Waltraud Kolb

Kolb, Waltraud and Sonja Pöllabauer 2023 Women as interpreters in colonial New Netherland: A microhistorical study of Sara Kierstede Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies): A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker, Zwischenberger, Cornelia, Karin Reithofer and Sylvi Rennert (eds.), pp. 126–146 | Chapter

This contribution presents a case study of Sara Kierstede (aka Roelof, Van Borsum, Stouthoff), a Dutch-speaking New Netherland settler and 17th-century interpreter who was proficient in Dutch and Native American languages and served as interpreter in a male-dominated colonial environment in… read more

Kolb, Waltraud, Wolfgang U. Dressler and Elisa Mattiello 2023 Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations Target 35:4, pp. 540–572 | Article

Literary occasionalisms, new words coined by writers with a particular poetic aim in view, often pose a great challenge for translators. Given recent advances in machine translation (MT), could literary translators benefit from MT when it comes to the translation of occasionalisms? We address… read more

Kolb, Waltraud 2021 Chapter 5. “Hemingway’s priorities were just different”: Self-concepts of literary translators Literary Translator Studies, Kaindl, Klaus, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager (eds.), pp. 107–121 | Chapter

Kolb, Waltraud 2019 “It was on my mind all day”: Literary translators working from home – some implications of workplace dynamics Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes, Risku, Hanna, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic (eds.), pp. 25–41 | Article

This paper explores authentically situated translation processes of literary translators, based on an empirical study of five professional German literary translators translating a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It focuses on macro-level workplace dynamics: How do translators working from home… read more

Kolb, Waltraud 2017 “It was on my mind all day”: Literary translators working from home – some implications of workplace dynamics Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes, Risku, Hanna, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic (eds.), pp. 27–43 | Article

This paper explores authentically situated translation processes of literary translators, based on an empirical study of five professional German literary translators translating a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It focuses on macro-level workplace dynamics: How do translators working from home… read more

Kolb, Waltraud 2015 Brumme, Jenny & Anna Espunya, eds. 2012. The Translation of Fictive Dialogue Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies, Munday, Jeremy and Meifang Zhang (eds.), pp. 472–477 | Review

Kolb, Waltraud 2014 Translation as a source of humor: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated/Alles ist erleuchtet Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction, Kaindl, Klaus and Karlheinz Spitzl (eds.), pp. 299–314 | Article

Kolb, Waltraud 2013 “Who are they?”: Decision-making in literary translation Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Leuven 2010, Way, Catherine, Sonia Vandepitte, Reine Meylaerts and Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk (eds.), pp. 207–221 | Article

Empirical data such as translators’ verbal reports, keylogs, and notes allow us to understand more clearly how translators arrive at the choices they make. In this paper, the decision-making processes of five literary translators who translated a short story by Hemingway into German will be… read more

Pöchhacker, Franz and Waltraud Kolb 2009 8. Interpreting for the record: A case study of asylum review hearings The Critical Link 5: Quality in interpreting – a shared responsibility, Hale, Sandra, Uldis Ozolins and Ludmila Stern (eds.), pp. 119–134 | Article

This paper addresses a specific aspect of interpreting in Austrian asylum review hearings, i.e., the interpreter’s role as a co-producer of the written record. The interpreter-mediated encounter is viewed as a joint, co-constructed activity, with responsibility for its content, progression and… read more

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Literary Translator Studies

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