Interdisciplinary Translation Research Articles

Interaction Between Gender and Translation (1995-2022): A Systematic Literature Review

Although the link between gender and translation has been recognized and reaffirmed, research on the interaction between them remains fragmented. This study aims to examine the research foci of the interaction between gender and translation. Specifically, it brings these insights together to identify opportunities for future research. A systematic literature review was conducted based on the PRISMA 2020 statement. This review includes 50 journal articles indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases ranging from 1995 to 2022. The synthesis identifies five main topics of the impact gender has on translation: (a) gender affiliation of translators/interpreters; (b) LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) identities; (c) sexuality of characters; (d) feminist and patriarchal ideologies; and (e) cultural gender conventions, as well as four topics of the impact of translation on gender: (a) gender (stereotypical) portrayals of fictional characters; (b) gendered language and meanings; (c) LGBTQI identities; and (d) LGBTQI ideologies. The results support the interplay of translation and gender issues. While the impact of translation on gender and vice versa is largely constant across studies, there are differences in how translation affects gender and vice versa. Moreover, various reasons have been highlighted to elucidate the intricacy of the interaction. This review also offers suggestions for further research on this topic, as well as potentially provides implications for interdisciplinary translation studies.

"CHALLENGES OF LEGAL TRANSLATION: SPECIFIC PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES IDENTIFIED THROUGH A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP "

This paper proposes to highlight the challenges encountered by students in Translation studies and/ or (legal) translators in translating legal texts relating to Civil law (Family law) as a direct result of investigating specific problems and strategies. The content focuses on the identification and the analysis of the pragmatic, linguistic, cultural and text-specific problems and their replication in strategies used in an interdisciplinary translation approach through a virtual legal translation workshop. Furthermore, this paper intends to outline the expected findings of the above-mentioned virtual legal translation workshop: the academic and professional validation of theoretical ideas brought in different practices usable in legal translation activities.

Research on the Cultivation of Interdisciplinary Translation Talents in the Energy Field---Take Colleges and Universities in Southwest China as Examples

With "the Belt and Road Initiative", China's energy cooperation with countries along the route has deepened, and the shortage of high-quality interdisciplinary translation talents in energy field has become increasingly obvious. To accelerate the development of "the Belt and Road Initiative" and improve international energy cooperation, the initiative has put forward new requirements for interdisciplinary translation talents in the energy field. This paper analyzes the current situation and problems of cultivating interdisciplinary translation talents in the energy field, and then puts forward some thoughts on the cultivation of interdisciplinary translation talents in the energy field.

《亞太跨學科翻譯研究》（2015-2022）載文量化分析

Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Translation Studies, taken the promotion of multicultural exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region as its duty, has published 11volumes in total from 2015 to 2022. This paper, based on the data of 11 volumes, analyzed the six fronts of this journal, including article quantity and particle pages, downloads and citations, author’s title and organization, article quantity of funded projects, columns and selected topic trends as well as keyword cloud. This article aims to have a good understanding of its current development, column planning and article topic selection according to its publishing principle and self-orientation, in order to make its evolution and trends clear provide reference data to potential authors and bring about inspiration to its future development.

Translating Nure-Nure Texts in Karonese Society Into English: Applying Translation Techniques

The aim of this study is to develop Molina & Albir’s (2002) translation technique in translating nure-nure texts of the Karonese language into English. The problems in the process of translating the source language (SL) into the target language (TL) are the equivalences of the SL in the TL. The data are collected from Suka’s (2014) book entitled Ranan Adat: Orat Nggeluh, Rikut Bicara Kalak Karo ope Tubuh seh Idilo Dibata. Conceptual research was applied to get the data while translation and critical discourse analysis were used to analyze the data. The authors translated twenty-two data samples from the SL into the TL. They used Molina & Albir’s (2002) translation technique to translate metaphors, stylistic repetition, a poem, politeness, and cultural terms in the nure-nure text into English. The study reveals ndu, -ta, and kam are polite pronouns in the Karonese language but they are not found in English. The translation techniques of adaptation, description, transposition, calque, generalization, literal translation, modulation, compensation, amplification, and borrowing were applied when translating the SL into the TL. The authors propose using the interdisciplinary translation technique to develop Molina & Albir’s (2002) translation technique as an alternative technique to overcome the problems of equivalences in a TL.

