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.
Retour Interpreting: The Art of Interpreting into B
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Moratto, Irene A. Zhang
November 24, 2026
This book is a vital addition to the interpreting field, focusing on retour interpreting—interpreting from one’s native language (A) into a second language (B). This practice, once viewed as secondary, has become indispensable in today’s multilingual and multicultural contexts. As interpreters ...
Ruins as Translation Sites: Sensing Portions of Past Futures
1st Edition
By Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
November 11, 2026
Expanding on the growing body of work that approaches translation beyond language from an interdisciplinary perspective, this innovative book explores ruins as sites of translation. In Ruins as Translation Sites: Sensing Portions of Past Futures, Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte examines ruins as ...
Translation and Philosophy: Truth, Scepticism, Choices
1st Edition
By Mariana Dimópulos
November 10, 2026
Translation and Philosophy offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of translation and its concern with the problem of truth across the work of nine authors. The volume is grounded in the idea of the philosophy of translation as the philosophical discourse about translation written within...
Humanising Critical Journalistic Translation Studies: Insights from the Chinese Context
1st Edition
By Ali Jalalian Daghigh, Pei Soo Ang
October 16, 2026
Ali Jalalian Daghigh and Pei Soo Ang’s book provides new insights into the relationships between translation, journalism, ideology, and power via a humanising approach. Carving out a niche within Journalistic Translation Studies, the book introduces and expands on Critical Journalistic Translation ...
Lawyering Across Languages: The Dynamics of Lawyer Interpreter Collaboration in Legal Interviews
1st Edition
By Han Xu
October 13, 2026
This book offers a holistic view of the complex dynamics of interpreter-facilitated legal interviews, elucidating insights into challenges and opportunities for effective communication in legal settings in today’s multilingual world. The volume sheds light on an underexplored area of research at ...
Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
By Lijuan Du
September 28, 2026
Building on Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA) framework, Du examines the official translators’ agency in reconstructing the image of China. Comparing the source text and target text, her book focuses on ideologically striking translation shifts that occur at different levels. Drawing ...
Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets: Critical Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Health Care Interpreting
1st Edition
By Jinhyun Cho
September 27, 2026
Focusing on health care interpreting in Australia, this book examines the under-recognition of interpreting from a critical sociolinguistic perspective encompassing language, race and class. Interpreters play an important role in promoting diversity and inclusion but why is interpreting not ...
The World Within Reach: Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1550–1700
1st Edition
By Theo Hermans
September 22, 2026
This book traces the history of translation in the Early Modern Low Countries (roughly the modern-day Netherlands and Belgium), from around 1550 to around 1700. It focuses on the various roles played by translation in different contexts. In the latter half of the sixteenth century translation ...
Exploring Translation (Un)Awareness: Recognizing the Role of Translation in Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanya Escudero, Päivi Kuusi, Tuija Kinnunen
September 14, 2026
This collection proposes the notion of “translation awareness”, bringing together insights from different sectors to promote greater awareness to the nature, role, and effects of translation in contemporary society. This book presents translation awareness as a unifying term for the recognition by ...
A New Materialist Theory of Translation: Negotiating More-than-Human Co-Existence
1st Edition
By Matt Valler
September 06, 2026
This book proposes a New Materialist theory of translation, redefining translation as a negotiation of agency to address the urgent challenges of co-existence in the Anthropocene. In the face of increased migration, runaway climate change, and accelerating AI it takes an innovative ...
The Translator’s Visibility: New Debates and Epistemologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Larisa Cercel, Alice Leal
August 26, 2026
This collection illuminates the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of Lawrence Venuti’s seminal The Translator’s Invisibility, extending these conversations through a contemporary lens of epistemic justice while also exploring its manifestations and transposing it to different ...
Translation on Display: Multilingual Texts in Multimodal Museum Space
1st Edition
By Min-Hsiu Liao
August 26, 2026
This book foregrounds the role of translated texts in the study of the assemblages of semiotics resources in museums, important cultural institutions which encompass such sites as exhibition spaces, galleries, heritage sites, castles, and memorials. The book is organised in order of units of space,...