Translation, Interpreting and Transfer – serie

Journalism and unique translation practices by Japanese media todayInternational news stories provided to the public basically rely on translation. Most of this translation is done not by translators, but by journalists with practically no training in translation. What happens when the norms of journalism and those of translation clash? In this book, the author, a trained conference interpreter and former international journalist, investigates translator decisions in the practice of Japanese news translation. Her extensive analysis of texts from six major Japanese newspapers and interviews with Japanese “journalators” focuses on direct quotations, where accuracy is a journalistic priority but can generate loss of communication impact if implemented rigidly. She argues that many shifts from accuracy can be explained as risk management strategies. When News Travels East provides invaluable insight from an insider about news translation in Japan and beyond and paves the way for further research in the field.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Groundbreaking study connecting textual and contextual approaches For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated. What contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.Contributors: Valérie Alfvén (Stockholm University), Delia Guijarro Arribas (EHESS), Michał Borodo (Kazimierz Wielki University), Anna Kérchy (University of Szeged), Gillian Lathey (University of Roehampton), Charlotte Lindgren (Dalarna University), Jack McMartin (KU Leuven), Lia A. Miranda de Lima (University of Brasília), Marija Zlatnar Moe (University of Ljubljana), Emer O’Sullivan (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Germana H. Pereira (University of Brasília), Anna Olga Prudente De Oliveira (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Annalisa Sezzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv University), Marija Todorova (Hong Kong Polythechnic University), Jan Van Coillie (KU Leuven), Sara Van Meerbergen (University of Stockholm), Li Xueyi (independent scholar), Tanja Žigon (University of Ljubljana)Winner IRSCL Edited Book Award 2021This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation have been at the core of translation studies so far. Yet Personality Matters ventures into the previously uncharted territories by bringing the translator's inherent psychological and cognitive features into the limelight. Combining psychology and translation studies, this monograph looks into the role of the translator's psychological features in self-revision, the main decision-making activity in translation. This groundbreaking study succeeds in laying bare certain traits in the translator's personality that distinguish him or her from non-translators, and shows that the translator's personality matters in the process of translation, making it an individual journey of trial and error for each translator. The book is of particular topical importance within the burgeoning field of translation studies, for while translation may be ubiquitous in the modern globalised world, the person behind it very often remains unnoticed.

Innovative and interdisciplinary approach to transferThe concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a concept and an analytical tool to account for complex cultural dynamics. The contributions in this book adopt various research angles (literary studies, imagology, translation studies, translator studies, periodical studies, postcolonialism) to study an array of entangled transfer processes that apply to different objects and aspects, ranging from literary texts, legal texts, news, images and identities to ideologies, power asymmetries, titles and heterolingualisms. By embracing a process-oriented way of thinking, all these contributions aim to open the ‘black box’ of transfer in the widest sense.Contributors: Susan Bassnett (University of Glasgow / University of Warwick), Pieter Boulogne (KU Leuven), Andrew Chesterman (University of Helsinki), Yves Chevrel (Sorbonne University / University Ştefan cel Mare), Dirk Delabastita (University of Namur), Yves Gambier (University of Turku), Maud Gonne (University of Namur / UCLouvain), Ramunė Kasperavičienė (Kaunas University of Technology), Dainora Maumevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology), Reine Meylaerts (KU Leuven / University of Bloemfontein), Jean-Marc Moura (University of Paris Nanterre), Isabelle Nières-Chevrel (Rennes 2 University), Christina Schäffner (Aston University), Michael Schreiber (University of Mainz), Luc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu / Stellenbosch University)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Translating and interpreting are unpredictable social practices framed by historical, ethical, and political constraints. Using the concepts of situatedness and performativity as anchors, the authors examine translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional training. As such, the chapters focus on enacted events and conditioned practices by exploring production processes and the social, historical, and cultural conditions of the field. These outlooks shift our attention to social and institutionalized acts of translating and interpreting, considering also the materiality of bodies, artefacts, and technologies involved in these scenes.Contributors: Raquel Pacheco Aguilar (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz), Ehsan Alipour (Allameh Tabataba'i University), Audrey Canales (Universite de Montreal), Paola Gentile (University of Trieste), Marie-France Guenette (Universite Laval), Ellen Lambrechts (KU Leuven), Yuan Ping (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Marike van der Watt (KU Leuven), Wenqian Zhang (University of Leeds)

