"Image, Music, Text…?" Translating Multimodalities Journal of Specialised Translation, Issue n°20, January 2013 Edited by Margaret Clarke, Caterina Jeffcote and Carol O'Sullivan   JoSTrans is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal bringing non-literarytranslation issues to the fore. Published bi-annually, it includes articles,reviews and streamed interviews by translation scholars and professionals.The Journal of Specialised Translation will publish a special issue ontranslation and multimodality in 2013. Translation is usually thought of as being about the printed word, but in today's multimodal environment translators must take account of other signifying elements too. Words may interact with still and moving images, diagrams, music, typography or page…

Guest edited by Rosa Agost, Elena Di Giovanni, Pilar Orero   Multidisciplinarity is without any doubt a reality, although not always acknowledged. It has increasingly come to the fore in the last five or six years in Translation Studies, whereas it has not yet been developed within the specific field of Audiovisual Translation Studies. However, as emerges from some recent publications in the field (Remael and Neves 2007, Di Giovanni, 2008), new approaches to the description and analysis of audiovisual translation processes and products call for a socio-cultural turn in Audiovisual Translation Studies.

A Case Study of the Use of Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Interpreting Students Pages: 1-32 Author: Jemina Napier This article details the findings of a systemic functional linguistic case study of university classroom talk, and in particular an evaluation of the storytelling that occurs in classroom talk and its functioning as a pedagogical tool with interpreting students. The data consists of two hours of naturalistic classroom talk that occurred with sign language interpreting students discussing the topic of interpreting ethics. The 'chunks' of the text comprised of storytelling were identified, and the stories were classified into genres.…

Improving Interpreting Performance through Theatrical Training Pages: 151-171 Authors: Jinhyun Cho and Peter Roger Aspiring interpreting professionals need to possess skills which allow them to think quickly in order to deal with unexpected situations that will inevitably arise in the course of interpreting assignments. The complex and inherently unpredictable nature of interpreting can be a major source of anxiety for student interpreters, particularly when they are called upon to perform in a language in which their proficiency and confidence levels are limited. Specific techniques for managing this anxiety, however, are often lacking in interpreter training programmes. This study examines the…