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Lawyer Evaluation in Action: Negotiating Justice
This chapter investigates how the rational discourse of lawyer evaluation performs its function in relation to legal dispute resolution or criminal...
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Censorship and Manipulation in Audiovisual Translation
This chapter provides a critical survey of the research on censorship and manipulation in audiovisual translation. Institutional censorship practices...
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A Corpus-Assisted Study of Nominalization in Translated and Non-translated Judgments
This exploratory study examines nominalizations in judgments by comparing three comparable corpora, the translated English judgment corpus (Hong Kong...
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Cloud Technologies in Media Localisation (Subtitling and Revoicing)
The media localisation industry has experienced an increasing presence of cloud-based technologies, leading many stakeholders to embrace and...
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The Impact of Style on the Quality of Writing and Translation
The “secret” of style seems easy and straightforward; yet, it is hard to put in practice. For years, it has had many distinguished advocates: Strunk...
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“Creative Treason” as a Key to Medio-Translatology: Circulation and Controversies
“Creative Treason”, a key concept in Medio-translatology, has been widely disseminated and caused multiple controversies among Chinese academia. It...
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Cybercrime
In this chapter, which is the last chapter in the book, cybercrimes along with their types, such as those targeting persons, those against property,...
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Emblematic Language: A Multilingual Perspective on Wulfstan’s English and Latin Baptismal Homilies
Prominent as both a religious and legal figure, the writings of archbishop Wulfstan (d. 1023) can elude easy categorization. They are, moreover,...
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Juggling the development of translator competence and academic assessment
In this chapter we will outline how, over the last 33 years at the Translation and Interpreting Faculty of the University of Granada, we have blended...
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The Story of Gandhi’s “Experiments with Truth”
An Autobiography, or The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the best-known of Gandhi’s writings and its continued popularity testifies to the...
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Healthcare Interpreting Training: Present and Future at Spanish Universities
The number of Spanish universities offering translation and interpretation studies has grown exponentially over the last decades. At present more...
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Ukraine: Training Interpreters and Translators in Times of Crises: A Case Study of an Ukrainian University Working Through the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War
This chapter focuses on describing our adaptation to remote interpreter training in conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the adjustment of our...
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Introduction: Translating and Mediating Feminisms, Travelling Women’s Movements
This study investigates how the emergence of a transnational civil society in the decades before the outbreak of the First World War was supported...
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Recent Development and Future Directions of Translation and Interpreting Education in China’s Mainland
Translation and interpreting education in China’s Mainland came into being with China’s policy of reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, and has...
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Professional Standards and Norms of Translation: Reflections from the Perspective of the Sociology of Law
As the only national professional association, Translators’ Association of China (TAC), along with other relevant departments and institutions,...
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Setting the Scene
With the ongoing digital transformation and new demands that the Covid-19 pandemic has put on society, all professional activities are gaining a new...
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Computational Terminology
This chapter introduces the reader to the concept of computational terminology, i.e., to automatic ways of managing domain-specific vocabulary. The...
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Fuzziness and Violation of Norms in Chinese Legislative Language
China has the largest population in the world and is also a major legislation power. Since the reform and opening up more than 30 years ago, people’s...
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‘Suffragettes’ in Germany: Translating Militancy
This chapter examines Schirmacher’s 160-page history of the suffragette movement (which was to remain the only German book on the subject for several...
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Health and Safety Discourse in Polish and English: A Pragmalinguistic Perspective of COVID-19 Communication
This chapter analyses safety instructions, related to COVID-19 mitigation measures, by comparing the English versions of safety instructions with...