Developing Culturally Effective Strategies for Chinese to English Geotourism Translation by Corpus-Based Interdisciplinary Translation Analysis

As a new field of translation with its own special genre, geotourism has not yet been firmly established because geotourism translations are currently not of a sufficient professional standard. This situation does not provide geotourists with the genre’s full target of enjoyment, learning and engagement through science popularisation tourism activities. In order to better meet these three definitive purposes in geotourism, this study analyses the three basic categories of geotourism—geological features (GFs), geological processes (GPs) and cultural elements (CEs)—to determine effective strategies of geotourism translation from Chinese into English. Challenges in translation include scientific jargon, language style and cultural gaps. In this article, the advantages of Hu’s Eco-translatology theory are explained and used for minimising translation problems; and the corpus linguistics method, superior for quantitative and qualitative analysis, is utilised. As well, digital auxiliary tools Tmxmall (2014) and Sketch Engine (2003) were employed to facilitate corpus research. Through analysis, effective strategies in each of the key geotourism categories, GFs, GPs and CEs, were identified, shaped and recommended for future translators’ attention. In the results, literal translation, transliteration and free translation, addition and use of official UNESCO names were recommended to render GFs. Division and shift translation, literal translation and shift and division were recommended for GPs. Literal translation, transliteration and free translation and addition were recommended for CEs. Since this is an initial investigation in the genre of geotourism, this study has attempted to build a model platform for future study and wider research in geotourism translation and translation pedagogy for the improvement of geotourism translation quality.

The Possibility of Translation Theory by Xu Yuanchong from a Translation-Semiotics Perspective

As a linguistic behavior, translation bring culture and language to another. We have undergone a translation theory from faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance, the sublimed adaption. Up to now, we have a new trend, the inter-disciplinary translation, such as the semiotic perspective. In this study, we try to make an analysis on Xu Yuanchong’s translation theory from the translation semiotics perspective in the framework of Pierce’s firstness, secondness and thirdness. In addition, we take one translated poem as one example for further semiotics analysis. In the end, we can have a new perspective to make an analysis on Xu Yuanchong’s translated poems and his translation theory in the framework of semiotic translation.

Stridon’s Aims

The aim of Stridon – Journal of Studies in Translation and Interpreting is to advance research in translation- and interpreting-related phenomena, and to publish articles on the theoretical, descriptive and applied research within the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Besides established authors, we will also welcome articles by new voices in the field, focusing not only on translation and interpreting, but also on interdisciplinary translation- and interpreting-related sociological, literary, cultural, historical, educational and contrastive topics. Stridon’s particular aim is to present the research involving peripheral languages and languages of limited distribution, and the research focusing or originating from central or southeastern Europe. Since, traditionally, Translation and Interpreting Studies research has prioritised the focal over the marginal, this journal would like to give voice to the perspective of the Other in Translation Studies.

Algunos apuntes sobre desacuerdos teóricos interdisciplinarios entre el derecho y la economía

The starting point of this essay is the question “Under what conditions is the legal practitioner justified in ignoring the economic point of view?”. This question leads to an inquiry of the relation between the disagreements economists have with the law and theoretical disagreements. The essay makes two main claims. First, the disagreements economists have with the law can originate a particular kind of theoretical disagreement – an interdisciplinary theoretical disagreement. Interdisciplinary theoretical disagreements pre- suppose the solution of a translation problem from economics into law. The translation problem is solved when a proposition of economics becomes part of the external justification of a legal norm. It makes sense to use the expression «interdisciplinary translation» because meaning is moved from one practice to another. Second, the various positions with regard to the relation between law and morality are also a problem of interdisciplinary translation – this time from morality to law. In light of this insight, the essay concludes with the hope of more interest by philosophers of law and legal theorists for the relation between law and economics.

