https://artojs01.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/gateway/plugin/AnnouncementFeedGatewayPlugin/atomLinguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies: Announcements2023-09-05T11:33:11+02:00Open Journal Systems<p><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" src="https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/public/site/images/isabelle/couverture-lans.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="200" /><strong>Linguistica<em> Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies</em> (LANS – TTS) is an annual, peer-reviewed, open-access publication devoted to the study of translation and interpreting that is indexed in the Web of Science. </strong>The journal is not bound to any particular school of thought or academic group. Translation is understood to be a dynamic form of communication which has strong roots in the society and culture that produce it and is conceived as an integral part of the production and reproduction of culture in the broadest sense.</p> <p><strong>LANS-TTS is published once a year in December in the form of one thematic issue. There is no open issue (continuous publication). See About/Submissions.</strong></p> <p><strong>Our current ISSN is 2295-5739. Between 2002 (issue 1) and 2012 (issue 11), we were not in open access and had a different ISSN, i.e. 0304-2294. Please note that "Linguistica Antverpiensia" ceased to exist in 2001. <em>Our address is https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/index.</em> <br /></strong></p> <p>With the support of the <a href="https://www.fondationuniversitaire.be/en">University Foundation</a> and of the <a href="https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/translation-interpreting/">Trics Research group</a> (University of Antwerp)</p> <p><strong><img class="header__logo-image" src="https://www.fondationuniversitaire.be/sites/default/files/fus_vector_0.png" alt="Home" /></strong></p> <p> </p>https://artojs01.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/announcement/view/24Call for abstracts (and papers): Call for abstracts & papers: Machine and Computer-assisted Interpreting - LANS-TTS issue 24, publication year 20252023-09-05T11:33:11+02:00Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies<p><strong>Call for abstracts & papers: </strong><strong>M</strong><strong>achine </strong><strong>and Computer-assisted </strong><strong>I</strong><strong>nterpreting</strong></p> <p><strong>LANS-TTS issue 24, publication year 2025</strong></p> <p><strong><u>Guest editors</u></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Lu Xinchao, Beijing Foreign Studies University (China)</strong></li> <li><strong>Claudio Fantinuoli, Mainz University (Germany)</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Lu Xinchao</strong> is the Director of the Center for Research on Interpreting Practice and Pedagogy (CRIPP), a platform boasting an interdisciplinary team of interpreting practitioners, trainers, researchers, and experts in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine translation, as well as machine interpreting engineers and machine interpreting system developers from leading companies. By engaging researchers from the interpreting community and beyond, we aim to explore the most relevant themes related to interpreting, ranging from interpreting competence, processes, and products to the interpreting profession and its associated pedagogy, with a special interest in technology-motivated research themes, such as machine interpreting.</p> <p><strong>Claudio Fantinuoli</strong> is researcher and lecturer at the Mainz University/Germany and Head of Innovation at KUDO Inc. He conducts research in the field of Natural Language Processing applied to computer-assisted interpreting and automatic speech translation. He also teaches conference interpreting. In the past, he taught Technology and Interpreting at the University of Innsbruck and at the Postgraduate Center of the University of Vienna. He is the founder of InterpretBank, an AI-based tool for conference interpreters.</p> <p><strong><u>Machine and computer-assisted interpreting</u></strong></p> <p>During the last decades, information technology has played a central role in the domain of spoken language translation. Currently, there are two major lines of research on this area: machine interpreting and computer-assisted interpreting.</p> <p> </p> <p>Machine interpreting (automatic interpreting, speech translation, and speech-to-speech translation) refers to the practice, process, or product of real-time automatic or automated speech translation by a computerized system combining components of automatic speech recognition, machine translation, speech synthesis, and subtitling (Cho et al., 2013; Fügen et al., 2007; Horváthp, 2022; Müller et al., 2016; Stüker et al., 2012). It explores how machine systems perform interpreting, and studies in this field, which are most often conducted by scientists and engineers, deal with interpreting system design, improvement, and evaluation. The areas explored include interpreting system design (e.g., Fügen et al., 2007; Jekat, 1996; Luperfoy, 1996; Sakamoto et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2016); evaluation of machine interpreting quality (e.g., Hamon et al., 2009; Le et al., 2018; Stewart et al., 2018); improvement of interpreting rules or models (e.g., He et al., 2015; Siahbani et al., 2018); key issues and processes, such as sentence segmentation (e.g., Siahbani et al., 2018); incremental processing and latency (e.g., Fujita et al., 2013; Grissom II et al., 2014); and facial expression-based affective speech translation (Székely et al., 2014), corpus construction, and machine learning (e.g., Murata et al., 2010; Shimizu et al., 2013).