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Translation Studies in Africa

Edited by Judith Inggs and Libby Meintjes

IATIS Yearbook 2008

Judith Inggs and Libby Meintjes (eds) (2009) Translation Studies in Africa. London/New York: Continuum.

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-8470-6177-5

ISBN (paperback): 978-1-8471-4589-5

Africa is a huge continent with multicultural nations, where translation and interpretation are everyday occurrences. Translation studies has flourished in Africa in the last decade, with countries often having several official languages.

The primary objective of this volume is to bring together research articles on translation and interpreting studies in Africa, written mainly, but not exclusively, by researchers living and working in the region. The focus is on the translation of literature and the media, and on the uses of interpreting. It provides a clear idea of the state and direction of research, and highlights research that is not commonly disseminated in North Africa and Europe. This book is an essential text for students and researchers working in translation studies, African studies and in African linguistics.

Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates

Edited by John Kearns

IATIS Yearbook 2007

John Kearns (ed.) (2008) Translator and Interpreter Training; Issues, Methods and Debates. London/New York: Continuum.

ISBN (hardback): 0826498051

ISBN (paperback): 082649806X

As a research area, education in the fields of translation and interpreting has received growing attention in recent years, with the increasing professionalization of the language-mediation sector demanding ever more highly trained employees with broader repertoires. This trend is evidenced in the present collection, which addresses issues in pedagogy in a variety of translation and interpreting domains. A global range of contributors discuss teaching, evaluation, professionalization and competence as they apply to an array of educational and linguistic situations. Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates presents an in-depth consideration of the issues involved in this area of translation and interpreting studies, and will be of interest to all students and academics working and researching in the field.

Translation as Intervention

Edited by Jeremy Munday

IATIS Yearbook 2006

Jeremy Munday (ed.) (2007) Translation as Intervention. London/New York: Continuum.

ISBN (hardback): 978–08264–9519–8

ISBN (paperback): 978–08264–9520–4

This book examines the role of translation as a politically and socially active phenomenon which moulds and potentially alters the outcome of many types of communicative event. The contributors examine the effect of translation and intervention in a range of situations and case studies including the European Union, marginalized literature in India, Arabic historical texts and interpretation in the South African courtroom. The result is a comprehensive examination of this key question in translation studies: to what extent and in which ways does the translator, and those involved in the translation process, intervene in the discourse he or she translates? Translation as Intervention is a fascinating collection of essays discussing this most central of topics in translation studies. It will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching in this area.

Translation and the Construction of Identity

Edited by Juliane House, M. Rosario Martín Ruano and Nicole Baumgarten

IATIS Yearbook 2005

Juliane House, M. Rosario Martín Ruano and Nicole Baumgarten (2005) Translation and the Construction of Identity. Seoul: IATIS.

ISBN (paperback):  978-89-957454-0-1

The IATIS Yearbook 2005, Translation and the Construction of Identity, is one of the two types of volumes based on papers presented at the IATIS Inaugural Conference, held in Seoul in August 2004. It consists of a thematically coherent collection of papers on the theme of ‘Identity’ edited by Professor Juliane House (Hamburg), Dr Rosario Martín Ruano (Salamanca) and Dr Nicole Baumgarten (Hamburg).