Analysis of specialized Terminology for the interdisciplinary Translation of a Webinar on medical Subjects: the Case of Rheumatoid Arthritis Pathophysiology (signs and symptoms)

La traducción interdisciplinar audiovisual-médica es un campo de la traducción poco explorado hasta el momento. Si bien es cierto que la traducción audiovisual es relativamente joven, la médica no lo es tanto. Es obvio que se necesitan ciertas habilidades y conocimientos para traducir un texto especializado: si es médico, conocimientos en traducción médica; si es jurídico, en traducción jurídica. Para su labor, el traductor necesitará, entre otros, analizar la terminología especializada presente en el texto. En el presente artículo se presenta un modelo de clasificación de términos que organiza la terminología y facilita su correcto análisis. Con este artículo se pretende, también, dar visibilidad a la traducción de webinarios, pues pueden aportar información y conocimientos muy beneficiosos para la sociedad.

Epigenetic metaphors: an interdisciplinary translation of encoding and decoding

Looking at the new and often disputed science of epigenetics, we examined the challenges faced by scientists when they communicate scientific research to the public. We focused on the use of metaphors to illustrate notions of epigenetics and genetics. We studied the “encoding” by epigeneticists and “decoding” in focus groups with diverse backgrounds. We observed considerable overlap in the dominant metaphors favored by both researchers and the lay public. However, the groups differed markedly in their interpretations of which metaphors aided understanding or not. We conclude by discussing the role of metaphors and their interpretations in the context of a shift from pre-deterministic genomic metaphors to more active, dynamic and nuanced epigenetic metaphors. These reflections on the choice of metaphors and differences in encoding/decoding are important for science communication and scientific boundary-maintenance.

European English and the translation of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure

Abstract The English translation of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure (Gialuz, Lupária, and Scarpa 2014) represents a step forward in fostering judicial and police cooperation in Europe. This is made possible by making the content of the Code accessible to a wide English-speaking audience. Given the informative purpose of the translation (Cao 2007), whose intended readers are mainly European citizens, the target language chosen by the translation team is European English, i.e. the English used in European Union texts, the international English used in Council of Europe texts, the English found in the translations of the Codes of Criminal Procedure of other European countries and the English used by law scholars (Scarpa, Peruzzo, and Pontrandolfo 2014). The European continent is a multidimensional and multilayered legal reality in which different languages co-exist and legal transplants and terminological transfers are commonplace. Based on such premises, however, the embeddedness of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the Italian legal system poses several translation difficulties, especially in the search for supranational/international English translation equivalents for terms that refer to nationally developed legal concepts. For these terms, established translation equivalents are not necessarily available. The aims of this paper are threefold: to describe the features of the interdisciplinary translation team consisting of ten members (linguists and lawyers), to lay out the peculiarities of the translation process in which professionals with a different background were involved, and to illustrate the methodology applied as regards terminological choices. To do so, a concrete example from the translated text will be provided to lay out the challenges faced and the solution adopted by the translation team.

Design tools for interdisciplinary translation of material experiences

Designers increasingly have the opportunity to influence the development of materials as they emerge from the laboratory. In order for this to be successful, designers need to be able to communicate effectively with materials scientists so that materials can be developed with desired functionalities and properties. This paper reviews evidence in favour of using isomorphic sets of material stimuli as tools to bridge the disciplinary gap between designers and materials scientists. We show how these isomorphic sets and their accompanying experiments can be used to translate between the two communities, and to systematically explore the relationship between the technical attributes of materials and subjective experiences of their sound, taste and feel. This paper also explores the limitations of psychophysical approaches and other quantitative techniques for elucidating material experience, and suggests new possibilities for interdisciplinary collaborations that draw on ethnographic approaches.