</p> <p> </p> <p>Unlike machine translation research and development, which spans over half a century, machine interpreting is an emerging field that is far less explored. Machine interpreting was first tested in the 1980s and implemented in the 1990s; by early this century, researchers and developers in fields such as computer science, linguistics, speech processing, and artificial intelligence made it possible for machine systems to interpret dialogues for reservations and scheduling, travel conversations, broadcast news, parliament speeches, improvised speeches, and lectures (Nakamura, 2009; Pöchhacker, 2015, pp. 239–242, 2016, p. 194; Waibel & Fügen, 2008). It was listed by the MIT Technology Review in 2004 as one of the “10 emerging technologies that will change your world.” <br /><br /></p> <p>Computer-assisted interpreting tools are programs designed to support professional interpreters during the different phases of the interpreting workflows and encompass all tools that aims at integrating into the interpreter’s workstation the latest advances in Natural Language Processes and Artificial Intelligence. Among others, CAI tools support interpreters and interpreter managers in creating terminological resources, in managing and reusing event information for future tasks, in sharing such information among different stakeholders, to access information in real-time during the delivery of the interpreting service, and, more recently, to perform activities such as quality assurance and similar. </p> <p> </p> <p>By leveraging automatic speech recognition, transcription and transcript display, and machine translation, and key technologies or components of machine interpreting systems, students and professional interpreters can improve their interpreting accuracy, particularly with numbers and terms (e.g., Defrancq & Fantinuoli, 2020; Desmet et al., 2018; Sun et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2018; Fantinuoli, 2017).</p> <p> </p> <p>In the last two decades, impressive progress in automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and neural machine translation has given a major boost to the development of machine and computer-assisted interpreting systems, improving their robustness with increasingly uncertain and diversified source language features and environments and extending their domains, modes, and scenarios of application through enhanced acceptability, affordability, portability, and usability. Machine systems, whether assisting human interpreters or working alone, are reshaping and will continue to reshape the global ecosystem of interpreting—its practices, processes, products, profession, and pedagogy.</p> <p> </p> <p>With most of the existing literature being general introductions or theoretical explorations, there has been a dearth of empirical research (cf. Tripepi Winteringham, 2010; Fantinuoli, 2018; Oritz and Cavallo, 2019), and particularly of applied research, conducted by researchers, trainers, and practitioners in the interpreting community. Given this underrepresentation, many fundamental questions remain to be answered (cf. Mellinger, 2021; Prandi 2023).</p> <p> </p> <p>What is the state of the art of machine and computer-assisted interpreting development? What are the major bottlenecks and challenges in developing quality machine interpreting systems? What are the latest developments and innovations in machine interpreting processes (e.g., from three components to end-to-end, multimodal information processing and integration)? How do machine systems compare to human interpreters in terms of interpreting competences, processes, and products? How do computer-assisted systems interact or collaborate with human interpreters? What are the potential areas (domains, modes, patterns, etc.) of machine–human complementarity? How do machine interpreting and computer-assisted interpreting tools redefine interpreters’ roles and competences while reshaping interpreting pedagogy and practice and the language industry as a whole? What are the potential risks or ethical issues related to machine interpreting?