Babel | Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation / Revista Internacional de Traducción

Editor-in-Chief
ORCID logoYifeng Sun | University of Macau
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Audrey Louckx | University of Mons
Managing Editor
ORCID logoChris Zijiang Song | University of Toronto | babel.ijt at gmail.com
Publication Director
Alison Lucre Rodriguez | Nelson, New Zealand
Members of Standing Committee
Andrew Evans | Itzig, Luxemburg
Annette Schiller | Dublin, Ireland
Founding Editor

Babel is a scholarly journal designed primarily for translators, interpreters and terminologists (T&I), yet of interest also for non-specialists concerned with current issues and events in the field.

The scope of Babel is intentional and embraces a multitude of disciplines built on the following pillars: T&I theory, practice, pedagogy, technology, history, sociology, and terminology management. Another important segment of this journal includes articles on the development and evolution of the T&I professions: new disciplines, growth, recognition, Codes of Ethics, protection, and prospects.
The creation of Babel was proposed on the initiative of Pierre-François Caillé, founding president of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT) and approved by the first FIT Congress of 1954 in Paris. Babel continues to be published for FIT and each issue contains a section dedicated to THE LIFE OF FIT.
Articles for Babel are normally published in English or French but we also accept articles in Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Babel is published for the International Federation of Translators (FIT).

Babel publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 0521-9744 | E-ISSN: 1569-9668
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Latest articles

28 October 2024

  • Evren Savcı . 2021. Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
    Reviewed by Yahia Ma
  • Christopher Rundle , Anne Lange Daniele Monticelli . 2022. Translation under Communism
    Reviewed by Sofía Monzón
  • 19 July 2024

  • Reception zones of translated Nigerian literature in France : The case of Chimamanda Adichie
    Sylvia Ijeoma Madueke
  • Beattie Pamela , Simona Bertacco Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe (eds.). 2022. Time, Space, Matter in Translation
    Reviewed by Margherita Dore
  • 28 May 2024

  • Professional realism in practice : A collaborative project in a translation classroom based on ISO 17100:2015 and ISO/TS 11669:2012
    Ksenia Gałuskina Joanna Sycz-Opoń | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 455–483
  • Influence du compte-rendu intégré des problèmes et décisions (CRIPD) sur la qualité de la traduction : Analyse croisée des erreurs et des commentaires d’étudiants en traduction spécialisée
    Charlène Meyers
  • The ethnographic museum as a sensitive translation : The case of the AfricaMuseum in Belgium
    Anneleen Spiessens Luc van Doorslaer | BABEL 70:5 (2024) pp. 727–758
  • 13 May 2024

  • Translating artworks : Interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation in museums
    Chiara Bartolini | BABEL 70:5 (2024) pp. 637–657
  • Generational translation in the Jewish Museum, Berlin : Navigating between history and story
    Clare Hindley , Katja Grupp Magda Sylwestrowicz | BABEL 70:5 (2024) pp. 682–703
  • Visitor experience as translation : Intertextuality and identity in experiences of an American Chinese museum
    Robert Neather | BABEL 70:5 (2024) pp. 615–636
  • Subtitling strategies of swear words in the stand-up comedy Mo Amer: Muhammad in Texas
    Islam Al Sawi
  • “So if you’re going fossil hunting, that’s where you should look” : Popularization for children in science museum websites
    Annalisa Sezzi Jessica Jane Nocella | BABEL 70:5 (2024) pp. 704–726
  • Piotr Blumczynski Steven Wilson (eds.). 2022. The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare
    Reviewed by Anca Bodzer
  • 1 May 2024

  • Communication with international visitors : Interlingual translation practice in the University of Tartu Museum
    Terje Loogus Jaanika Anderson | BABEL 70:5 (2024) pp. 658–681
  • 29 April 2024

  • Conceptualizing museum translation : Cultural translation, interlingual processes and other perspectives
    Irmak Mertens Sophie Decroupet | BABEL 70:5 (2024) pp. 593–614
  • 23 April 2024

  • Mª Carmen Vidal Claramonte . 2024. Translation and Repetition. Rewriting (Un)original Literature
    Reseña de David Marín-Hernández
  • Bill Porter . 2023. Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations
    Reviewed by Katerina Michail
  • 8 April 2024

