Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development
Edited by Jan Buts, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley
Special issue of Translation Spaces 12:2 (2023) v, 181 pp.
Hanna Pięta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hanna Pięta plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Translation Studies
What can research on indirect translation do for Translation Studies?
Edited by Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and Yves Gambier
Special issue of Target 34:3 (2022) v, 194 pp.
Subjects Translation Studies
Articles
2023 Indirect translation and sustainable development: Introduction Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development, Buts, Jan, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley (eds.), pp. 167–176 | Review article
In August 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled Why is this colorful little wheel suddenly everywhere in Japan? (Dooley and Ueno 2022). The little wheel refers to the logo of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a United Nations (UN) initiative at the core of Agenda 2030,… read more
2023 Is indirect translation a friend or a foe of sustainable development? Pivot subtitlers’ perspective Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development, Buts, Jan, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley (eds.), pp. 204–230 | Article
This article addresses the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) through the lens of pivot template subtitling, a practice deemed logistically efficient by some and ethically suspicious by others. Drawing on (i) a critical review of 29 European codes of… read more
2023 Subtitlers’ beliefs about pivot templates: What do they tell us about language hierarchies and translation quality in streaming service platforms? Audiovisual translation in the age of streaming, Choi, Jinsil, Kyung Hye Kim and Jonathan Evans (eds.), pp. 426–454 | Article
Streaming service platforms are said to increase worldwide access to peripheral languages, often via the use of pivot templates. To shed light on how pivot subtitling practices impact language hierarchies and translation quality, we report on the results of an online questionnaire completed by… read more
2022 What can research on indirect translation do for Translation Studies? What can research on indirect translation do for Translation Studies?, Pięta, Hanna, Laura Ivaska and Yves Gambier (eds.), pp. 349–369 | Review article
This special issue is about indirect translation (ITr). To counter the traditional disinterest of Translation Studies in researching ITr, it explores and showcases what research on the topic can do for our discipline as a whole. This introductory article prepares the ground for and provides an… read more
2021 Indirect translation Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 113–119 | Article
2018 Chapter 1.7. Translation and adjacent concepts A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects, D’hulst, Lieven and Yves Gambier (eds.), pp. 75–83 | Chapter
2018 Friend and foe: On the role of indirect literary translation in the construction of the conflicting images of communist Poland in para-fascist Portugal Target 30:3, pp. 345–387 | Article
Previous research suggests that in Salazar’s Portugal, Soviet Poland was portrayed as both a friend and a foe. This article argues that these conflicting images are partly due to distinct discourses that reached Portugal through translations of Polish literature. Ultimately, it aims to give… read more
2013 Patterns in the external history of Portuguese collections with translations of Polish literature (1855–2009): An exploratory case study Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries), Seruya, Teresa, Lieven D’hulst, Alexandra Assis Rosa and Maria Lin Moniz (eds.), pp. 153–170 | Article
This paper sets out to identify and analyse patterns in the external history of Portuguese collections with translations of Polish literature between 1855 and 2009. By doing so, it will provide preliminary insights into how these collections have presented Polish literature to the Portuguese… read more
2012 Patterns in (in)directness: An exploratory case study in the external history of Portuguese translations of Polish literature (1855–2010) Target 24:2, pp. 310–337 | Article
The goal of this descriptive, exploratory paper is to identify and analyse patterns in a case study of direct and indirect literary transfer from Poland to Portugal between 1855 and 2010. By doing so, the paper intends to contribute to a deeper understanding of indirect translation. Firstly,… read more