Translation and Interpreting Studies | The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association

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Editors
ORCID logoBrian James Baer | Kent State University
ORCID logoChristopher D. Mellinger | University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Managing Editor
ORCID logoLaura Gasca Jiménez | Fairfield University
Review Editor
ORCID logoJavier de la Morena-Corrales | Kent State University
Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) is a peer-reviewed journal designed to disseminate knowledge and research relevant to all areas of language mediation. TIS seeks to address broad, common concerns among scholars working in various areas of Translation and Interpreting Studies, while encouraging sound empirical research that could serve as a bridge between academics and practitioners. The journal is also dedicated to facilitating communication among those who may be working on related subjects in other fields, from Comparative Literature to Information Science. Finally, TIS is a forum for the dissemination in English translation of relevant scholarly research originally published in languages other than English. TIS is the official journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).

TIS publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 1932-2798 | E-ISSN: 1876-2700
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tis
Latest articles

22 November 2024

  • Activist interpreting in abortion clinics : Emotional challenges and self-care strategies
    Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk , Sonja Pöllabauer Viktoria Straczek-Helios
  • Reading Confucius in translation : An empirical study of western academic readers’ responses to English translations of The Analects
    Youlan Tao Wenlu Li
  • 20 September 2024

  • Political motivation in media interpreting : 2020 US presidential debates livestreamed by two Taiwanese TV stations
    Bo Li
  • 27 August 2024

  • Linguistic and cultural adaptation of the National Quality of Life Survey in Colombia for the deaf population
    Laura Catalina Izquierdo Martínez , Angela Martínez-R , Irene Strasly Minerva Rivas Velarde | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 302–322
  • 28 May 2024

  • The translational encounter with cultural China
    Chen Lin
  • 23 April 2024

  • Poetic content [Poeticheskoe soderzhanie] : The first chapter of Efim Etkind’s Poetry and Translation [Poeziia i perevod]
    Efim Etkind Suzanne Eade Roberts | TIS 19:1 (2024) pp. 136–169
  • 16 April 2024

  • Introduction to translating Etkind
    Suzanne Eade Roberts | TIS 19:1 (2024) pp. 132–135
  • 15 April 2024

  • Translationality : A transformational concept for translation studies?
    Matt Valler | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 323–333
  • 29 March 2024

  • Authenticating otherness : The English translation of Chinese thinking on painting
    Ge Song
  • 22 March 2024

  • Changes in the translator’s position on the author and readers : A feminist scholar’s peritexts in her translation of Three Guineas
    Sang-Bin Lee | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 190–211
  • Effect of word order asymmetry on the cognitive load of English–Chinese sight translation : Evidence from eye movement data
    Xingcheng Ma Dechao Li | TIS 19:1 (2024) pp. 105–131
  • “Please make sure we don’t get this interpreter again” : Australian legal aid lawyers’ experience of working with interpreters
    Han Xu | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 257–276
  • MT error detection and correction by Chinese language learners
    Qi Zhang , Caitríona Osborne Joss Moorkens | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 277–301
  • 1 December 2023

  • How a translation impacts its translator : A case study of Timothy Richard’s Chinese translation of Looking Backward
    Huarui Guo
  • Cultural mediation in crisis translation : A snapshot of the citizen translator in China’s Greater Bay Area during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Shuyin Zhang , Yingyi Zhuang Liwen Chang | TIS 18:2 (2023) pp. 301–324
  • 27 November 2023

  • Fan translation and affective mediation : A study of Hiddles’ Translation Army of China
    Junru Mo Haina Jin | TIS 18:2 (2023) pp. 261–279
  • 16 November 2023

  • Introduction : Revisiting mediation in translation and interpreting
    Caiwen Wang Raquel de Pedro Ricoy | TIS 18:2 (2023) pp. 255–260
  • 9 November 2023

  • Probing the cognitive load of consecutive interpreters : A corpus-based study
    Riccardo Moratto Zhimiao Yang | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 234–256
  • 6 November 2023

  • Mediatorship in the clash of hegemonic and counter publics : The curious case of Heartstopper in Turkey
    Göksenin Abdal Büşra Yaman | TIS 18:2 (2023) pp. 280–300
  • 2 November 2023

  • The translator’s imperial experience and the dual role of translation : The reception of George Jamieson’s translation of the Qing Code
    Rui Liu | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 171–189
  • 23 October 2023

  • Beyond cannibalism : The metaphor of anthropophagy as a conceptual refraction in translation studies
    Gabriel Borowski | TIS 19:1 (2024) pp. 21–32
  • 20 June 2023

