Translation, Interpreting and Technological Change: Innovations in Research, Practice and Training (Bloomsbury Advances in Translation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350212989 ISBN 13: 9781350212985

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

The digital era is characterised by technological advances that increase the speed and breadth of knowledge turnover within the economy and society. This book examines the impact of these technological advances on translation and interpreting and how new technologies are changing the very nature of language and communication. Reflecting on the innovations in research, practice and training that are associated with this turbulent landscape, chapters consider what these shifts mean for translators and interpreters. Technological changes interact in increasingly complex and pivotal ways with demographic shifts, caused by war, economic globalisation, changing social structures and patterns of mobility, environmental crises, and other factors. As such, researchers face new and often cross-disciplinary fields of inquiry, practitioners face the need to acquire and adopt novel skills and approaches, and trainers face the need to train students for working in a rapidly changing landscape of communication technology. This book brings together advances and challenges from the different but intertwined perspectives of translation and interpreting to examine how the field is changing in this rapidly evolving environment.

About this title

About the Authors

Marion Winters is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

Sharon Deane-Cox is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Ursula Böser is Professor Emerita in Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350212989
• ISBN 13: 9781350212985
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Winters Marion