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Guest editors: Anna Marzà & Joaquim Dolz Societies nowadays are multilingual, that is, composed of groups speaking different languages. From a social point of view, multilingualism is conceived as the set of language practices and varieties, with diverse economic and symbolic status, that coexist in a social and cultural context. Population movements, especially internal and international migration and tourism have amplified the coexistence of languages within the same territory. Hence multilingualism can be considered as a universal phenomenon that develops in various ways according to the situations, the status and the representations about the languages that coexist, and the language policies of the countries and institutions. In this context, the terms bilingual or plurilingual are used to describe individuals who know and practice more than one language, as well as educational systems that aim at the simultaneous development of several languages or a holistic treatment of the languages present in schools (Coste, Moore & Zarate [1997] 2009; Béacco & Byram 2007). The distribution of linguistic resources both from a social point of view and in educational systems is not always fair (Leglisse 2017). This is manifested most notably in the so-called Global South, decolonized countries where people's epistemic rights are racially devalued (Mignolo 2009). Glottophobia and discrimination are more general phenomena and are present in various situations of linguistic minorisation around the world (Blanchet 2005; 2016; Monzó-Nebot & Jiménez-Salcedo 2017) and prompt an ethical and legal reflection on linguistic uses, in particular on their application in the educational field. It is for this purpose that we propose a thematic issue that revolves simultaneously around the following three areas: the linguistic rights of linguistic minorities, their implementation in educational systems, the pedagogical and didactic innovations that characterize them. Language rights and especially the rights of linguistic minorities have become an object of study (de Varennes 1996; Henrard 2000; Patrick & Freeland 2004; May (2001) 2012). Likewise, they have received attention from international institutions (Ramón i Mimó 1997), as in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (Council of Europe 1992). The report presented by the UN special rapporteur on minority issues (Izsák-Ndiaye 2012) mentions nine concerns regarding the rights of linguistic minorities, three of which seem particularly relevant for this thematic issue: first, the recognition of minority languages and linguistic rights; second, the use of languages in public life; and finally, the position that languages occupy in education. Educational systems. Faced with the challenge of unequal multilingualism, countries respond with language policies that can be very varied within the educational field. This special issue focuses on the proposals for linguistic organization within educational systems in different contexts. Comparative analyses on the application of the linguistic rights of minorities related to the specific sociolinguistic contexts are particularly relevant. Comparison allows different solutions to emerge as linked to particular situations, revealing the necessary adaptations to the phenomenon of minorisation and their relevance and effectiveness to specific contexts. We are specifically interested in bringing together research that analyses the impacts of the implementation of educational policies catering for the linguistic rights of minorities (Milian i Massana 1992; Kontra et al. 1999; Flors-Mas & Manterola 2021). Practical experiences promoting minority languages in education present great diversity (Rispail 2017): immersion programs (Artigal 1997; Björklund, Mård-Miettinen & Savijärvi 2017), the incorporation of minority and heritage languages in the classrooms (Maynard, Armand & Brissaud 2020; Sales, Marzà i Ibàñez & Torralba 2023; Prasad & Bettney Heidt 2023), intercomprehension (Bonvino 2015; Carrasco Perea & de Carlo 2019), or mother tongue-based multilingual education (Tupas 2015), among others. Nowadays there is a didactic engineering trend towards the integrated treatment of languages focusing on minority languages, either present in the territories or brought by migration (Perregaux et al. 2003; Pascual 2006; Dolz & Idiazabal 2013; García Azkoaga & Idiazabal 2015; Candelier 2016). The analysis of educational experiences considers the particular teaching strategies, the type of interactions between languages and the dilemmas that occur in educational practices (de Pietro 2004; 2021). Didactic devices can delve into language attitudes and the learning of these languages to limit their minorisation or even to avoid their assimilation or disappearance (Cummins 2000; Candelier 2003; 2008). Based on the three thematic areas described above, the following questions may guide the preparation of contributions for this special issue: What are the fundamental language rights related to education? How has the history of language rights influenced multilingual education? What linguistic minorisation and discrimination phenomena can be found in the different sociolinguistic contexts? How do contexts (population movements, historical events, current legislation) affect children's language rights? How are linguistic rights applied in educational systems? How do educational systems, educational policies, and curriculum designs in different countries or contexts deal with the language rights of minorities? How are language policies in education assessed? What is the impact of educational measures on linguistic rights? What are the current experiences and dilemmas of educational practices based on language rights? What educational innovations foster the development of positive BAK (beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge) systems about language justice at school? What are the characteristics of the didactic engineering devices that favour the treatment of minority languages? How does the work on language rights impact language learning? Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024 For more information, click here.

