The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies

475 Pages·2011·4.64 MB·English

by  Kirsten Malmkjær

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Acknowledgements
Our thanks are due to the Taylor & Francis Group for permission to make use of a diagram
from Comparative Children's Literature by Emer OʼSullivan, published by Routledge in 2005.
The editors are grateful to all the contributors for their cooperation and good grace in
providing their material in conformity with our requirements, and bearing with us through the
editing process.
Kevin Windle is indebted to his colleagues James Grieve, Marian Hill, and Rosh Ireland for
perceptive comments and advice.
We both owe a great debt of gratitude to our editor at OUP, John Davey, for his unfailing
patience, good humour, support, and sound advice throughout our work on this project.
Kirsten Malmkjær University of Leicester
Kevin Windle Australian National University
April 2010
Notes on Contributors
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The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies
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Print Publication Date: Mar 2011 Subject: Linguistics
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2012
Notes on Contributors
Robert Barnes
holds degrees in classics from the University of Queensland and in theology from
Oxford and Harvard. From 1969 to 2003 he was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in
Classics and in History at the Australian National University, Canberra, and Convener
of the Religious Studies Program. He is now a Visiting Fellow in Classics at ANU. He is
the author, with Stephen Prickett, of The Bible (Landmarks of World Literature, 1991).
Charlotte Barslund
translates Scandinavian novels and plays into English. Her translation of Karin
Fossum's Calling out for You was nominated for the 2005 Gold Dagger Award. Other
translated novels include Peter Adolphsen's Machine, nominated for the 2010 IMPAC
Award, and Per Petterson's I Curse the River of Time. She has a BA in English and
drama and an MA in Scandinavian Translation. She is a member of the Chartered
Institute of Linguists.
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Susan Bassnett
was, until her retirement in 2010, Professor of Comparative Literature at Warwick
University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has written extensively on
translation, intercultural communication, comparative and world literature, including
Translation in Global News, with Esperance Bielsa (2009) and an edited volume on
translation and political discourse with Christina Schaeffner (2010).
Jean Boase-Beier
teaches literary translation and stylistics at the University of East Anglia, and runs the
MA in Literary Translation. Her research focuses on translation theory, the language of
literature, cognitive stylistics, the translation of style, and the translation of poetry. Her
most recent publications include Stylistic Approaches to Translation (St Jerome, 2006)
and a number of articles on translation and style. She is also a translator between
German and English and the editor of the ‘Visible Poets’ series of bilingual poetry
books (Arc Publications).
Charlotte Bosseaux
is Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in the
way characterization is dealt with in translation. She first examined literary texts and is
the author of How Does it Feel? Point of View in Translation (2007). She has now
turned her attention to audiovisual texts, and has recently published articles on
characterization in the French versions of the American television series Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.
Christophe Declercq
graduated as a translator at Lessius, Antwerp. After positions at Lessius, Blondé,
Decathlon, and Yamagata Europe, he became a lecturer first at Imperial College
London and later also at HIVT, University College Antwerp. He has been a visiting
lecturer at various universities in the UK, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. He
works as a freelance translator mainly for Golazo Sports Management, and works
closely with SDL and ITR (International Translation Resources).
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Notes on Contributors
Sandra Hale
is Associate Professor and Leader of the Interpreting and Translation Research Group
at the University of Western Sydney. She has published extensively and is the author
of The Discourse of Court Interpreting and Community Interpreting, and co-editor of
Interpreting in Legal Settings and The Critical Link 5: Quality in Interpreting—a
Shared Responsibility. She is a Spanish community and conference interpreter.
Roger Hillman
is an Associate Professor teaching German Studies and Film Studies (Schools of
Language Studies and Cultural Inquiry) at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Research interests include Turkish-German cinema and literature; European film and
history; film and music. Recent publications include Unsettling Scores: German Film,
Music, Ideology (Indiana University Press, 2005); (co-editor) Reading Images, Viewing