  • Lucía Ruiz Rosendo Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.). 2023. Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting
    Reviewed by Mathieu Veys
  • 5 April 2024

  • The retranslator as the propagandist of MOI : The discursive contexts of the (re-)translation of Rumi’s Divan-e-Shams in the United States
    Katayoon Afzali
  • 2 April 2024

  • Pronoun shifts in political discourse : The English translations of the Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s statements on the international stage
    Narongdej Phanthaphoommee Jeremy Munday
  • East Asian translations of Jean-Paul Sartre’s pre-1950 literary works : East Asian translators’ wartime experiences and translation practices (1938–1975)
    Sabrina Choi Kit Yeung
  • 11 March 2024

  • Apport de la littératie informationnelle et multimodale dans la pratique traductive
    Guillaume Jeanmaire Daeyoung Kim | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 305–333
  • Decision-making in the translation of proper-name allusions : Translation strategies in both directions between English and Chinese
    Haimeng Ren | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 381–414
  • 12 February 2024

  • Relay interpreting (chongyi) as auspicious rhetoric in discourse on China-bound diplomatic visits
    Rachel Lung
  • El léxico coloquial proveniente del lenguaje juvenil en la lengua de ficción española e italiana, versiones originales y meta
    Pablo Zamora Muñoz | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 507–530
  • 19 January 2024

  • Reconstruing the image of Shan Gui : A multimodal translation from poetry to painting
    Xi Wang Rong Jiang | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 186–210
  • 9 January 2024

  • Translating what the image conveys or what it arouses? Delineating the threshold between inferability transfer and inference transfer in multimodal translation
    Olli Philippe Lautenbacher | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 164–185
  • 21 December 2023

  • Recontextualizing Nouvelle Vague cinema in Québec : Leonard Cohen, subtitler of Claude Jutra’s À tout prendre
    Jorge Díaz-Cintas Francis Mus | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 277–303
  • 15 December 2023

  • Towards a corpus-based approach to graphic elements in creative subtitling : A case study of the YouTube channel “Apenjie with Dawang”
    Zhiwei Wu | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 138–163
  • James Luke Hadley , Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov , Carlos S. C. Teixeira Antonio Toral (eds.). 2022. Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation
    Reviewed by Yuezeng Niu Ali Jalalian Daghigh
  • 12 December 2023

  • Translation as de- and reconstructing synsemiotic relationships : Contextual dimensions of opera libretto translation
    Marco Agnetta | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 17–39
  • Malleable meaning : Translating and recontextualizing The Garden of Earthly Delights from the Gallery of Nassau to the Centro Cultural de Belém
    Vanessa Montesi | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 211–233
  • Recontextualizing disassembled texts : Exploring the concept of the “Web of Texts” in mobile game “Blind” localization from Chinese into foreign languages
    Luis Damián Moreno García | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 64–88
  • Self-domestication : Wan Kin-lau’s self-translations at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
    James Shea | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 554–574
  • Brand transcreation as multimodal configuration : The (re)making of text, context, and meaning in brand semiotics
    Junchao Wang Min Li | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) p. 89
  • 11 December 2023

  • Reframing Zhuangzi through recontextualization : A multimodal analysis of front covers of both Zhuangzi Shuo and its three translations
    Guangzhe Huang | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 251–276
  • Advertising translation in social media : Multimodality and simultaneity in a global campaign
    Irene Rodríguez-Arcos | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 111–137
  • Images that translate
    Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 234–250
  • Literary back-translation, mistranslation, and misattribution : A case study of Mark Twain’s Jumping Frog
    Kelly Washbourne | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 415–435
  • Pei-yin Lin Wen-chi Li (eds.). 2022. Taiwanese Literature as World Literature
    Reviewed by Aoife Cantrill | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 575–578
  • Rei Miyata , Masaru Yamada Kyo Kageura (eds.). 2022. Metalanguages for Dissecting Translation Processes: Theoretical Development and Practical Applications
    Reviewed by Kizito Tekwa
  • 8 December 2023

