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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Phrae Chittiphalangsri, Sue-Ann Harding, Dorothea Martens

[Editorial text]

ARTICLES

Third Person Pronouns in Indigenous Chinese Texts and Translated Chinese Texts: the westernization of modern written Chinese

Clara Chan Ho-yan
City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG

Prophets and Pandemonium: creativity in the translating self

Daryl R. Hague
Brigham Young University, USA

Translational Resonance, Authenticity and Authority in the Bible and the Quran: translation and religious change

Catherine Moir
University of Sheffield, UK

Towards a Dynamic Role Model of Liaison Interpreters: self-descriptions of practitioners in Estonia

Kristina Mullamaa
University of Tartu, Estonia

Translating Mimetics in Japanese: a cognitive approach

Kiyoko Toratani
York University, Toronto, Canada

THESES ABSTRACTS

(This section contains abstracts of recently submitted PhD theses.)

Translation in the Service of Advocacy: narrating Palestine and Palestinian women in translations by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)

Souhad S. H. Al Sharif, University of Manchester, UK

[Abstract]

Translation as Re-Narration in Italian-Canadian Writing: codeswitching, focalisation, voice and plot in Nino Ricci’s trilogy and its Italian translation

Michela Baldo, University of Manchester, UK

[Abstract]

Babels, the Social Forum and the Conference Interpreting Community: overlapping and competing narratives on activism and interpreting in the era of globalisation

Julie Boéri

[Abstract]

Information Economics, the Translation Profession and Translator Certification

Andy Lung Jan Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

[Abstract]

Translation, Orientalism and Virtuality: English and French translations of the Bhagavad Gita and Sakuntala 1784-1884

Phrae Chittiphalangsri, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

[Abstract]

Translators as Social Agents: translated fantasy books in Taiwan

Yu-Ling Chung, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

[Abstract]

Clause-Level Foregrounding in the Translation of the Qur’an into English: patterns and motivations

Ahmed Abdelmoneim Saleh Elimam, University of St Andrews, UK

[Abstract]

News as Narrative: reporting and translating the 2004 Beslan hostage disaster

Sue-Ann Harding, University of Manchester, UK

[Abstract]

The Efficacy of Using State-of-the-art Translation Resources in Translating into a Non-mother Tongue

Nataša Hirci, Ljubljana University, Slovenia

[Abstract]

Emily Dickinson and China

Kang Yanbin

[Abstract]

A Systemic Approach to Translating Style: a comparative study of four Chinese translations of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

Elaine Y. L. Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

[Abstract]

The Translator’s Habitus and Shifts: a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury, Go Down Moses and Absalom! Absalom!

Maryam Taghavi

[Abstract]

A Training Program for Securing Professional Employment for Translation Postgraduates

Olga Torres Hostench, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

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