'Conference Interpreting: What do we know and how?' is the title of a round-table conference (Turku 1994) organised to assess the state of the art in conference interpreting research. The result is collected in this volume with fully coordinated reports on the round tables. The book presents an exciting coverage of the field, touching on methodology, communication, discourse, culture, neurolinguistic and cognitive aspects, quality assessment, training and developing skills.

Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text offers an innovative, wide-ranging exploration of translation within the same language, bringing together leading international scholars from diverse linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds. Spanning theoretical reflections, empirical studies, and historical analyses, the volume addresses the rich spectrum of intralingual practices, from plain language and accessibility adaptations to diachronic rewritings of historical texts. The first section investigates various aspects of the “Intralingual Sphere” and its connections to other modes of translation. The second part explores the rapidly developing field of accessibility and simplification, including Easy Language, plain language, and graded readers. The book concludes with in-depth studies of diachronic translation across different historical layers of the French, Italian and Latin languages. Originating in an international workshop, these contributions highlight intralingual translation as a multi-faceted and socially situated activity, offering new insights into its theoretical boundaries, practical challenges, and cultural significance.

The source text is an unescapable part of any translation or translation process. Without source text, no translation. Yet it is only recently that scholars in the field of translation studies have begun exploring, theorizing, and conceptualizing the source text in a more systematic fashion. The present volume builds on and expands this work, exposing how source texts are never merely given but always constructed by translators and used for various purposes. The seven case studies, by researchers working in translation studies or at the intersection of translation studies and other disciplines, explore the role and function of the source text in journalistic translation, pseudotranslation, indirect translation, children’s literature, and biblical translation. The authors ask questions such as: How do translators turn specific texts into source texts? How do translators conceptualize their originals? How do source texts of the ‘same’ work change over time?

This book aims at establishing digital translation history as a specific field within the broader discipline of translation studies, and at the intersection of translation history and digital humanities. The book responds to the urgent need to encourage source-based and empirical research that is able to identify, at large scale, translations and translators in the global cultural ecosystem over time, as well as to analyze translated texts with digital methodologies and propose multiple tools and new ways to process and read them. In this respect, the book is structured in four sections with multiple case studies dealing with translation flows, agents of translation, textual analysis of translations, and repositories and infrastructures. The book is also an attempt to theorize and institutionalize what previously has been called “big translation history” (Roig-Sanz and Fólica 2021) and apply digital tools to identify patterns of cultural phenomena or word use, as well as to build networks of relationships and visualize spatial information (Vogeler and Hofeneder 2023).

In the 1980s, Daniel Gile thought of the potential benefit for translation and interpreting students of simple conceptual building blocks that could help them make sense of their classroom experience and of their instructors’ advice, especially as regards recurring challenges. The first edition of Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training (1995) was the result of observation, introspection, critical engagement with the literature and small-scale original research. An extended, revised edition followed in 2009. In this third edition, analyses have been fine-tuned; more space has been given to signed language interpreting, which has much to teach to spoken language translators and interpreters; concepts and models, some of them new, some of them related to recent technology, are discussed in more depth, and the links between them and advances in interpreting studies and in related disciplines are clarified. A substantially updated edition of one of the most widely read and cited books in Translation and Interpreting Studies.

'Conference Interpreting: What do we know and how?' is the title of a round-table conference (Turku 1994) organised to assess the state of the art in conference interpreting research. The result is collected in this volume with fully coordinated reports on the round tables. The book presents an exciting coverage of the field, touching on methodology, communication, discourse, culture, neurolinguistic and cognitive aspects, quality assessment, training and developing skills.

Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text offers an innovative, wide-ranging exploration of translation within the same language, bringing together leading international scholars from diverse linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds. Spanning theoretical reflections, empirical studies, and historical analyses, the volume addresses the rich spectrum of intralingual practices, from plain language and accessibility adaptations to diachronic rewritings of historical texts. The first section investigates various aspects of the “Intralingual Sphere” and its connections to other modes of translation. The second part explores the rapidly developing field of accessibility and simplification, including Easy Language, plain language, and graded readers. The book concludes with in-depth studies of diachronic translation across different historical layers of the French, Italian and Latin languages. Originating in an international workshop, these contributions highlight intralingual translation as a multi-faceted and socially situated activity, offering new insights into its theoretical boundaries, practical challenges, and cultural significance.

The source text is an unescapable part of any translation or translation process. Without source text, no translation. Yet it is only recently that scholars in the field of translation studies have begun exploring, theorizing, and conceptualizing the source text in a more systematic fashion. The present volume builds on and expands this work, exposing how source texts are never merely given but always constructed by translators and used for various purposes. The seven case studies, by researchers working in translation studies or at the intersection of translation studies and other disciplines, explore the role and function of the source text in journalistic translation, pseudotranslation, indirect translation, children’s literature, and biblical translation. The authors ask questions such as: How do translators turn specific texts into source texts? How do translators conceptualize their originals? How do source texts of the ‘same’ work change over time?

This book aims at establishing digital translation history as a specific field within the broader discipline of translation studies, and at the intersection of translation history and digital humanities. The book responds to the urgent need to encourage source-based and empirical research that is able to identify, at large scale, translations and translators in the global cultural ecosystem over time, as well as to analyze translated texts with digital methodologies and propose multiple tools and new ways to process and read them. In this respect, the book is structured in four sections with multiple case studies dealing with translation flows, agents of translation, textual analysis of translations, and repositories and infrastructures. The book is also an attempt to theorize and institutionalize what previously has been called “big translation history” (Roig-Sanz and Fólica 2021) and apply digital tools to identify patterns of cultural phenomena or word use, as well as to build networks of relationships and visualize spatial information (Vogeler and Hofeneder 2023).

In the 1980s, Daniel Gile thought of the potential benefit for translation and interpreting students of simple conceptual building blocks that could help them make sense of their classroom experience and of their instructors’ advice, especially as regards recurring challenges. The first edition of Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training (1995) was the result of observation, introspection, critical engagement with the literature and small-scale original research. An extended, revised edition followed in 2009. In this third edition, analyses have been fine-tuned; more space has been given to signed language interpreting, which has much to teach to spoken language translators and interpreters; concepts and models, some of them new, some of them related to recent technology, are discussed in more depth, and the links between them and advances in interpreting studies and in related disciplines are clarified. A substantially updated edition of one of the most widely read and cited books in Translation and Interpreting Studies.