  • From “Within” to “Beyond” in interpreting studies : Conceptualizing interpreting as a socio-political and historical shaping force and a source of inter/trans-disciplinary conviviality
    Chonglong Gu Binhua Wang
  • On the dynamic interplay of macro and micro contexts in translation : A case study of Cardi B’s subtitled Chinese bullet-screen videos on Bilibili during the China-United States tensions of Trump’s presidency
    Peng Qiao | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 40–63
  • 5 December 2023

  • Das Urbild der Menschheit de Krause en español : Un reto histórico
    Andrea Schäpers | BABEL 69:6 (2023) pp. 749–765
  • 4 December 2023

  • Piotr Blumczynski Steven Wilson (eds.). 2023. The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare
    Reviewed by Christophe Declercq Antoon Cox
  • Sharon Deane-Cox Anneleen Spiessens (eds.). 2022. The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory
    Reviewed by Marit van de Warenburg Christophe Declercq
  • 28 November 2023

  • Text and context revisited within a multimodal framework
    Yves Gambier Olli Philippe Lautenbacher | BABEL 70:1-2 (2024) pp. 1–16
  • 24 November 2023

  • Joseph Lambert (ed.). 2023. Translation Ethics
    Reviewed by Phillippa May Bennett
  • 23 November 2023

  • Denise Kripper . 2023. Narratives of Mistranslation. Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature
    Reviewed by Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy
  • 21 November 2023

  • Exploring homology of fields in translation : A sociological examination of Chinese contemporary literature translation in Brazil and Portugal (2000–2022)
    Mengyuan Zhou
  • The construction of philosophical ideas in the paratexts of the German translation of the Zhuangzi by Richard Wilhelm
    Nana Pang Mengye Liang | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 531–553
  • Susan Petrilli Meng Ji (eds.). 2023. Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions: Translating across Signs, Bodies and Values
    Reviewed by Krisztina Zimányi
  • 20 November 2023

  • Yan Wei . 2023. The Transculturation of Judge Dee Stories: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
    Reviewed by Hao Li
  • Joseph Lambert (ed.). 2023. Translation Ethics
    Reviewed by Wenhao Yao Qi Pan
  • 20 October 2023

  • Studying literary translations in periodicals : Methodological reflection and case studies from the 1970–80s in Hong Kong
    Ka Ki Wong | BABEL 69:6 (2023) pp. 822–847
  • 10 October 2023

  • Cloud subtitling in research-led education : Synergizing audiovisual translator training and action research
    Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 484–506
  • Applying feminist translation strategies in audio description : On the negotiation of visual representations of non-normativity
    Gonzalo Iturregui-Gallardo Irene Hermosa-Ramírez | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 334–356
  • MªCarmen África Vidal Claramonte . 2022. Translation and Contemporary Art: Transdisciplinary Encounters
    Reviewed by Sarah I. Aldawood
  • Fabrizio Gallai . 2023. Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach
    Reviewed by Han Lili
  • Federico Marco Federici (ed.). 2022. Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Translating and Interpreting the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Reviewed by Wenhe Zhang Shaoqiang Zhang | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 445–449
  • 5 October 2023

  • First Secretary Gierek, President Carter, and the president’s Polish interpreter : An analysis of an awkward diplomatic encounter based on new archival evidence
    Leonid S. Chekin | BABEL 69:6 (2023) pp. 725–748
  • La retraducción como práctica arqueológica : Estudio holístico de cuatro retraducciones de Moby-Dick en español
    Javier Ortiz García | BABEL 69:6 (2023) pp. 766–796
  • Sophie Ling-chia Wei . 2020. Chinese Theology and Translation: The Christianity of the Jesuit Figurists and Their Christianized Yijing
    Reviewed by Joanna Krenz
  • Jinsil Choi . 2022. Government Translation in South Korea: A Corpus-based Study
    Reviewed by Li Tao
  • Andrew Samuel Walsh . 2020. Lorca in English: A History of Manipulation through Translation
    Reviewed by Marius Swart | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 579–581
  • Peng Wang David B. Sawyer . 2023. Machine Learning in Translation
    Reviewed by Kizito Tekwa | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 450–453
  • Callum Walker . 2023. Translation Project Management
    Reviewed by Margherita Zanoletti | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 590–592
  • 2 October 2023