This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in both legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from all over the world, it allows for a compelling comparison of attitudes towards translation in varying contexts. It highlights the virtues of integrating different types of expertise in the study of translation policy: theoretical and applied, historical and modern, legal, institutional, and political. It effectively illustrates how a multidisciplinary perspective furthers our understanding of translation policies and unveils their intrinsic link with issues such as multilingualism, linguistic justice, minority rights, and citizenship. In this way, each contribution sheds new light on the role of translation in the everyday interaction between governments and multilingual populations.Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project MuseContributors: Jonathan Bernaerts (KU Leuven), Albert Branchadell (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Paolo Canavese (University of Geneva), Flavia De Camillis (University of Bologna), Chantal Gagnon (University of Montreal), Shuang Li (KU Leuven), Willem Possemiers (KU Leuven), Marketa Stefkova (Comenius University Bratislava), Helena Tuzinska (Comenius University Bratislava), Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde (Ghent University), Katarzyna Wasilewska (University of Warsaw)

The ever-shifting terrain of Translation StudiesSince the inception of Translation Studies in the 1970s, its researchers have held regular metareflections. Largely based on the assessment of translation and interpreting as two distinct but related modes of language mediation, each with its own research culture, these intradisciplinary debates have sought to take stock of the state of research within an ever-expanding discipline in search of (institutional) identity and autonomy. Recharting Territories proposes a more widespread and systematic intradisciplinary approach to researching translational phenomena, one which can be applied at various analytical levels – theoretical, conceptual, methodological, pragmatic – and emphasize both similarities and differences between subdisciplines. Such an approach, rather than consolidating a territorial attitude on the part of scholars, aims to raise awareness of the ever-shifting terrain on which Translation Studies stands.Contributors: Álvaro Marín García (University of Valladolid), Ceyda Elgül (Boğaziçi University), Fruzsina Kovács (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Gisele Dionísio da Silva (NOVA University of Lisbon), Karen Bennett (NOVA University of Lisbon), Maura Radicioni (University of Geneva), Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Michaela Albl-Mikasa (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Rita Menezes (University of Lisbon), Roy Youdale (University of Bristol)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

The value of nuanced approaches to the concept of translator invisibilityThe question of whether to disclose that a text is a translation and thereby give visibility to the translator has dominated discussions on translation throughout history. Despite becoming one of the most ubiquitous terms in translation studies, however, the concept of translator (in)visibility is often criticized for being vague, overly adaptable, and grounded in literary contexts. This interdisciplinary volume therefore draws on concepts from fields such as sociology, the digital humanities, and interpreting studies to develop and operationalize theoretical understandings of translator visibility beyond these existing criticisms and limitations. Through empirical case studies spanning areas including social media research, reception studies, institutional translation, and literary translation, this volume demonstrates the value of understanding the visibilities of translators and translation in the plural and adds much-needed nuance to one of translation studies’ most pervasive, polarizing, and imprecise concepts.Contributors: Klaus Kaindl (University of Vienna), Renée Desjardins (Université de Saint-Boniface), Helle V. Dam (Aarhus University), Minna Ruokonen (University of Eastern Finland), Deborah Giustini (Hamad Bin Khalifa University / KU Leuven), Motoko Akashi (Trinity College Dublin), Peter J. Freeth (London Metropolitan University), Seyhan Bozkurt Jobanputra (Yeditepe University), Gys-Walt van Egdom (Utrecht University), Haidee Kotze (Utrecht University), Pardaad Chamsaz (British Library), Rachel Foss (British Library), Will René (National Poetry Library), Esa Penttilä (University of Eastern Finland), Juha Lång (University of Eastern Finland), Juho Suokas (University of Eastern Finland), Erja Vottonen (University of Eastern Finland), and Helka Riionheimo (University of Eastern Finland).This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)."Introduction" by Peter J. Freeth is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY NC ND 4.0 International license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Introduction © 2024 by P.J. Freeth.Listen to an interview with Peter J. Freeth and Rafael Treviño at New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-the-translators-invisibility

Significant contribution to the retranslation studies of religious texts.Despite the lively scholarly discourse on retranslation and its manifest value for uncovering dynamics of cultural change, interpretation, and reception, the retranslation of religious texts has received only fragmented attention in recent years. By spanning both historical and current aspects, and by treating the Bible and the Qur’an together, this book breaks new ground and paves the way for future research on the myriad discursive and religious aspects of retranslation.This carefully curated collection of articles compellingly argues that the retranslation of canonical religious texts is a multi-faceted phenomenon. With cases ranging in time from the early Reformation to the present, and traversing linguistic contexts from Russia to Sweden, Slovenia to Saudi Arabia, the essays capture diverse dimensions of retranslation work. The collection demonstrates that retranslations of such texts manifest in different forms, depending on the religious, political and societal circumstances, the targeted audiences, and the status of existing translations. Their reception too may vary greatly, depending on those same circumstances. Authored by specialists in the different fields of retranslation of the Bible and the Qur’an, each contribution illustrates this complexity and offers a fresh perspective and insight that help lay the groundwork for future research in this area of study.