This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues shaping the language industry, including translation, interpreting, machine translation, editing, terminology management, technology and accessibility. By exploring current and future research topics and methods, the Companion addresses language industry stakeholders, researchers, trainers and working professionals who are keen to know more about the dynamics of the language industry. Providing systematic coverage of a diverse range of translation and interpreting related topics and featuring an A to Z of key terms, The Bloomsbury Companion to Language Industry Studies examines how industry trends and technological advancement can optimize best practices in multilingual communication, language industry workspaces and training.

Luo Xuanmin, Ph.D., is Junwu Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Guangxi University, China and Director of the Center for Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies of Tsinghua University. His publications include books and translations with various publishers and journals at home and abroad. His monograph Translation and Chinese Modernity (2017) is being translated into four languages (Russian, English, Spanish, and Korean) under a translation project supported by the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Hu Zhengmao, Ph.D., is associate professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China and five-time winner of Han Suyin National Translation Competition and champion of the First Cankao Xiaoxi National English Translation Contest (2009). His publications include English Journalistic Reading (2009), "Etymology and Sememe Analysis in Translation" (Babel 55:2), Libra (2015), and Loanwords in the Chinese Language (Routledge, 2021).