This multi- and interdisciplinary conference explores cinematic adaptation as atransnational practice between the area formerly known as Mitteleuropa and the US over the last century from different angles and perspectives, with particular emphasis on German-American relations. The conference will examine Hollywood films by expatriate directors, German films based on American literary works, and American films based on Germanliterary works, including remakes and international co-productions from the early twentiethto the twenty-first century. Particular attention will be given to émigré and exiled directors,stars, and crews of the Pre- and Post-World-War years, to the Junger/Neuer Deutscher Filmof the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, but also to contemporary co-productions and internationalblockbusters. We welcome proposals addressing the manifold forms that adaptation can takein order to reflect on its discursive effects on both sides of the Atlantic. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:- The “literary canon” of US-Mitteleuropean cinematic adaptation (Eric MariaRemarque, Patricia Highsmith, Vera Caspary, James L. Cain, etc.)- Adaptation and expatriate directors (Michael Curtiz, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch,Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmark, Douglas Sirk, Erich von Stroheim, Josef vonSternberg, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, etc.)- Adaptation and the Junger/Neuer Deutscher Film (Schlöndorff, Fassbinder,Wenders, etc.)- Audiovisual translation as adaptation- Post-adaptation effects: paratexts (book packaging: retitling, book covers, etc.)and reception (book reviews, etc.)- The mediating role of authors/scriptwriters/producers/actors in the adaptationprocess- Adaptation and film genres- Adaptation and film remakes- Adaptation and film scores- Adaptation and place: the double careers of expatriate/international stars- International co-productions (Wes Anderson, Wolfgang Petersen, Tom Tykwer,etc.) Deadline for submissions: 25 February 2024 For more information, click here.