  • Translation norms and bilingual dictionaries : A case study of the North Korean Jo-Yeong Sajeon [Korean–English Dictionary]
    Hyongrae Kim | TIS 19:1 (2024) p. 81
  • 15 June 2023

  • Teaching the art of “judicious” translators’ interventions
    Hélène Jaccomard | TIS 19:2 (2024) pp. 212–233
  • 6 June 2023

  • Text as haunt : The spectrality of translation
    Kelly Washbourne Camelly Cruz-Martes | TIS 19:1 (2024) pp. 1–20
  • IssuesOnline-first articles

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    Board
    Editorial Board
    ORCID logoClaudia V. Angelelli | Heriot-Watt University
    ORCID logoKathryn Batchelor | University College London
    Marie-Alice Belle | Université de Montréal
    ORCID logoAgnieszka Chmiel | Adam Mickiewicz University
    ORCID logoSonia Colina | The University of Arizona
    Gabriel González Núñez | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    ORCID logoJi-Hae Kang | Ajou University
    Marianne Mason | James Madison University
    ORCID logoNike K. Pokorn | University of Ljubljana
    Wen Ren | Beijing Foreign Studies University
    José Santaemilia-Ruiz | Universitat de València
    ORCID logoRafael Y. Schögler | University of Graz
    ORCID logoTarek Shamma | SUNY Binghamton
    ORCID logoJames St. André | Chinese University of Hong Kong
    ORCID logoRebecca Tipton | University of Manchester
    ORCID logoElisabet Tiselius | Stockholm University
    ORCID logoSergey Tyulenev | University of Durham
    Consulting Statistician
    ORCID logoThomas A. Hanson | Butler University
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    Guidelines

    Submission Guidelines

    Three types of submissions will be considered for publication in TIS:
    •    Scholarly articles
    •    Translation scholarship in translation
    •    Review essays

    All submissions should be in English.

    Article Submissions

    1. Submissions should be between 5000 and 6500 words, exclusive of bibliography. Please contact the editor concerning submissions that do not fit within these word limits.

    2. All submissions should conform to the journal style sheet. See below.

    3. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site.

    4. The review process will take from 6 months. If a disagreement among the reviewers requires that the submission be sent out to a third reviewer, the author will be notified of any delay.

    Translation Scholarship in Translation  

    1. Translations of scholarly works into English should be submitted with a copy of the source text, a short introduction (100-500 words) by the translator, explaining the importance of the source author’s work to Translation and Interpreting Studies, as well as permission to publish;

    2. Submissions should be between 5000 and 6500 words, exclusive of bibliography. Please contact the editor concerning submissions that do not fit within these words limits;

    3. All submissions of this kind should conform to the journal style sheet. See below.

    Review Essays

    1. Review essays should consider three or more scholarly works in a single field or in related fields of Translation and Interpreting Studies and situate them within a disciplinary context;

    2. The length of review essays should be between 1000 and 3000 words;

    3. All review essays should conform to the journal style sheet.

    Formatting Guidelines

    For the benefit of production efficiency, the publisher and the editor ask you to follow the following submission guidelines strictly. Papers that do not follow these guidelines will be returned to the author.

    Contributions should be consistent in their use of language and spelling. If you are not a native speaker of the language in which you have written your contribution, it is advised to have your text checked by a native speaker.

    When submitting the final manuscript to the journal, please include: a one-paragraph abstract, approximately five keywords, a short professional biography of the author, and a current mailing address.

    Electronic files

    Files: Please take care that you supply all the files, text as well as graphic files, used in the creation of the manuscript, and be sure to submit the final version of the manuscript. And please delete any personal comments so that these will not mistakenly be typeset and check that all files are readable.

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    Software: Word (PC/Mac) is preferred. If you intend to use other word processing software, please contact the editors first.

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    Lay-out

    In order to facilitate smooth production it is important that you follow the journal’s style for consistency. In this respect we advise you to make use of our electronic styles in addition to these guidelines.

    Do not add running heads, implement full justification or hyphen-ation, or the exact margin settings as used by Benjamins in printing. It is sufficient to characterize elements such as examples, quotations, tables, headings etc. in the formatting in a clear and consistent way, so that they can be identified and formatted in the style of the journal.

    Formatting that should be supplied by you is the formatting of references (see below) and font enhancements (such as italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc.) in the text.

    Whatever formatting or style conventions are employed, please be consistent.

    Tables and figures: All tables, trees and figures must fit within the following page size (if necessary, after – limited – reduction) and should still be legible at this size:

    12 cm (4.73”) x 20 cm (7.87”).

