Indirect Translation Explained

Indirect Translation Explained is the first comprehensive, user-friendly book on the practice of translating indirectly in today’s world. Unlike previous scholarly approaches, which have traditionally focused on translating from the original, this textbook offers practical advice on how to efficiently translate from an already translated text and for the specific purpose of further translation.

Written by key specialists in this area of research and drawing on many years of translation teaching and practice, this process-focused textbook covers a range of languages, geographical settings and types of translation, including audiovisual, literary, news, and scientific-technical translation, as well as localization and interpreting. Since this topic addresses the concerns and practices of both more peripheral and more dominant languages, this textbook is usable by all, regardless of the language combinations they work with.

Featuring theoretical considerations, tasks for hands-on practice, suggestions for further discussion and diverse, real-world examples, this is the essential textbook for all students and autodidacts learning how to translate via a third language.

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Hanna Pięta is an assistant professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, and a researcher at CETAPS (Translationality Research Group). She is co-coordinator of the international research network IndirecTrans and associate editor of the Translation Matters journal. She has recently co-edited a special issue of Target on what indirect translation can do for translation studies (2022) and is now co-editing a special issue of Perspectives on pivot audiovisual translation (2023).

Rita Bueno Maia is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Translation in the School of Human Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal and a member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture. She has recently co-edited Indirect Translation: Theoretical, Terminological and Methodological Issues (Routledge, 2019). She is co-coordinator of the international research network IndirecTrans and has worked as a literary translator for the theatre.

Ester Torres-Simón is an assistant professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain. She is a researcher at GREGAL Research Group (at UAB), an external collaborator of the Research Group on Reception and Translation Studies (at the University of Lisbon, Portugal) and a member of the European Society for Translation Studies Wikipedia Committee. She has a keen interest in innovative teaching practices and has published about the topic in The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement and Perspectives, among others.