Edited by Gianluca Pontrandolfo, University of Trieste and Carla Quinci, University of Padua Many myths and deep concerns surround neural machine translation (NMT) and the role specialised translators play in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). The scary idea of ‘human parity’, i.e. the belief that NMT can achieve human quality, sparks off heated debates about the implications of the recent outstanding technological advancement for the translation profession. The alleged threats posed by the results achieved by AI in combination with the gaps in the academic literature about the functioning of (N)MT and its influence on the translation process and product have caused widespread scepticism and mistrust, when not an a priori rejection of NMT. Scholars worldwide have attempted to debunk these myths by studying the actual advantages and disadvantages of using automation. For instance, do Carmo (2023) recently proposed the term “artificial translation” – rather than “machine translation” – to stress that MT does not perform a complete translation process, which would take into account not just the meaning of the source and the target sentences but also extratextual elements e.g. the voice of the author, the intended readers, the purpose of the target texts, which are crucial in any (legal) translation brief (Scott 2019: 81-102). These concerns are particularly serious in the legal field, where the legal and ethical risks (Canfora & Ottmann 2020, Kenny, Moorkens & do Carmo 2020, Moorkens 2022) related to privacy and confidentiality, together with low risk tolerance and liability, contribute to that feeling of scepticism and mistrust. Thus, legal translation has generally been considered unsuitable for automation (Sánchez-Gijón & Kenny 2022, 85-86), especially due to its inherent challenges. While other specialised fields tend towards conceptual universality and univocity, legal notions and procedures are largely system-bound and historically rooted, which naturally reflects on individual legal languages and culture-bound legal references (cf. Biel 2022). This results in incongruities and asymmetries, which represent the typical challenges faced by legal translators (see Biel 2014, Pontrandolfo 2019). Another distinctive feature of this specialisation is the high variability of the texts and legal conditions that determine the role of translation itself in each communicative situation, i.e. its communicative priorities between or within legal systems, according to the conventions of specific branches of law and legal genres at the national and international levels (Cao 2007, Biel 2014, Biel et al. 2019, Prieto Ramos 2022). Legal translation involves negotiating not only between legal languages/discourses but also – and most importantly – between legal systems and legal genres (see Scott 2019: 31-55). However, the evolution of AI and MT is changing the legal professional landscape, where the ‘triangle of MT’ (quality, price and speed) still plays a pivotal role. Legal translation service providers as well as law firms are increasingly betting on AI and NMT worldwide. Thanks to the growing quality of MT outputs and the development of custom engines (Martínez Domínguez et al. 2020), NMT and machine translation post-editing (MTPE) are now also used in the legal sector. The most recent version of the EMT Competence Framework “acknowledges that [it] represents a growing part of translation workflows, and that MT literacy and awareness of the possibilities and limitations of MT is an integral part of professional translation competence” (EMT Expert Group 2022, 7). Then, the question is not so much if machine translation and post-editing (PE) should be implemented in legal translator training but when, and how they are and will be used by professional translators (Quinci, forthcoming; Quinci & Pontrandolfo 2023). Against this background, this Special Issue aims at mapping the new opportunities and risks related to fast technological advancement and the rapidly changing landscape of legal translation in training and professional settings by exploring a wide array of issues including, but not limited to, the following: Implications of translation modality (human translation, post-editing, etc.) on the translation process Quality evaluation of AI/MT/MTPE outputs in the legal field Effects of MT, MTPE and/or AI on the translation product from end-users’ perspective MT/AI performance across legal genres and languages Implementation and implications of AI and MT in legal translator training and/or the professional practice Impact of AI/MT/MTPE on legal translators’ creativity Training of MT engines for legal translation purposes Legal Machine Translationese and Post-editese Ethics & legal MT/AI Potential, drawbacks, development, applications and assessment of Large Language Models in legal translation Gender bias in legal MT/AI Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2024 For more information, click here.