Adapting Guidère, M. (2003)

Translation and localization are intertwined concepts that can only be fully appreciated across both the textual and visual fields simultaneously. This is especially true in advertising, where products and their accompanying visual and textual representations are routinely translated and localized across languages and cultures. This paper explicitly presents the need for translators to possess the capacity for both textual and visual translation, a need that must be reflected in translation curricula in formal education. In this paper, Guidere’s (2003) methods for textual and graphical, or visual, translation is presented in the context of product localization. These methods are adapted for this paper to include adaptations made for overall coherence, or the ways in which the textual and graphical translations ‘speak’ to one another. We then employ these methods in the context of advertisements from Nikon (an example of textual translation with little graphical localization across cultures), FIFA Weekly (an example of a culturally specific graphical translation and localization method), and McDonald’s (an example of a sophisticated graphical translation and localization method across cultures). It is through these advertisements that we present the usefulness of this adapted method and the need for graphical and textual translators. Further, we suggest the need for an expanded and highly interdisciplinary translation studies curriculum, one that provides capacity for localized understanding, and the presentation of visual, textual, and other semiotic resources towards an effective conveyance of meaning.

An interdisciplinary platform for information behavior research in the liberal arts hobby

Purpose– The liberal arts hobby is a leisure pursuit that entails the systematic and fervent pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the liberal arts hobby as a setting for information behavior research.Design/methodology/approach– The method of interdisciplinary translation work is used to relate existing research from the specialties of leisure studies, adult education, and information behavior. Drawing from leisure studies, the liberal arts hobby is presented within the context of the serious leisure perspective, a theoretical framework of leisure. Also, relevant research.Findings– The basic informational features of the liberal arts hobby and adult learning project are discussed in terms of three issues of current interest within information behavior scholarship. The issues are: first, social metatheory and the ideal level of analysis; second, time and information behavior; and third, information behavior in pleasurable and profound contexts.Research limitations/implications– Research into everyday life, serious leisure and hobbies is extended and methodological tools are provided.Practical implications– Information professionals, such as public librarians or systems designers, will have a better understanding of the information experience of a popular hobby group and be better able to meet their information needs.Social implications– Awareness and understanding of the liberal arts hobby will be increased across the field of information science, thereby creating a better alignment between the field and society.Originality/value– The paper is the first to establish an interdisciplinary starting point for information behavior research in the liberal arts hobby.

From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation

This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Raphael Confiant’s 1994 L’allee des soupirs . This novel fictionalizes the 1959 riots in Martinique while simultaneously creating characters who debate the relative merits of modes of expression capable of capturing the linguistic, cultural, and racial hybridity of creolite in literature. Confiant translates into fictional terms important precepts on Caribbean literary production set out in Eloge de la creolite , which Confiant wrote with Patrick Chamoiseau and Jean Bernabe. By transforming the aesthetic problems taken up in Eloge into a thoroughly creolized novel that deals with the hybridized messiness of everyday life, Confiant presents a text that ethnographically allegorizes its own conditions of production. This allegorization mobilizes a process the essay calls “interdisciplinary translation,” which relies on an ongoing process of conversion between ethnographic and literary modes of representation.

Some remarks on the sociology of translation: A reflection on the global production and circulation of sociological works

This article explores the emerging field of the sociology of translation and, at the same time, outlines the relevance of translation for sociology with respect to the global production and circulation of sociological works. Drawing on already existing accounts developed in interdisciplinary translation studies, it is argued that an awareness of the complex nature of translation is fundamental for a self-understanding of the sociological endeavour. The article is divided into three main parts which deal, first, with the role of translation in the international circulation of social theory and its importance for an intellectual history of the discipline; second, its intervention in sociological research and the methodological implications thereof, and third, with a reflexive approach to translation in the sociological field.

Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America , and: Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women (review)

Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America. By T. Gregory Garvey. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 263. Cloth, $39.95.)Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. Edited by Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Pp. x, 299. Cloth, $60.00; Paper, $27.95.)Reviewed by R. Bryan BademanThe two books reviewed here have come from English departments and bear several of the trademarks of that discipline. T. Gregory Garvey's Creating the Culture of Reform is a partly theoretical project that foregrounds its contributions to political and cultural theory. While Garvey relies on the work of historians in piecing together the history on which his work is based, his primary interlocutors are readers of Jurgen Habermas, John Rawls, and their critics. The essays in Our Sisters' Keepers are not so rigorously theoretical in their aims or approach, but they too, by an understandable disciplinary bias, are less engaged with (or up to date on) historical narratives and more interested in the literary contributions of a cohort of nineteenth-century female benevolence writers.1 As a result, some of the arguments made in both books will seem to historians already well established, while others stand in need of some interdisciplinary translation. Nevertheless, intellectual and cultural historians will find much in these pages from which to benefit. Garvey highlights an important genealogy for American democracy, and the volume on benevolence literature unpacks a distinctive articulation of American selfhood. Besides their disciplinary origins, the two books seem to have little in common - one being an exercise in historically grounded political theory, and the other taking a close and careful look at a literary genre that despite its contemporary pervasiveness no longer attracts much attention. That being said, the books do advance arguments that allow for fruitful comparison.The title of Garvey's book is precise if somewhat opaque to nonspecialists. Garvey is principally interested in the early nineteenth-century emergence of a of reform, which, while incapable of arresting the accelerating political polarization in the young nation, nonetheless created instruments of public dialogue that addressed the nation's most threatening and divisive questions (1). Garvey's culture of is thus fundamentally a mode of debate, rather than a group of reformers or their institutions. And he argues that this culture's significance lies in its bringing about a right of access to critical public discourse, which played a decisive role in emerging definitions of American equality and citizenship (199).According to Garvey, the of reform originated in the religious disestablishment struggles of the Revolutionary years. As Americans wrestled with social fragmentation and moral uncertainty, they turned first to democratic religion - evangelical revivals, in particular - to reassure themselves of cosmic order. In so doing, evangelicals pioneered certain modes of publicity that would later flourish specifically religious spheres (1). For Garvey, although religious contexts were important seedbeds for reform, religious institutions could not ultimately address the full range of social divisions in America, so the of reform quickly spilled over into civic arenas. Indeed, even specifically religious debates like the Unitarian controversy soon migrated to the pluralistic public sphere as both sides sought public legitimacy. Thus while the of reform emerged in a religious context, religious leaders and institutions simply could not contain it. Still, according to Garvey, reform's remained indebted to evangelical Christianity's momentum and spiritual and salvine goals, even as it carried these things outside the boundaries of religion. …

Structuralism and Its Heuristic Implications

ed pattern of change over time. In contrast to Piaget's ultimate appeal to God, Foucault committed himself only to limit as a principle of causation. Consequently, he expressly rejected possibility of a transcendental consciousness, locating regulative power of practices in practices themselves. The rules of formation were considered conditions of existence, coexistence, maintenance, modification, and disappearance within a given discursive formation (1972, p. 38). Dreyfus and Rabinow (1982) accused Foucault of making implausible and unjustified claims regarding prescriptive power of description (p. 96), arguing that it is not legitimate to hypostatize observed formal regularities which describe discursive formations into conditions of these formations' existence (p. 83). Further, they claimed that the causal power attributed to rules governing discursive systems is unintelligible . How, they asked, do discursive practices .form and govern speakers and statements, subjects, and objects they take to be meaningful? (p. xx). Foucault's answer is, by limiting them. According to Foucault's view, form depends on presence of certain possibilities and absence of others. The constraints of knowledge and discourse are limits of possibilities of a given time. Structure is a function of limit. Heuristic Implications of Structuralism Structuralism points to viability of interdisciplinary translation and algorithmic learning. If there is unity of underlying structure, and if knowledge were organized hierarchically according to universal principles, it would be possible to trace transdisciplinary path of a concept; that is, analogous phenomena could be identified in what presently are considered different fields. Thus, truths obtained in one domain could be seen to hold for all others, given proper transmutation of form. Similarly, formal relations could be learned in abstract, and then applied to particular cases. In education, this means that instruction could proceed in opposite direction from present convention (specific to general), so that abstract relations and general principles would form basis for instruction in particulars.