    Suggested font setting for tables: Times Roman 10 pts (absolute minimum: 8 pts).

    Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively, provided with appropriate captions and should be referred to in the main text in this manner, e.g., “in table 2”, but never like this “in the following table: “. Please indicate the preferred position of the table or figure in the text.

    Running heads: Please do not include running heads with your article. However, in case of a long title please suggest a short one for the running head (max. 55 characters) on the cover sheet of your contribution.

    Emphasis and foreign words: Use italics for foreign language, highlighting and emphasis. Bold should be used only for highlighting within italics and for headings. Please refrain from the use of FULL CAPS (except for focal stress and abbreviations) and underlining (except for highlighting within examples, as an alternative for boldface), unless this is a strict convention in your field of research. For terms or expressions (e.g., ‘context of situation’) please use single quotes. For glosses of citation forms, use double quotes.

    Transliteration: Please transliterate into English any examples from languages that use a non-Latin script, using the appropriate transliteration system (ISO or LOC).

    Symbols and special characters: In case you have no access to certain characters, we advise you to use a clear convention to mark these characters. You can use our font table (Appendix A) or any other regular table to list the correspondences between your symbols and the required ones. If you use any phonetic characters, please mark these by the use of a character style if possible. This will enable us to retrieve those characters in your document.

    Chapters and headings: Chapters or articles should be reasonably divided into sections and, if necessary, into sub-sections. If you cannot use the electronic styles, please mark the headings as follows:

    Level 1 = bold italics, 1 line space before, section number flush left. Text immediately below .

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    Level 3ff = italics, 1 line space before, section number flush left. Heading ends with a full stop, with the text following on the same line.

    Numbering should be in arabic numerals; no italics; no dot after the last number, except for level 1 headings.

    Quotations: In the main text quotations should be given in double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 3 lines should be indented left and right, without quotations marks and with the appropriate reference to the source. They should be set off from the main text by a line of space above and below.

    Listings: Should not be indented. If numbered, please number as follows:

    1. ..................... or a. .......................

    2. ..................... or b. .......................

    Listings that run on with the main text can be numbered in parentheses: (1).............., (2)............., etc.

    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 contribution is written should be in italics with an approximate translation. Between the original and the translation, glosses can be added. This interlinear gloss gets no punctuation and no highlighting. For the abbreviations in the interlinear gloss, CAPS or small caps can be used, which will be converted to small caps by our typesetters in final formatting.

    Please note that lines 1 and 2 are lined up through the use of spaces: it is essential that the number of elements in lines 1 and 2 match. If two words in the example correspond to one word in the gloss use a full stop to glue the two together (2a). Morphemes are seperated by hyphens (1, 2b).

    Every next level in the example gets one indent/tab.

    For full details see the Leipzig Glossing Rules.

    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.

    Article (in book):

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

    Article (in journal):

    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.

    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.

    Additional Style Guidance

    Please use in-text citations, numbered endnotes, and works cited.

    1.  Please do not justify the right margin of your manuscript or the electronic version on disk. Leave a ragged right margin.

    2.  Please double space everything, including quotations and footnotes.

    3.  Please use American spellings and punctuation, including

    4.  Section headers, if used, should simply be phrases with no numbers. Please restrict headers to three or four per essay. They may be italicized.

    5.  Miscellaneous

    Appendixes
    Appendixes should follow the References section.

    Author’s Submission Checklist
    When submitting the revised version of your accepted manuscript, in addition to following the guidelines above, please be sure that you also include:

    Proofing procedure

    The first author of a contribution will receive a PDF of first proofs of the article for correction via email and will be requested to return the corrections to the journal editor within 7 days of receipt. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.com which will enable you to read and print the file. Please limit corrections to the essential. It is at the publisher’s discretion not to implement substantial textual changes or to charge the author. If it is absolutely necessary to change larger chunks of text (i.e. more than just a few words), please submit the corrections separately (in Word).

    Please contact the journal editor if you cannot handle proofs for your article in electronic format (i.e., receive the proofs as a PDF-attachment at your email address, print them out, and return your corrections marked on the paper printout).

    Submission

    Translation and Interpreting Studies offers  online submission .

    Before submitting, please consult the  guidelines  and the  Short Guide to EM for Authors .

    If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors via e-mail: bbaer at kent.edu

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    Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement .

    Please also note the guidance on the use of (generative) AI in the statement.

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    Subjects

    Translation & Interpreting Studies

    Interpreting
    Translation Studies

    Main BIC Subject

    CFP: Translation & interpretation

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General