Book translation involves border crossings of many kinds: between languages, cultures, geographies, historical periods, genres, etc. In this conference we want to focus on how literature crosses language borders within states, foregrounding in particular the actors, institutions and dynamics that shape translation in multilingual states. Large-scale histories of (literary) translation are most often written in and about countries whose territorial borders equal language borders (e.g. Frank & Turk 2004; Schögler 2023; Sapiro 2008; Schoenaers 2021). But monolingual states are rather the exception than the rule in the international system, and many officially monolingual states sustain multilingual literary cultures, whether via officially recognized regional and local languages, or non-recognized variants. How can the state of the art of translation research be enriched by singling out “those situations in which nation state and linguistic unity do not overlap” (Leperlier 2022: 130; Leperlier 2021)? Within any given state, books are indeed often produced in ‘plurilingual spaces’ and in different (variants of) languages (Leperlier 2021). Do these books reach the citizens of the other linguistic community(ies) within that state, and if so, how? How is multilingual book production organised in a single-state context and what are its implications for nation-building and transnational relations? These questions can be addressed by drawing inspiration from recent work on multilingual spaces and national (literary) translation histories (e.g. Riikonen e.a. 2007; Kahn 2017), literary and cultural historiography (e.g. Chapman 2003; Schreiber 2016; Vanacker & Verschaffel 2022), cultural transfer and reception studies (e.g. D’hulst e.a. 2014; D’hulst & Koskinen 2021), sociology of translation (e.g. Sapiro 2008, Heilbron 2010), cultural policy and translation policy research (e.g. Meylaerts 2011 & 2018, Schreiber & D’hulst 2017, Maumevi?ien? e.a. 2019, Paquette 2019, McMartin 2019, Schögler 2023), transcultural studies (Bachmann-Medick 2019), memory studies (Erll 2011, Deane-Cox & Spiessens 2022) and big translation history (Roig-Sanz & Folica 2021). Call for papers In this conference, we encourage contributors to explore how books circulate through translation in multilingual states. We seek original conference papers that address the relationship between a state’s multilingualism and its intra-state translation flows. In relation to this central question, a number of sub-questions can be raised, including but not limited to: What are the flows of book translation in a multilingual state (direction, evolution)? How can we collect and map data on intra-state translation flows? What databases and sources are available for this purpose and what are their advantages and disadvantages? What role do branding and positioning play in translation flows in multilingual states, particularly as it relates to different genres, themes, authors and mediators? Do hierarchies or other kinds of relationships between languages play a role in intra-state book translation flows? What is the relationship between book translation in a multilingual state and language proficiency? What is the relationship between book translation and (cultural) policy in multilingual states? Which institutions play a role and to what political ends? What is the role of third actors (such as other regions, linguistic or cultural communities, or states) in shaping the translation flows of a multilingual state? Can translation flows be isolated in the context of a single state or should a transnational context be taken into account? What is the relationship between book translation and identity formation or cultural memory creation in multilingual states? Does it make sense to speak of national literatures in multilingual states? What are the usefulness and limits of a ‘national bibliography’ and national ‘legal deposit’? Do translated books that emerge in multilingual states or circulate via intra-state translation flows exhibit specific paratextual features? What kinds of intra-state translation flows typify the (literary) cultures of multilingual states besides book translations? Do more translations take place outside the medium of the book, e.g. in theatre, magazines, websites,…? Proposals (ca. 300 words) for 20-minute conference papers and a biographical note should be sent to beltrans@kbr.be by 1 April 2024. We encourage submissions from researchers around the world and in all career stages. Proposals and papers should be written in English. The committee will announce its decisions by 2 May 2024. Selected contributions will be considered for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume. Accepted papers and presentations will be made openly available with a DOI identifier to promote Open Science. For more information, click here.

Dear Esteemed Authors and Editors, I hope this message finds you well. We are thrilled to share some exciting news regarding TRANS-KATA journal's recent accreditation by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, attaining outstanding results. This achievement is a testament to the hard work, dedication, and invaluable contributions of each one of you. As we celebrate this milestone, we are excited to announce the upcoming release of Volume 4, Issue 2, scheduled for May 2024. We invite you to submit your latest research papers and manuscripts to be considered for publication in this upcoming issue. Your expertise and unique perspectives are crucial in maintaining the high standards of TRANS-KATA . Submission Deadline: 2 February 2024 To submit your papers or inquire about the submission process, please visit our online submission portal [insert link] or contact our editorial team at https://ejournal.transbahasa.co.id/index.php/jllce/about/submissions Kindly circulate this Call for Papers to your colleagues and students who may be interested in submitting their research.   Once again, thank you for your unwavering support and commitment to TRANS-KATA. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions for the upcoming issue and continuing our journey of scholarly excellence together.  For more information, click here.

Guest Editor: Monika Zabrocka, Jagiellonian University in Krakow ANGLICA: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES is an open-access, annual, peer-reviewed journal in literary, cultural, and linguistic studies published both in print and online under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, DOAJ, CEEOL, MLA, BazHum, EBSCO, MIAR, Index Copernicus, ERIHPLUS, Sherpa Romeo, and included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers. The editors encourage scholars from across the academy to explore and provide their unique insight within the suggested thematic focus of Navigating New Frontiers: New Paradigms in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility.  Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2024 For more information, click here.