  • Carla Quinci . 2023. Translation Competence: Theory, Research, and Practice
    Reviewed by Lau Ngar Wai
  • 26 September 2023

  • Danmu-assisted learning through back translation : Reception of the English-dubbed Journey to the West (Season II)
    Chen Xuemei | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 598–624
  • 22 September 2023

  • Technology preparedness and translator training : Implications for curricula
    Hari Venkatesan | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 666–703
  • 18 September 2023

  • Power dynamics in Egypt’s censorship of Gibran’s The Prophet
    Hisham M. Ali | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 581–597
  • From classical to cosmopolitan : Post-colonial translations of Cilapattikaram
    Anna George | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 625–640
  • Rewriting the Indian other : A post-colonial translation of Rudyard Kipling’s “The story of Muhammad Din” into Arabic
    Mohammed Hamdan | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 641–665
  • 31 July 2023

  • Lucía Ruiz Rosendo Marija Todorova (eds.). 2022. Interpreter Training in Conflict and Post-Conflict Scenarios
    Reviewed by Ondřej Klabal | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 442–444
  • 25 July 2023

  • Do education and the labor market speak the same language? Challenges of the ESCO European classification of occupations in mapping today’s professional translators
    Natividad Aguayo-Arrabal | BABEL 69:3 (2023) pp. 305–332
  • 24 July 2023

  • The creativity and limitations of AI neural machine translation : A corpus-based study of DeepL’s English-to-Chinese translation of Shakespeare’s plays
    Hu Kaibao Li Xiaoqian | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 546–563
  • Ethical issues for literary translation in the Era of artificial intelligence
    Li Bo | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 529–545
  • Walter Benjamin as translator as John Henry : Competing with the machine
    Douglas Robinson | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 499–528
  • Neural machine translation and human translation : A political and ideological perspective
    Sheng Anfeng Kong Yankun | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 483–498
  • Automated translation and pragmatic force : A discussion from the perspective of intercultural pragmatics
    Roberto A. Valdeón | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 447–464
  • M.ª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte . 2023. Translating Borrowed Tongues. The Verbal Quest of Ilan Stavans
    Reviewed by Núria Molines-Galarza | BABEL 69:6 (2023) pp. 865–868
  • Séverine Hubscher-Davidson Caroline Lehr (eds.). 2023. The Psychology of Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach
    Reviewed by Tao Wang Shuxian Song | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 582–585
  • Maghiel van Crevel Lucas Klein (eds.). 2019. Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs
    Reviewed by Sum Wong | BABEL 70:4 (2024) pp. 586–589
  • Hanna Pięta , Rita Bueno Maia Ester Torres-Simón . 2022. Indirect Translation Explained
    Reviewed by Zhou Mengyuan | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 720–723
  • 6 July 2023

  • Defending the last bastion : A sociological approach to the challenged literary translation
    Wang Hongtao | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 465–482
  • 3 July 2023

  • The untranslatability of Literaturnost revisited in the era of artificial intelligence
    Han Lei | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 564–579
  • 29 June 2023

  • Claudine Borg . 2022. A Literary Translation in the Making: A Process Orientated Perspective
    Reviewed by Mary Isobel Bardet | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 439–441
  • Introduction : Literary translation in the age of artificial intelligence
    Wang Ning | BABEL 69:4 (2023) pp. 437–446
  • 15 June 2023

  • Paratexts as a site of cultural reflection : James Legge and Wang Tao’s collaborative translation of The Chinese Classics
    Riccardo Moratto Xu Qianqian | BABEL 69:3 (2023) pp. 375–397
  • 12 June 2023

  • Jhumpa Lahiri . 2022. Translating Myself and Others
    Reviewed by Yow Tsz Chung
  • 9 June 2023

  • Fan Shengyu . 2022. The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone
    Reviewed by Xiaodi Wang | BABEL 70:3 (2024) pp. 436–438
  • 8 June 2023

  • The Little Prince : A study of its translations into Hebrew and Arabic
    Judith Rosenhouse | BABEL 69:2 (2023) pp. 242–265
  • Douglas Robinson . 2023. Priming Translation Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors
    Reviewed by Ferdi Bozkurt | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 704–707
  • Yifeng Sun Dechao Li (eds.). 2023. Transcultural Poetics: Chinese Literature in English Translation
    Reviewed by Xiang Jun | BABEL 69:3 (2023) pp. 433–435
  • 7 June 2023