Texts: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives (Lang, 2006); (co-author) Transkulturalitiät:
Türkisch-deutsche Konstellationen in Literatur und Film (Münster, 2007).
John Hutchins
has written on linguistics, information retrieval, and particularly machine translation
(see http://www.hutchinsweb.me.uk), including Machine Translation: Past, Present,
Future (1986), An Introduction to Machine Translation (with Harold Somers, 1992),
and (editor) Early Years in Machine Translation (2000). He edited MT News
International 1991–97; since 2000 he has compiled the six-monthly Compendium of
Translation Software and since 2004 the Machine Translation Archive (http://www.mt-
archive.info). He was President of the European Association for Machine Translation
1995–2004, and of the International Association for Machine Translation 1999–2001.
Riitta Jääskeläinen,
Ph.D, is Professor of English (translation and interpreting) at the University of Eastern
Finland (former University of Joensuu). Her research has focused on translation
processes, with a special interest in methodology. Her dissertation Tapping the
Process was published in 1999 (University of Joensuu Publications in the Humanities
22). Her other publications include several co-edited volumes, co-edited special
issues of scholarly journals, and articles in journals and collective volumes.
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Notes on Contributors
Francis R. Jones
teaches Translation Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He researches poetry
translation, focusing on professional strategies and practices, and ideologies of
representation. He has published many translation-studies articles plus a poetry-
translation travelogue through ex-Yugoslavia (Prevoditeljev Put [Translator's
Journey], Sarajevo, 2004), and is now working on a poetry-translation monograph. He
translates poetry from Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian,
Papiamento, and Sranan into standard English, Yorkshire, and Geordie, with 14 solo-
translated books and 9 translation prizes to his name.
Dorothy Kenny
is Senior Lecturer at Dublin City University, where she lectures in Translation Studies,
specializing in translation technology and corpus linguistics. Her publications include:
Lexis and Creativity in Translation: A Corpus-Based Study (St Jerome, 2001), the
edited volumes Unity in Diversity: Current Trends in Translation Studies (St Jerome,
1998) and Across Boundaries: International Perspectives on Translation Studies
(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), and numerous articles and book chapters on
corpus-based translation studies, computer-aided translation, translator training, and
translation theory.
Gillian Lathey
is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Roehampton
University London. She has published numerous journal articles on children's literature
as well as a monograph on German- and English-language autobiographical children's
literature on World War Two, and is editor of The Translation of Children's Literature:
A Reader (2006). For ten years she administered the biennial Marsh Award for
Children's Literature in Translation, and she is now a judge for the Award.
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Kirsten Malmkjær
studied English and philosophy at Birmingham University and completed her Ph.D in
Translation Theory there. From 1985 until 1989 she taught in the English Department at
Birmingham and from 1989 until 1999 at the Research Centre for English and Applied
Linguistics, Cambridge. She became Professor of Translation Studies at Middlesex
University in 1999, and from September 2010, Professor of Translation Studies at the
University of Leicester. She has published widely on translation, and edits the journal
Target for John Benjamins.
Jemina Napier
gained her Ph.D in 2002 from Macquarie University, where she then established
Australia's first university sign language interpreting programme. She is now Director of
the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Research. Jemina has extensive experience
as a signed language interpreter and interpreter educator. Her major research interest
is in the field of signed language interpreting, but her wider interests include effective
translation and interpreting pedagogy and discourse analysis.
Franz Pöchhacker
is Associate Professor of Interpreting Studies in the Centre for Translation Studies at
the University of Vienna. He holds Master's degrees in conference interpreting and has
been working freelance since the late 1980s. His research covers both conference
and community-based settings, as well as general issues of interpreting studies as a
discipline. He has published a number of articles and books and is co-editor of the
journal Interpreting.
Anthony Pym
is Director of Postgraduate Programs in Translation and Intercultural Studies at the
Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, and is also a Visiting Scholar at the
Monterey Institute of International Studies in the United States. He holds a Ph.D from the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
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