Co-Editors of the issue: Prof. Sherry Simon, PhD Dr. Krzysztof Majer With this volume, we aim to stimulate an interdisciplinary discussion of translation—its nature, processes, and capacities—in the context of urban space and various attendant modes of mobility. As Siri Nergaard reminds us, translation always implies a spatial dimension: inevitably “conditioned by space,” it can also “promote or provoke changes in the perception and the use of spaces and places” (9). This necessitates a different conceptualization of space as “a site where production and interpretation are intermingled, where translations occur and where identity is reinterpreted” (Simon, “Introduction” 11). We are interested not only in how cultural transfer is enabled and negotiated, but also in actions that may limit or impede transmissibility. After all, the central figure invoked in Sherry Simon’s Cities in Translation is that of Hermes: “the god of both separation and connection [who] protects boundaries but through his magical powers also provides safe passage for travellers” (xv–xvii). This highly unstable entity—“messenger and trickster, trader and thief” (Simon, Cities xvii)—can also be seen as “a hermeneut: an inquiring mind, an interpreter of texts and a mediator across languages” (xvii–xviii). The prospective volume is designed to continue, and expand on, various strands of scholarly discussion initiated by Sherry Simon’s publications (e.g., Translation Sites: A Field Guide, 2019; Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory, 2012; Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City, 2006), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City (edited by Tong King Lee, 2021), the “Space” issue of Translation: A Transdisciplinary Journal (vol. 7, edited by Sherry Simon and Siri Nergaard, 2018), and the “The City as Translation Zone” issue of Translation Studies (vol. 7, no. 2, edited by Michael Cronin and Sherry Simon, 2014), among others. We invite researchers in all fields related to translation to submit papers that will engage with the histories and contemporary lives of cities across the globe, not only Europe and North America, but also cities in Africa, Asia, Latin America. Former colonial cities are of particular interest as they develop new relationships across histories. Also of interest are symbolic sites in cities that bring together languages in specific ways: markets, hotels, bridges, opera houses. Translation and language relations can be approached through a great variety of methods—whether it be sociolinguistics, literature, communication theory, or artistic practices, including cinema. Researchers are invited to engage with the following (the list is not exhaustive): relationships between language and urban space; translational/dual cities; urban zones of translational resistance; cultural meanings shaped through language interaction within the city; urban forces impeding the transfer of language and memory; dialogues between cities; the city as translational palimpsest; contested memories; postcoloniality and translation spaces; literary accounts of the multilingual city; symbolic sites of language encounter; artistic practices of language encounter, including avant-garde and experimental forms; translators as city dwellers and cultural agents; cities translated through violence, occupation, appropriation; neighbours, strangers, immigrants, foreigners: translating otherness in the city. Deadline for submissions: 31 Jan 2024 For more information, click here.

Edited by Carme Mangiron (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona) and Mária Koscelníková (Constantine the Philosopher University) The video game industry has become a worldwide phenomenon, generating millions in revenue every year. Video games are increasingly becoming more elaborate and sophisticated, with advanced graphics and intricate story lines, and developers and publishers need to reach the widest possible audience in order to maximise their return on investment. Translating games into other languages and designing games that can be played for a wide spectrum of players, regardless of their (dis)ability, are two obvious ways to contribute to increasing the audience for the game industry. In addition, games are increasingly being used for “serious” purposes beyond entertainment, such as education, and such games should also be designed inclusively, to facilitate access to them by all types of players. Research on game localisation and accessibility has been gaining momentum in recent years. In particular, the number of studies analysing game localisation from different perspectives has increased dramatically, while game accessibility remains a relatively unexplored topic. This issue of L10N Journal will cover the following topics. Proposals about related topics are also welcome:  Game localisation process Standardisation and quality issues Game localisation best practices The game localisation industry today The future of the localisation industry Technology in game localisation AI in game localisation Machine translation and postediting in game localisation Cultural adaptation in games Transcreation Humour in games Gender issues in game localisation Dubbing and subtitling for games Localisation of online, mobile phone and tablet games, social games Localisation of indie games Localisation of serious games Video game fan translation Crowdsourcing Video games and Translation Studies The language of gaming Game accessibility Design for all, inclusive design Please send your articles to the editors of the issue, Carme Mangiron (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona) and Mária Koscelníková (Constantine the Philosopher University) at editorial@l10njournal.net with the subject: “L10N Journal Game Insights 2024” by 31st January 2024. The author guidelines can be found here. The publication of the issue is planned for June 2024. For more information, click here.

T-RADEX aims to bring together scholars working on any form of radical, extreme or extremist narratives from a translational, cross-cultural, multilingual and intercultural perspective.   Participants are invited to consider the role of translation in reproducing, manipulating, and spreading such discourses or to examine how extreme or radical narratives unfold in cross-cultural and/ or intercultural communication. T-RADEX aims to shed light on any form of extremist discourse / extreme or radical narrative that goes beyond what the majority considers extreme / extremist or radical. Such narratives can be found in both far-right and far-left discourse, and include radicalization discourse, social and/or exclusion narratives based on sexual orientation and gender. T-RADEX welcomes papers using a diverse range of perspectives and approaches to translation and cross-cultural communication, including Critical Discourse Analysis, Narrative Theory, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Appraisal Theory, Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, and Social Semiotics. We are inviting papers based on a variety of contexts (mainstream and alternative media, social media platforms), types of translation (translation, adaptation, localization, audio-visual translation, including dubbing and subtitling of videos of extreme or extremist content) and cross-cultural communication. For more information, click here. Closing date for submissions: 31 Jan 2024

The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) will be held from 8 to 14 September 2024 in Poznań. We invite abstracts for Sections, Focus streams, and Workshops. Sections will take place on Monday and Tuesday (9-10 September), Focus streams on Wednesday (11 September), and Workshops on Thursday and Friday (12-13 September).Abstracts should clearly state the research question(s), approach, method, data, and (expected) results. They should not display the names of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other information that could reveal their authorship. They should contain the title, five keywords, and a text between 300 and 400 words (including examples, excluding references). For more information, click here. Deadline for abstracts: 1 Feb 2024

As  a continuation of the now well-established tradition of conferences focusing on “Retranslation in Context, first organised at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (2013 and 2015), Ghent University (2017), Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid (2019) and most recently at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest (2022), we are delighted to announce the international conference Retranslation in Context VI, to be held at Ege University, Izmir on 31.10 - 01.11 2024.  As succinctly emphasized by Paloposki and Koskinen (2010, 30-31), retranslation is “a field of study that has been touched from many angles but not properly mapped out, and in which there exist a number of intuitive assumptions which have not been thoroughly studied.” In a further attempt to explore the concept in its broadest meaning, we hope to expand the discussion around the exciting phenomenon of retranslation. The aim of the conference is to gather researchers from various academic fields and encourage a multidisciplinary discussion regarding the intricacies and complexities of retranslation, drawing on both textual and contextual work. We invite papers and panels based on research into retranslation in the field of literary translation as well as studies on retranslations of scholarly and scientific texts. We also welcome studies on other aspects of retranslation, such as the historiographical, political and/or philosophical, as well as methodological approaches. Other subjects for discussion at the conference may include among others retranslation and gender, drama and retranslation, retranslation and censorship and taboo, the dissemination of knowledge, the role of different agents, market struggles and dynamics, retranslation and multimodality, digital paratexts and social media discourse around retranslated works. We invite contributions (20-minute papers) addressing diverse aspects of retranslation, focusing on but not limited to any of the topics listed below:  1. Retranslation and (Self-)Censorship 2. Retranslation and Taboo 3. Retranslation and History 4. Retranslation and Gender 5. Retranslation and Drama 6. Retranslation and Canon 7. Retranslation and Intertextuality  8. Retranslation Ethics  9. Retranslation and Multimodality 10. Retranslation and Politics 11. Retranslation and Digital Humanities 12. Retranslation and Audiovisual Translation 13. Retranslation and Religion   Deadline for abstracts: 15 Feb 2024 For more information, click here.  

We welcome proposals for conceptual papers as well as case studies and empirical research contributions that address the labour and work of translation and interpreting in both theory and practice. Please send your extended abstract (700-800 words, excluding references) to both editors Cornelia Zwischenberger (cornelia.zwischenberger@univie.ac.at) and Alexa Alfer (A.Alfer01@westminster.ac.uk) by 15 January 2023. Further Information: https://transcultcom.univie.ac.at/news-and-events/news-detail/news/call-for-papers-special-issue-of-traget/