</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>To respond to these questions, we need to examine and explore certain key themes, including (but not limited to) the following:</strong></p> <p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <ul> <li>machine interpreting system design (e.g., end-to-end interpreting systems; domain- or mode-specific vs. general interpreting systems; configurable systems adapted to communicative situations; working modes, domains, language combinations, and interpreting directions; and source language variables)</li> <li>innovative models, processes, or mechanisms of machine interpreting (e.g., processing of disfluencies, prosodic, pragmatic, and visual information; and low latency/concurrency of processing)</li> <li>interpreting corpus construction for machine learning</li> <li>machine interpreting quality evaluation</li> <li>evaluation of computer-assisted interpreting</li> <li>cognitive implications of use of computer-assisted interpreting tools in simultaneous interpretation</li> <li>use of computer-assisted interpreting tools in underexplored settings, such as liaison interpreting</li> <li>comparison of human and machine interpreting competences</li> <li>comparison of human and machine interpreting processes</li> <li>comparison of human and machine interpreting products</li> <li>machine-aided human interpreting (system design; operational procedures and mechanisms; and products and performances specific to different language combinations, event types, interpreting modes, domains, themes, source language variables, etc.)</li> <li>human-aided machine interpreting (system design; operational procedures and mechanisms; and products and performances specific to different language combinations, event types, interpreting modes, domains, themes, source language variables, etc.)</li> <li>advances of computer-assisted interpreting tools and their effectiveness</li> <li>emerging forms of hybridization in the delivery of interpreting services</li> <li>implications of machine and computer-assisted interpreting for the interpreting profession and the language industry (e.g., competition and collaboration between interpreters and machine systems, roles of machine systems and interpreters in linguistic/cultural mediation, new professional profiles and working conditions and remuneration)</li> <li>implications of machine and computer-assisted interpreting for interpreter training</li> <li>the ethics of artificial intelligence applied to machine interpreting and computer-assisted interpreting (e.g., training data bias and data quality, interpreting data ownership and privacy, and the transparency of machine system development and decision-making processes in machine interpreting)</li> </ul> <p>Selected papers will be submitted for a double-blind peer review as requested by LANS–TTS. </p> <p><strong>Practical information and deadlines</strong></p> <p>Proposals: Please submit <u>abstracts</u> of approximately 500–1000 words in <strong>English</strong>, including relevant references (not included in the word count), to <strong>both</strong> <strong>Lu Xinchao (</strong><a href="mailto:luxinchao@bfsu.edu.cn">luxinchao@bfsu.edu.cn</a>) and<strong> Claudio Fantinuoli (</strong><a href="https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/management/settings/fantinuoli@uni-mainz.de">fantinuoli@uni-mainz.de</a><strong>) </strong>in the same email.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Abstract deadline: 1 April 2024</strong></li> <li><strong>Acceptance of abstract proposals: 1 June 2024 </strong></li> <li><strong>Submission of papers: 1 November 2024 </strong></li> <li><strong>Acceptance of the papers: 1 March 2025 </strong></li> <li><strong>Submission of final versions of papers: 1 June 2025 </strong></li> <li><strong>Editorial work (proofreading and APA check): June to November 2025 </strong></li> <li><strong>Publication: December 2025</strong></li> </ul> <p>For all submissions (abstracts and full papers), authors have to use <strong>APA 7<sup>th</sup></strong>.</p> <p><a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapastyle.apa.org%2Fstyle-grammar-guidelines%2Freferences&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3ab13094908b4177f61708daee3ee4e2%7C0edca4720b7146e696c70a68c10dcb96%7C0%7C1%7C638084251162772534%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yoSC7nwupPa7nqdW5cjpkSKsdZuYbf7q0rRLss0MVwA%3D&reserved=0">References (apa.org)</a><br /><a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapastyle.apa.org%2Finstructional-aids%2Freference-guide.pdf&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3ab13094908b4177f61708daee3ee4e2%7C0edca4720b7146e696c70a68c10dcb96%7C0%7C1%7C638084251162772534%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WNkNh0TpnmNxVEapMfnxDz9ZjL3GQJPTyPE%2B4aZMKs8%3D&reserved=0">APA Style Reference Guide for Journal Articles, Books, and Edited Book Chapters, APA Style 7th Edition</a><br /><a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapastyle.apa.org%2Finstructional-aids%2Freference-examples.pdf&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3ab13094908b4177f61708daee3ee4e2%7C0edca4720b7146e696c70a68c10dcb96%7C0%7C1%7C638084251162772534%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FAP%2Fx9PAkYB91lb4moczTMgIITLW1gdFGIosfADfCls%3D&reserved=0">APA Style Common Reference Examples Guide, APA Style 7th Edition</a></p> <p><strong><u>References (APA 7th edition).</u></strong></p> <p>Cho, E., Fugen, C., Herrmann, T., Kilgour, K., Mediani, M., Mohr, C., Niehues, J., Rottmann, K., Saam, C., Stuker, S., & Waibel, A. 