Juritradictology is a new field of cross-displinary study based on both legal studies and linguistics. It gives an innovative approach on how to deal with providing translation services to vulnerable people and translating many types of texts in a gobal world.

Epistemic translation is the translation that transmits knowledge. Its purpose is to convince the addressee of the appropriateness and the relevance of the statement. This is the third type of translation.

In times of increasingly globalised criminal activities, this book investigates the discursive representations of crime and organised crime and looks at the translation of its complex definitions and notions from a multiple theoretical and methodological framework, encompassing studies in the field of linguistics, multimodal and discourse ...

What grammar should be taught to translators-to-be? Even though grammar is part of translation curricula, grammar teaching has been little discussed until now. The aim of this book is to fill the void by presenting studies by 16 specialists. They are divided in four themes reflecting four perspectives (translators, translation scholars, grammarians

The history of Translation Studies is full of striking comparisons used to describe bad translations. They range from the back of a tapestry to the sickly complexion of an invalid or to the image of a sinking ship – no matter what the image, these comparisons are used by translators to criticise their predecessors.

Translating can be playful, but can playful be translated? For translation experts, wordplay is the utmost challenge, whether it be a play on and with words (anagram, antanaclasis, pun, spoonerism, paronomasia...), a language play (portmanteau word, parodic subversion) or even a wordplay due to a language accident. This book provides a panorama...

Translation is everywhere today and is essential to allow people and cultures to communicate. Yet, this activity goes back thousands of years and it has not always assumed the same form, nor have the stakes always been the same. The history of translation, which is part and parcel of the discipline called "translation studies", makes it possible to

Despite the fact that translation plays a key role in news agencies' reporting of multilingual news, it has long been overlooked or simply ignored. This may be explained not only by journalists’ conceptions of the nature of translation, but also by the lack of contact between translation studies and communication studies.

The use of electronic corpora (or linguistic data banks) in translation and translation studies is more and more widespread.