The discipline of translation studies has gained increasing
importance at the beginning of the 21st century as a result of
rapid globalization and the development of computer-based
translation methods. Today, changing political, economic, health,
and environmental realities across the world are generating
previously unknown inter-language communication challenges that can
only be understood through a socially-oriented and data-driven
approach. The Oxford Handbook of Translation and Social Practices
draws on a wide array of case studies from all over the world to
demonstrate the value of different forms of translation - written,
oral, audiovisual - as social practices that are essential to
achieve sustainability, accessibility, inclusion, multiculturalism,
and multilingualism. Edited by Meng Ji and Sara Laviosa, this
timely collection illustrates the manifold interactions between
translation studies and the social and natural sciences, enabling
for the first time the exchange of research resources and methods
between translation and other domains' experts. Twenty-nine
chapters by international scholars and professional translators
apply translation studies methods to a wide range of fields,
including healthcare, environmental policy, geological and cultural
heritage conservation, education, tourism, comparative politics,
conflict mediation, international law, commercial law, immigration,
and indigenous rights. The articles engage with numerous languages,
from European and Latin American contexts to Asian and Australian
languages, giving unprecedented weight to the translation of
indigenous languages. The Handbook highlights how translation
studies generate innovative solutions to long-standing and emerging
social issues, thus reformulating the scope of this discipline as a
socially-oriented, empirical, and ethical research field in the
21st century.
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