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A tentative proposal for translation & interpreting based on human-computer collaboration through developments in artificial intelligence. <em>Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Education in China</em>, <em>3</em>, 88–94.</p>2023-09-05T11:33:11+02:00https://artojs01.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/announcement/view/23Call for abstracts (and papers): Call for abstracts & papers (in English, Spanish, French and German): Translation for Social Justice: Concepts, Policies and Practices across Modalities and Contexts2023-01-16T11:34:22+01:00Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies<p><strong>Call for abstracts & papers (in English, Spanish, French and German): </strong><strong>Translation for Social Justice: Concepts, Policies and Practices across Modalities and Contexts</strong></p> <p>Call for abstracts & papers - LANS-TTS Issue 23, publication year 2024</p> <p><strong><u>Guest editors</u></strong></p> <p><strong>Dr Julie Boéri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar)</strong></p> <p><strong>Dr Ting Guo, University of Liverpool (UK)</strong></p> <p><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1013-4806">Julie Boéri</a> is Associate Professor in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester. She has interpreted and/or coordinated interpreting in many social justice initiatives in Europe and Latin America. Her work focuses on the translational nature of contemporary social movements and civil society, and on the ethics of translation, interpreting and mediation. She co-edited (with Carol Maier, Kent State University, USA) the bilingual English and Spanish book <em>Compromiso Social y Traducción/Interpretación – Translation/Interpreting and Social Activism</em>. She has published her work in varying outlets: <em>The Translator </em>(Taylor & Francis), <em>Translation and Interpreting Studies </em>(John Benjamins), <em>Quaderns</em>, <em>Puentes</em>, <em>The Translator and Interpreter Trainer</em>, <em>Meta: journal des traducteurs</em>, <em>Hermès</em>, <em>Language and Communication</em>, <em>Revues des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication</em>, among others. She has regularly contributed to Routledge Handbooks and Encyclopedia (on citizen media, translation, interpreting, ethics). She is the Vice-President of IATIS (International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies).</p> <p><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1726-8682">Ting Guo</a> is a Senior Lecturer in Translation and Chinese studies at University of Liverpool. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies (Aston University, UK). Her research focuses on the pivotal role of translators in the reproduction and dissemination of knowledge as well as in cultural and social changes. She has coedited two special issues on the topic of queer translation, with Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Jonathan Evans, of <em>Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice </em>(in press 2023) and <em>Translation and Interpreting Studies </em>(published 2021). Ting publishes widely in international journals such as <em>Translation Studies </em>and <em>Literature Compass</em>, and she is the author of <em>Surviving Violent Conflict: Chinese Interpreters in the Second-Sino Japanese War </em>(1931-45) (2016). She is the Associate Editor of <em>Target, the International Journal of Translation Studies </em>and member of the Advisory Board of <em>Translation in Society </em>as well as member of the Advisory Panel of <em>New Voices in Translation Studies</em>.</p> <p><strong>Translation for Social Justice: Concepts, Policies and Practices across Modalities and Contexts</strong></p> <p>The transnational nature of contemporary movements, media and networks in our globalized and interconnected societies has placed translation at the heart of counter-hegemonic discourses and endeavours. In this context, translation has become a powerful prism through which to think and practice social justice. Although largely intellectualized in relation to Western, liberal welfare states, social justice is also a performative and interpersonal prism of social change (Sen, 2009), with roots historically spread across cultures, traditions and territories, and with ramifications in contemporary forms of resistance, including struggles for the rights of humans but also of animals and nature. Thus, while social justice has traditionally been understood as the fair distribution of means and resources and the recognition of people’s rights across status in a given society (Fraser & Honneth, 2003), the increased interconnection of struggles across the world has broadened social justice in ways that heighten the stakes of translation. The leverage and enactment of the multiple rights which social justice now encompasses is contingent upon the organization, the practice and the theorization of translation (Boéri, 2022) in all its modalities (translation, interpreting, bilingual facilitation, fixing, subtitling, dubbing) and across communication contexts of resistance (social movements, media networks, cultural institutions).</p> <p>Combining a translational focus on social justice and a social justice focus on translation can harness the political and ethical potentials of this area of enquiry and practice, emerging from the liminal space between activism and the service economy (Baker, 2013; Boéri, 2008, 2012; Boéri & Delgado Luchner, 2021; Piróth & Baker, 2020; Pérez-González, 2010, 2016), social justice and social movements (de Sousa Santos, 2005; Doerr, 2018; Fernández, 2021), social justice and public policy (García-Beyaert, 2017), social justice and art (Boéri, 2020), social justice and education (Bahadır, 2011; Boéri & Jerez, 2011; Gill & Guzmán, 2011), and social justice and gender equality ( Baldo et al., 2021; Guo, 2021; Spurlin, 2018). On the one hand, a translational approach to social justice invites scholars to account for the counter-hegemonic potential of cross-language communication, which tends to be overlooked in an all too often monolingual account of multilingual processes and spaces of resistance. On the other hand, a social justice focus on translation can yield powerful insights into the agency of the translation actors as dynamic/innovative agents in the performance of their duties, who may depart from and rethink deontological principles of impartiality and expertise. These two complementary and overlapping standpoints have the potential to renew our understanding of how social actors (including translators and interpreters) think and perform social justice beyond the monolingual and expert paradigms.</p> <p>Bringing together studies from across contexts, regions and territories of resistance, this special issue aims to advance knowledge of the challenges and the stakes of overcoming language barriers in social justice endeavours. We seek submissions across translation and interpreting studies, with particular interest in interdisciplinary perspectives which can cast a critical light onto the social justice stakes of translation across contexts and modalities. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>The politics of organization of cross-language communication in past and contemporary social justice endeavours across contexts (movements, media, cultural institutions)</li> <li>Framing and leveraging translation/interpreting for social justice: stakes, challenges and levers in and beyond liberal democracies</li> <li>Enacting social justice in adversarial and collaborative cross-language encounters: positionality, ethics, constraints and agency</li> <li>The translation labor of social justice: wages, volunteering, working conditions, expertise, skills, affect</li> <li>Individual and collective trajectories of social justice actors: processes of collective identity formation among activists who translate and activist translators</li> <li>Translation/Interpreting pedagogies of social justice: curriculum developments in <em>ad hoc</em>, community and formal training</li> <li>Epistemologies of translational counter-hegemonic endeavors: revisiting and renewing concepts, methods, frameworks, models and paradigms for social justice</li> </ul> <p>Selected papers will be submitted for a double-blind peer review as requested by LANS–TS. </p> <p><strong>Practical information and deadlines</strong></p> <p>Proposals: Please submit <u>abstracts</u> of approximately 500–1000 words in <strong>English, French, Spanish or German</strong>, including relevant references (not included in the word count), to <strong>both</strong> Dr Julie Boéri (<a href="mailto:jboeri@hbku.edu.qa">jboeri@hbku.edu.qa</a>) and Dr Ting Guo (<a href="mailto:ting.guo@liverpool.ac.uk">ting.guo@liverpool.ac.uk</a>) in the same email.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Abstract deadline: 1 April 2023</strong></li> <li><strong>Acceptance of abstract proposals: 1 June 2023 </strong></li> <li><strong>Submission of papers: 1 November 2023 </strong></li> <li><strong>Acceptance of the papers: 1 March 2024 </strong></li> <li><strong>Submission of final versions of papers: 1 June 2024 </strong></li> <li><strong>Editorial work (proofreading and APA check): June to November 2024 </strong></li> <li><strong>Publication: December 2024</strong></li> </ul> <p>For all submissions (abstracts and full papers), authors have to use <strong>APA 7<sup>th</sup></strong>.</p> <p><a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapastyle.apa.org%2Fstyle-grammar-guidelines%2Freferences&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3ab13094908b4177f61708daee3ee4e2%7C0edca4720b7146e696c70a68c10dcb96%7C0%7C1%7C638084251162772534%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yoSC7nwupPa7nqdW5cjpkSKsdZuYbf7q0rRLss0MVwA%3D&reserved=0">References (apa.org)</a><br /><a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapastyle.apa.org%2Finstructional-aids%2Freference-guide.pdf&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3ab13094908b4177f61708daee3ee4e2%7C0edca4720b7146e696c70a68c10dcb96%7C0%7C1%7C638084251162772534%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WNkNh0TpnmNxVEapMfnxDz9ZjL3GQJPTyPE%2B4aZMKs8%3D&reserved=0">APA Style Reference Guide for Journal Articles, Books, and Edited Book Chapters, APA Style 7th Edition</a><br /><a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapastyle.apa.org%2Finstructional-aids%2Freference-examples.pdf&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3ab13094908b4177f61708daee3ee4e2%7C0edca4720b7146e696c70a68c10dcb96%7C0%7C1%7C638084251162772534%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FAP%2Fx9PAkYB91lb4moczTMgIITLW1gdFGIosfADfCls%3D&reserved=0">APA Style Common Reference Examples Guide, APA Style 7th Edition</a></p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p>Bahadır, Ş. (2011). Interpreting enactments: a new path for interpreting pedagogy. In C. Kainz, E. Prunc, & R. Schögler (Eds.), <em>Modelling the field of community interpreting: Questions of methodology in research and training </em>(pp. 177–210). LIT Verlag.</p> <p>Baker, M. (2013). Translation as an alternative space for political action. <em>Social Movement Studies</em>, <em>12</em>(1), 23–47. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.685624">https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.685624</a></p> <p>Baldo, M., Evans, J., & Guo, T. (2021). Introduction: translation and LGBT+/queer activism. <em>Translation and Interpreting Studies</em>, <em>16</em>(2), 185–195. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00051.int">https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00051.int</a></p> <p>Boéri, J. (2008). A narrative account of the Babels vs. Naumann controversy. <em>The Translator</em>, <em>14</em>(1), 21–50. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2008.10799248">https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2008.10799248</a></p> <p>Boéri, J. (2020). Diversity. In M. Baker, L. Pérez González, & B. B. Blaagaard (Eds.), <em>Routledge encyclopedia of citizen media</em> (pp. 140–145). Routledge. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619811">https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619811</a></p> <p>Boéri, J. (2022). Steering ethics towards social justice: A model for a meta-ethics of interpreting. <em>Translation and Interpreting Studies</em>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.20070.boe">https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.20070.boe</a></p> <p>Boéri, J., & Jerez, J. D. M. (2011). 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Routledge. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603216">https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603216</a></p>2023-01-16T11:34:22+01:00https://artojs01.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/announcement/view/16Book reviews: new book review editors and new guidelines2020-11-10T00:00:00+01:00Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies<p>LANS – TTS welcomes book reviews in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies and its neighbouring disciplines, with a particular interest in reviews from an interdisciplinary approach. The main objective of the review section is to introduce new books that bring important and impactful contributions to the field.</p><p><strong>Book reviewers should consider the following guidelines:</strong></p><ul><li>Provide a comprehensive overview of the contents and a discussion of the work’s importance to Translation and Interpreting Studies.</li><li>Present a critical evaluation of or objective comments about the strengths and weaknesses of the work.</li><li>Consider the work’s place within its field, if possible making a comparison with other works on this or similar topic.</li><li>Address how readers may use and benefit from the work.</li><li>Write in clear and idiomatic English. If English is not the reviewer’s native language, it is the reviewer's responsibility to have the text checked by an English editor.</li><li>The reviews can be of books written in any language and not only English.</li><li>Word limit is 1000–1500 (including references). 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Routledge. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315691862" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315691862</a> (pp. 394)</p><p><strong>Please add your name, </strong><strong>affiliation</strong><strong> and email at the end of your review</strong>:</p><ul><li>Reviewer’s Name</li><li>Reviewer’s Affiliation</li><li>E-mail</li></ul><p><strong>Please follow the following submission procedure for reviews:</strong></p><ul><li>send you <strong>review proposal</strong> (title of the book to review) to the review editors (see below) <strong>by 30th June 2021</strong></li><li><strong>if your proposal has been accepted</strong>, send your review by <strong>October 1st, 2021.</strong></li><li>send your review as a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Word email</span> attachment to all book review editors of the journal:<strong> </strong></li></ul><ul><li>Dr Jing Han at <a href="mailto:jing.han@westernsydney.edu.au">jing.han@westernsydney.edu.au</a></li><li>Dr Linxin Liang at <a href="mailto:linxinliang@hust.edu.cn">linxinliang@hust.edu.cn</a></li></ul><p>Reviewers bear full responsibility for their reviews. 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