  • M. Cristina Caimotto Rachele Raus . 2023. Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse
    Reviewed by Jan Buts | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 708–711
  • Chuan Yu . 2022. Online Collaborative Translation in China and Beyond: Community, Practice, and Identity
    Reviewed by Huang Boyi | BABEL 69:5 (2023) pp. 716–719
  • Gisele Dionísio da Silva Maura Radicioni (eds.). 2022. Recharting Territories: Intradisciplinarity in Translation Studies
    Reviewed by Lu Sijing | BABEL 69:6 (2023) pp. 859–864
  • 2 June 2023

  • Irene Ranzato Serenella Zanotti (eds.). 2019. Reassessing Dubbing: Historical Approaches and Current Trends
    Reviewed by Pan Li Huang Chuxin | BABEL 69:6 (2023) pp. 853–858
  • 16 May 2023

  • Traducir literatura africana poscolonial : El caso de “Miedo y asco a salir de Harare”, de Dambudzo Marechera
    María Remedios Fernández-Ruiz | BABEL 69:3 (2023) pp. 333–352
  • Translations of Alice in Wonderland in the Sinosphere : Outward Adventures or homecoming tales?
    Li Xueyi | BABEL 69:3 (2023) pp. 353–374
  • Tong King Lee . 2023. Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect
    Reviewed by Lian-Hee Wee | BABEL 69:3 (2023) pp. 421–424
  • 15 May 2023

  • Words with borders : Censoring translated books in the Jordanian context
    Bilal Sayaheen Ibrahim Darwish | BABEL 69:3 (2023) pp. 398–415
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    Examples and glosses

    Examples should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc.) in parentheses.

    Examples in languages other than the language in which your article is written should be given in italics with an approximate translation. Glosses may be inserted between the original and the translation. This interlinear gloss does not receive punctuation or highlighting. For abbreviations in the interlinear gloss, you may use CAPS or SMALL CAPS, which will be converted to small caps by our typesetters during final formatting.

    Please note that lines 1 and 2 are strung together by using spaces: It is important that the number of elements in lines 1 and 2 matches. If two words in the example match a word in the gloss, put a full stop to join the two words (2a). Hyphens are used to separate morphemes (1, 2b).

    Each next level in the example gets an indent/tab.

    (1)          Kare wa    besutoseraa  o          takusan kaite-iru.        

                  he     TOP best-seller     ACC    many     write-PERF    

                  “He has written many best-sellers.’”                              

    (2)          a.            Jan houdt van Marie.

                                 Jan loves         Marie

                                 “Jan loves Marie.”

                  b.            Ed en  Floor  gaan samen-wonen.

                                 Ed and Floor   go      together-live.INF

                                 “Ed and Floor are going to live together.”

    Notes

    Notes should be kept to a minimum. Note indicators in the text should appear at the end of sentences and follow punctuation marks.

    Funding information

    Funding information should be provided if funding was received through a grant for the research that is discussed in the article, including funder name and grant number, in a separate section called "Funding information" before (an Acknowledgment section and) the References.

    Acknowledgments

    Acknowledgments (other than funding information, see above) should be added in a separate, unnumbered section entitled "Acknowledgments", placed before the References.

    References

    It is essential that the references are formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines, as these cannot be formatted automatically. This book series uses the ‘Author-Date’ style as described in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
    References in the text: These should be as precise as possible, giving page references where necessary; for example (Clahsen 1991, 252) or: as in Brown et al. (1991, 252). All references in the text should appear in the references section.
    References section: References should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically. The section should include all (and only!) references that are actually mentioned in the text.
    A note on capitalization in titles. For titles in English, CMS uses headline-style capitalization. In titles and subtitles, capitalize the first and last words, and all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, some conjunctions). Do not capitalize articles; prepositions (unless used adverbially or adjectivally, or as part of a Latin expression used adverbially or adjectivally); the conjunctions and, but, for, or, nor; to as part of an infinitive; as in any grammatical function; parts of proper names that would be lower case in normal text; the second part of a species name. For more details and examples, consult the Chicago Manual of Style. For any other languages, and English translations of titles given in square brackets, CMS uses sentence-style capitalization: capitalization as in normal prose, i.e., the first word in the title, the subtitle, and any proper names or other words normally given initial capitals in the language in question.

