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JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation
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ISSN 1740-357X · ZHAW · 952 articles in the index
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Embodied Translation, Multimodal, and Situated Communication
This ethnographic study explores how multilingual athletes in Macau’s rink hockey and football teams translate strategy, affect, and identity across linguistic, bodily, and material boundaries. Drawing on extensive field observation, video analysis, and in-depth interviews, we examine communication…
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Does GenAI reliance undermine translators’ roles and identities? GenAI literacy and translation competence matter
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has provoked concerns regarding linguists’ relegation to mechanical roles such as machine translation consultants and post-editors, which undermines their sense of ownership and professional identity. However, empirical findings remain mixed…
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Effects of Translator-Computer Interaction Modes and Educational Levels on Textual Coherence Quality
This study explored the effects of three features of translator-computer interaction modes (translation resources, text segmentation and task roles), together with student educational levels, on textual coherence quality in Chinese to English translations. Fifty-two students at bachelor’s and…
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Specialised Experts in Court
In interpreter-mediated courtroom proceedings, especially those conducted remotely, the accurate rendering of manner of speech—including discourse markers, hedges, fillers, and stylistic cues—plays a critical role in ensuring both procedural fairness and linguistic equity. This study positions…
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The good life? Exploring human capital sustainability among UK freelance translators
Despite healthy growth in the global language services industry, there have been increasing concerns over the state and sustainability of the translation industry. In this article, we interrogate the human capital sustainability of UK-based freelance translation, shifting the focus of discussions…
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Translation as Image Crafting: Strategic Multimodal Highlighting in the Representation of Hangzhou’s Image
This article investigates how bilingual city promotional videos function as soft power instruments through strategic multimodal highlighting. Focusing on Hangzhou as a case study, it adopts a multimodal critical discourse analysis framework that integrates Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2021) visual…
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Audio Describing Humour in the Chinese Context: A Creative and Collaborative Approach
Audio description (AD) has seen rapid development internationally, including in China. But among the challenges that AD has yet to fully address is the difficulty of translating humorous content when AD principles have long focused on objectivity. The objective principle may conflict with comedy’s…
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From sight to insight: a methodological framework for subjective audio description in museum contexts and the case of Caravaggio
In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the value of subjective and minority styles in audio description, especially within the field of museum accessibility for BPS audiences. Recent research has begun to explore not only the conventional, objective styles commonly identified in…
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Digital Urban Ecotranslation as Environmental Education in Anthropocene-Era Hong Kong
Urban digital ecotranslation employs digital technology and translation to allow city dwellers access to specialist ecological knowledge. The objects of study are bilingual online nature-related digital databases, both websites and apps, in Hong Kong. Qualitative and quantitative methods were…
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Comparing Human and AI-Assisted Evaluation of Interpreting Performance
Growing data volumes and the rise of AI-assisted interpreting solutions increasingly challenge the assessment of interpreting quality. This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can support error-based interpreting performance assessment, which has traditionally relied on…
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Between Idealism and Precarity: Professional Image, Job Satisfaction and Working Conditions in China’s Emerging Audio Description Profession
This article reports the first large-scale survey study of professional image, job satisfaction, and working conditions among audio describers in Mainland China. Drawing on an online survey (n = 223) that replicates and contextually adapts an established questionnaire, it examines how describers…
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Linguistic Variations between Translated and Non-Translated Sports News
This study quantifies the linguistic variations between translated and non-translated sports news by using thirteen lexical and syntactic indices from quantitative linguistics and corpus linguistics, with the additional aim of testing the translation universals hypothesis. Through a 40,000-word…