The Routledge Handbook of the Translation Industry

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-44679-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 588 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies

The Routledge Handbook of the Translation Industry provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of current and emerging practices, workflows, and processes in the translation industry, the professional and socio-economic contexts in which industry actors operate, and best practices in translation industry teaching and research in this rapidly developing field. 

Comprising 33 chapters from scholarly and industry voices, the Handbook addresses the many issues arising from growing technologisation, new trends in translation procurement and production, and increasing pressures on the range of actors in the translation industry. The content spans both bottom-up and top-down perspectives, using a variety of theoretical, praxiological, and data-driven approaches. 

As well as providing coverage of a range of well-established professional profiles, workflows, and resources, the Handbook adopts a novel approach in addressing emerging topics such as global sustainable development and wellbeing, economics, the platform economy, and social media and the influencer economy. The opening mapping chapter and final Roundtable chapter provide fitting conceptual and forward-looking bookends for the content.

 This handbook offers a topical and much-needed forum to engage with the challenges and opportunities facing the translation industry, and constitutes an essential point of reference for students and researchers of translation, as well as industry practitioners and professionals.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Callum

Lambert, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Über Autor(innen)

Callum Walker (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Translation Technology and Director of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, where he teaches computer-assisted translation technology, project management, translation theory, and specialised translation. He has previously lectured at Durham University, Goldsmiths University of London and University College London. Alongside his academic roles, he has worked as a freelance translator since 2009 (French and Russian into English) and small translation business owner, as well as being a Chartered Linguist, Member of the CIOL, and Member of the ITI. His research interests relate to translation industry studies, with a specific focus on project management (culminating in the Routledge textbook Translation Project Management), micro- and information economics, and the interaction between technology and translation workflows.

 

Joseph Lambert (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and Director of the MA Translation Studies at Cardiff University. His teaching includes course components on translation technologies, pathways into the translation industry, general and specialised translation (French to English), translation theory, and translation ethics, as well as supervising students at BA, MA, and PhD levels. His primary areas of research interest are ethics and sustainability in the translation industry. In 2023, he published a textbook with Routledge entitled Translation Ethics and he has written widely on the translation profession, questions of pay, status, and sustainability in the UK translation industry, and translation codes of ethics. In recent years, he has collaborated closely with leading UK translation associations, and his work aims to create dialogue around the range of ethical and sustainability issues that translators face both within and beyond the translation profession and industry.