    Examples


    Book:

    Görlach, Manfred. 2003. English Words Abroad. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  

    Spear, Norman E., and Ralph R. Miller, eds. 1981. Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

    Holz-Mänttäri, Justa. 1984.Translatorisches Handeln. Theorie und Methode [Translation action: Theory and method]. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.

    Sun, Yifeng . 2016. Wenhua fanyi   文化翻譯 [Cultural translation] . Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe.

    (Görlach 2003 )
    (Spear and Miller 1981)

    (Holz-Mänttäri 1984, 33)
    (Sun 2016, 10–33)

    Journal article:

    Rayson, Paul, Geoffrey N. Leech, and Mary Hodges. 1997. “Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary: Some Analyses of the Conversational Component of the British National Corpus.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2 (1): 120–132.

    Van Dijk, Teun A. 1995. “Discourse, Opinions and Ideologies.” Current Issues in Language and Society 2 (2): 115 145. doi.org/10.1080/13520529509615438 .

    Claes, Jeroen, and Luis A. Ortiz López. 2011. “Restricciones pragmáticas y sociales en la expresión de futuridad en el español de Puerto Rico” [Pragmatic and social restrictions in the expression of the future in Puerto Rican Spanish]. Spanish in Context 8: 50–72.

    Sun, Yifeng 孫藝風 . 2019. “Fanyi yanjiu yu shijie wenxue” 翻譯研究與世界文學 [Translation studies and world literature]. Zhongguo fanyi 中國翻譯 [Chinese translators journal] 40 (1): 5 18.

    (Rayson, Leech and Hoges 1997, 124–130)
    (Claes and López 2011) (Sun 2019, 12)


    Book chapter:

    Adams, Clare A., and Anthony Dickinson. 1981. “Actions and Habits: Variation in Associative Representation during Instrumental Learning.” In Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms, edited by Norman E. Spear and Ralph R. Miller, 143–186. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    van Doorslaer, Luc. 2010. “Journalism and Translation.” In Handbook of Translation Studies, edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, vol. 1, 180–184. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

    (Adams and Dickinson 1981, 143–186)
    (van Doorslaer 2010, 180–184)

    Translation:

    Pu, Songlin. 2006. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, translated by John Minford. London: Penguin Classics.

    Minford, John, trans. 2006. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio , by Pu Songlin. London: Penguin Classics.

    (Pu 2006, 67)
    (Minford 2006, 120–123)


    Multivolume works:

    Gambier, Yves, and Luc van Doorslaer. 2014. Handbook of Translation Studies. 4 vols. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

    Gambier, Yves, and Luc van Doorslaer. 2014. Handbook of Translation Studies, vol. 4. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

    (Gambier and van Doorslaer 2014)

    Newspaper and magazine articles:

    Owen, Stephen.1990. “What Is World Poetry? The Anxiety of Global Influence.” New Republic, 19 November 1990, 28–32.

    Goldblatt, Howard. “My Hero: Mo Yan.” Guardian, 12 October 2012.

    (Owen 1990, 28–32)

    (Goldblatt 2012)

    (Lovell 2012)

    Thesis or dissertation:

    Rutz, Cynthia Lillian. 2013. “King Lear and Its Folktale Analogue.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago.

    (Rutz 2013, 56–57)

    Website:

    Lovell, Julia. 2012. “Mo Yan’s Creative Space.” New York Times, 15 October 2012. Accessed 10 November 2020. www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/opinion/mo-yans-creative-space.html .

    Adam, Joshua V. 2018. “Translation Without Theory.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 October 2018. Accessed 10 November 2020. lareviewofbooks.org/article/translation-without-theory .

    (Lovell 2012)

    (Adam 2018)

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    4.  Miscellaneous

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    Subjects

    Translation & Interpreting Studies

    Translation Studies

    Main BIC Subject

    CFP: Translation & interpretation

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting