Edited By Eugenia Dal Fovo and Paola Gentile   A glance at the current state of the profession reveals a varied scenario in which Translation and Interpreting (T&I) constitute two interlingual processes usually performed by the same person in the same communicative situation or in different situations within the same…

The fifth Translation Studies Summer School organised by SoFT, Société Française de Traductologie, this year with the University of Alicante, will be held at Sede de la Nucía in the town of La Nucía (Spain) from July 22nd to July 26th 2019 This intensive course is designed to reflect on…

The Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce the launch of The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar The Award is established in honour of the late Professor Martha Cheung (1953-2013), formerly Chair Professor of Translation at Hong…

Accessible Filmmaking: Integrating translation and accessibility into the filmmaking process by Pablo Romero-Fresco   Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film industry, where current distribution strategies and exhibition platforms severely…

Using computers in the translation of literary style: challenges and opportunities by Roy Youdale This volume argues for an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and translation of literary style, based on a mutually supportive combination of traditional close reading and ‘distant’ reading, involving corpus-linguistic analysis and text-visualisation. The book contextualizes…

Translation and Tourism: Strategies for Effective Cross-Cultural Promotion by M. Zain Sulaiman and Rita Wilson   This book addresses one of the most central, yet criticised, solutions for international tourism promotion, namely translation. It brings together theory and practice, explores the various challenges involved in translating tourism promotional materials (TPMs), and…

Circulation of Academic Thought: Rethinking Translation in the Academic Field Edited By Rafael Y. Schögler Academic thought circulates on a time-space continuum: authors, ideas and methods are discovered, discussed, discarded, praised, rewritten, refracted, transformed, transposed and translated. The contributors of this anthology develop cross-disciplinary approaches to study and understand translation of…