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THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF SPANISH
TRANSLATION STUDIES
Edited by Roberto A. Valdeón and África Vidal
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CONTENTS
Notes on contributors viii
Introduction: translation and translation studies in Spain and in
Spanish-speaking areas 1
Roberto A. Valdeón and África Vidal Claramonte
1 Spanish translation history 13
Luis Pegenaute
2 Literary translation 44
Juan Jesús Zaro
3 Translation and the Spanish Empire 59
Roberto A. Valdeón
4 Translation in Hispanic America 72
Álvaro Echeverri and Georges L. Bastin
5 Spanish translation in the US and Canada 85
Kelly Washbourne
6 Translation and gender 102
Pilar Godayol
7 Translation and ideology: Spanish perspectives 118
Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés
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8 Translation and humour 139
Marta Mateo and Patrick Zabalbeascoa
9 Pedagogy of translation 157
Dorothy Kelly
10 Cognitive approaches 175
Amparo Hurtado Albir
11 An overview of interpreting in Spanish: past, present and future 196
Robert Neal Baxter
12 Intercultural communication: public service interpreting and translation 211
Carmen Valero-Garcés
13 Linguistic approaches to translation 227
Gloria Corpas Pastor and María-Araceli Losey-León
14 Terminology 247
Pamela Faber and Silvia Montero-Martínez
15 Legal and institutional translation 267
M. Rosario Martín Ruano
16 Technical and medical translation 288
Goretti Faya and Carmen Quijada
17 Audiovisual translation 311
Frederic Chaume
18 Localization and localization research in Spanish-speaking contexts 352
Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo
19 Translation of Hispanic comics and graphic novels 365
Javier Muñoz-Basols and Enrique del Rey Cabero
20 Journalistic translation 386
María José Hernández Guerrero
21 Tourism, translation and advertising 402
Elizabeth Woodward-Smith
22 Ethics and translation 417
Alberto Fuertes
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23 Translation policies from/into the official languages in Spain 429
Montserrat Bacardí
24 A bibliometric overview of translation studies research in Spanish-
speaking countries 454
Javier Franco Aixelá and Sara Rovira-Esteva
Index 500
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CONTRIBUTORS
Montserrat Bacardí is a professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the Auton-
omous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has published articles on the history of literature
and translation and various books, including Cent anys de traducció al català (1891–1990)
(1998), Anna Murià. El vici d’escriure (2004), El Quixot en català (2006), Catalans a Buenos
Aires (2009), La traducció catalana sota el franquisme (2012), Gràcia Bassa, poeta, perio-
dista i traductora (2016) and, with Pilar Godayol, Diccionari de la traducció catalana (dir.)
(2011) and Les traductores i la tradició (2013).
Georges L. Bastin is a full professor of Translation Studies at the Université de Montréal.
He is a leading researcher in the field of the translation history of Latin America. He has
authored several books and papers in various refereed journals. He is the President of the
Canadian Association of Translation Schools. He is the editor of Meta since 2014 and he
heads the Research Group on Translation History in Latin America at his university since
2004.
Robert Neal Baxter holds a PhD in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Vigo,
where he has taught consecutive and simultaneous interpreting (English-Galician) since 1995.
He has also worked extensively as a professional freelance translator and interpreter. His
research interests include interpreter training and the sociolinguistic impact of interpreting
and translating on subordinated (‘minority’) languages, with special emphasis on Galician and
Breton, as well as the interplay between translation and gender.
Ovidi Carbonell Cortés is a full professor of Translation Studies, University of Sala-
manca, Spain. He has also taught at the universities of Salford (UK), James Madison (US),
Benito Juárez (Oaxaca, Mexico) and Hamad bin Khalifa (Doha, Qatar). He is author of
Übersetzen ins Andere (2002), Traducción y cultura: de la ideología al texto (1999) and
Traducir al Otro: traducción, exotismo, poscolonialismo (1997). Some of his edited works
include, The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture (2018, with Sue-Ann Hard-
ing), Presencias japonesas (2014), Intercultural Translation in a Global World (2015,
with Izaskun Elorza) and Ideology and Cross-Cultural Encounters (2009, with Myriam
Salama-Carr).
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Frederic Chaume is a professor of Audiovisual Translation at Universitat Jaume I (Spain),
where he teaches audiovisual translation theory and dubbing; and Honorary Professor at Uni-
versity College London (UK), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Peru) and Uni-
versidad Ricardo Palma (Peru). He is author of the books Doblatge i subtitulació per a la TV
(Eumo, 2003), Cine y Traducción (Cátedra, 2004), Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing (Rout-
ledge, 2014) and co-author of Teories Contemporànies de la Traducció (Bromera, 2010), and
La Traducción para el Doblaje: Mapa de Convenciones (UJI, 2016). He has been awarded the
Berlanga Award and the Xènia Martínez Award for his support to audiovisual translation and
his constant university training in this field.
Gloria Corpas Pastor is a professor in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Mal-
aga, visiting Professor in Translation Technologies at the University of Wolverhampton and
Spanish delegate for AEN/CTN 174, CEN/BTTF 138 and ISO TC37. She is a regular evalu-
ator for University Quality Assurance Agencies and various research funding bodies and has
published extensively in corpus-based translation, tools and resources for translators and inter-
preters, phraseology and language technology.
Álvaro Echeverri is an associate professor of Translation Studies at the Université de Mon-
tréal. He teaches graduate courses on translation theory and translation pedagogy as well as
undergraduate courses on documentary research and other practical translation courses. He
has published several book chapters and articles in refereed journals on topics related to the
history of translation in Latin American. He is particularly interested in the translation of
political texts at the time of independence.
Pamela Faber is a full professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the
University of Granada, where she lectures on Terminology and Specialized Translation. She
is the director of the LexiCon research group, with whom she has carried out various national
and international research projects on Frame-based Terminology. She is the author of over one
hundred publications on translation, terminology and lexical semantics.
Goretti Faya-Ornia graduated in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Vallado-
lid. She specializes in medical and technical translation in English (University Jaume I) and
German (University of Córdoba), and has professional experience as a translator, reviewer,
proofreader and coordinator of translation projects. She was a lecturer and researcher at the
University of Oviedo (where she earned her international doctorate), and currently works at
the University of Valladolid. Her research pivots on specialized translation (mainly on medical
translation), text genres, text typologies, contrastive linguistics and linguistic corpora.
Javier Franco Aixelá is a senior lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting of
the Universidad de Alicante (Spain), where he teaches literary translation, ethics, documenta-
tion, and theory of translation. For twelve years, he was a professional translator and as such
has published over thirty books in Spain. His research topics include the bibliometrics of
translation, medical translation, and the manipulation of culture in translation, with some fifty
academic publications in these areas. He is the creator of BITRA (Bibliography of Interpret-
ing and Translation), available online, and comprising over 72,000 records as of June, 2018.
Alberto Fuertes Puerta has a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of León, Spain.
He has been a lecturer at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, where he taught courses on general
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