Our staff publish in a variety of areas of translation research. They contribute in particular to the Literary Translation and Intercultural Studies cluster, and the Intersemiotic Translation cluster.
(i) Literary Translation
- Translation and reception of Modern Chinese literature
- Translation of children's literature
Selected Publications
Todorova, M. (2021). “Western Balkans in Translated Children’s Literature: Location-Dependent Images of (Self)Representation.” Translation Spaces 10(1).
Yeung, J. (2019) “Translationese as Dissent: The Use of Translationese in Zhang Chengzhi’s History of the Soul and Yan Lianke’s The Four Books”. In Y. Sun and C. Song (Eds.), Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature. London and New York: Routledge.
(ii) Intersemiotic Translation
This cluster is concerned with intersemiotic contexts, where translation operates either between different semiotic systems, or interlingually within environments in which other semiotic factors such as spatial and visual elements exert a crucial influence upon interlingual translation. Our research interests focus mainly on the following areas:
- Translation in museums and heritage sites
- Film adaptation
- Audiovisual translation
Selected Publications
Neather, R.J. (2018) Museums, material culture, and cultural representations. In Sue-Ann Harding & Ovidi Carbonell Cortés (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture. London: Routledge, 361-378.
Neather, R.J. (2014) Visual paratexts in literary translation: Intersemiotic issues in the translation of classical Chinese literature. In Sandra Bermann & Catherine Porter (Eds.), A Companion to Translation Studies, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 504-515. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118613504.ch38
Yau, W.P. (2016) Revisiting the systemic approach to the study of film adaptation as intersemiotic translation. Translation Studies, 9(3), 256-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2016.1178595
Yau, W.P. (2014) Translation and film: Dubbing, subtitling, adaptation and remaking. In Sandra Bermann & Catherine Porter (Eds.), A Companion to Translation Studies, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 492-503. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118613504.ch37
(iii) Other areas of Translation Research
Beyond these key cluster-related research interests, Department staff also work in other areas including:
- Translation in the digital world
- Metaphor in translation
- Translation theory
Selected Publications
Shuttleworth, M. (in preparation) Dictionary of Translation Studies, 2nd Edition, London and New York: Routledge.
Shuttleworth, M. (2019) "Metaphor in translation – What do we know, and what do we still need to know?". In Richard Trim and Dorota Sliwa (eds) Metaphor and Translation, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 29-39.
Yu, C. (2020) "Insider, outsider or multiplex persona? Confessions of a digital ethnographer’s journey in translation studies", Journal of Specialised Translation 34, 9-31.
Yu, C. (2019) "Negotiating identity roles during the process of online collaborative translation: An ethnographic approach", Translation Studies 12(2), 231-52.
