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.
Interpreters and War Crimes
1st Edition
By Kayoko Takeda
September 26, 2022
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book raises new questions and provides different perspectives on the roles, responsibilities, ethics and protection of interpreters in war while investigating the substance and agents of Japanese war crimes and legal aspects of interpreters’ taking part in...
Multimodal Approaches to Chinese-English Translation and Interpreting
1st Edition
Edited
By Meifang Zhang, Dezheng (William) Feng
August 01, 2022
Nowadays, discourse analysis deals with not only texts but also paratexts and images; so do translation and interpreting studies. Therefore, the concept of multimodality has become an increasingly important topic in the subject areas of linguistics, discourse analysis and translation studies. ...
Translational Spaces: Towards a Chinese-Western Convergence
1st Edition
By Yifeng Sun
August 01, 2022
This book explores the concept of space, or rather spaces, in relation to translation, to construct a conceptual framework for research to better understand and solve translation problems. A number of interrelated spatial perspectives on translation supported by empirical evidence are presented to ...
Institutional Translation and Interpreting: Assessing Practices and Managing for Quality
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Prieto Ramos
May 30, 2022
This collection brings together new insights around current translation and interpreting practices in national and supranational settings. The book illustrates the importance of further reflection on issues around quality and assessment, given the increased development of resources for translators ...
A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919–2019): English Publication and Reception
1st Edition
Edited
By Leah Gerber, Lintao Qi
May 06, 2022
This book delves into the Chinese literary translation landscape over the last century, spanning critical historical periods such as the Cultural Revolution in the greater China region. Contributors from all around the world approach this theme from various angles, providing an overview of ...
Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting: Linking Linguistic Approaches with Socio-cultural Interpretation
1st Edition
Edited
By Binhua Wang, Jeremy Munday
April 29, 2022
This edited thematic collection features latest developments of discourse analysis in translation and interpreting studies. It investigates the process of how cultural and ideological intervention is conducted in translation and interpreting using a wide array of discourse analysis and systemic ...
Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture
1st Edition
By María Constanza Guzmán
April 29, 2022
This book reflects on translation praxis in 20th century Latin American print culture, tracing the trajectory of linguistic heterogeneity in the region and illuminating collective efforts to counteract the use of translation as a colonial tool and affirm cultural production in Latin America. In ...
Translating Molière for the English-speaking Stage: The Role of Verse and Rhyme
1st Edition
By Cédric Ploix
January 08, 2022
This book critically analyzes the body of English language translations Moliere’s work for the stage, demonstrating the importance of rhyme and verse forms, the creative work of the translator, and the changing relationship with source texts in these translations and their reception. The volume ...
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale
1st Edition
By Darryl Sterk
December 13, 2021
Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with the Japanese colonizers at or around a hill ...
Sense in Translation: Essays on the Bilingual Body
1st Edition
By Caroline Rabourdin
December 13, 2021
This innovative and interdisciplinary work brings together six essays which explore the complex relationship between linguistic translation and spatial translation and argue for an understanding of linguistic translation as an embodied phenomenon.Integrating perspectives from philosophy, ...
Chinese–English Interpreting and Intercultural Communication
1st Edition
By Jim Hlavac, Zhichang Xu
September 30, 2021
Chinese and English are the world’s largest languages, and the number of interpreter-mediated interactions involving Chinese and English speakers has increased exponentially over the last 30 years. This book presents and describes examples of Chinese–English interpreting across a large number of ...
Translation and Hegel's Philosophy: A Transformative, Socio-narrative Approach to A.V. Miller’s Cold-War Retranslations
1st Edition
By David Charlston
September 30, 2021
This volume engages with translations of philosophy as complex, socially structured narratives bound by emotional, political and philosophical connections, exploring these dynamics at work in A.V. Miller’s Hegel translations and retranslations published between 1969 and 1986. The book ...