the key ideas with examples, summarizing the main debates, accounting for specific methodologies, achievements and blind spots, and opening up new perspectives for the future. Authors are selected not only on their close familiarity and personal affinity with a particular approach but also on their capacity for lucid exposition, critical assessment and imaginative thought. The series is aimed at researchers and graduate students who wish to learn about new approaches to translation in a comprehensive but accessible way.
Translation and Gender: Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism'
2nd Edition
By Luise von Flotow
December 22, 2025
This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a “gendered” way of understanding translation by convincingly constructing a link between translation studies and the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies. Translation and Gender places work in ...
Translation and Practice Theory
1st Edition
By Maeve Olohan
October 14, 2020
Translation and Practice Theory is a timely and theoretically innovative study linking professional practice and translation theory, showing the usefulness of a practice-theoretical approach in addressing some of the challenges that the professional world of translation is currently facing, ...
Translation and Style
2nd Edition
By Jean Boase-Beier
September 18, 2019
Style plays a major role in the translation of literary as well as non-literary texts, and Translation and Style offers an updated survey of this highly interdisciplinary area of translation studies. Jean Boase-Beier examines a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches including stylistics,...
Translation and Paratexts
1st Edition
By Kathryn Batchelor
May 10, 2018
As the 'thresholds' through which readers and viewers access texts, paratexts have already sparked important scholarship in literary theory, digital studies and media studies. Translation and Paratexts explores the relevance of paratexts for translation studies and provides a framework for further ...
Translation as Metaphor
1st Edition
By Rainer Guldin
March 26, 2018
In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new, overlapping theoretical territories and the ...
Translating as a Purposeful Activity: Functionalist Approaches Explained
2nd Edition
By Christiane Nord
March 05, 2018
This bestselling text is a comprehensive overview of functionalist approaches to translation in English. Christiane Nord, one of the leading figures in translation studies, explains the complexities of theories and terms in simple language with numerous examples. Covering how the theories developed...
Cosmopolitanism and Translation: Investigations into the Experience of the Foreign
1st Edition
By Esperanca Bielsa
May 23, 2016
Social theories of the new cosmopolitanism have called attention to the central importance of translation, in areas such as global democracy, human rights and social movements, but translation studies has not engaged systematically with theories of cosmopolitanism. In Cosmopolitanism and ...
Translation and Empire
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
May 26, 2015
Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of postcolonial theory, examines current ...
Deconstruction and Translation
1st Edition
By Kathleen Davis
August 15, 2014
Deconstruction and Translation explains ways in which many practical and theoretical problems of translation can be rethought in the light of insights from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. If there is no one origin, no transcendent meaning, and thus no stable source text, we can no longer ...
Translation and Language Education: Pedagogic Approaches Explored
1st Edition
By Sara Laviosa
August 11, 2014
The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities. In this book, Sara Laviosa proposes a translation-based pedagogy that is grounded in theory and has been ...
Representing Others: Translation, Ethnography and Museum
1st Edition
By Kate Sturge
April 29, 2014
Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used 'translation' as a metaphor to describe ethnography's processes of interpretation and cross-cultural comparison. Questions of intelligibility and representation are central to both ...