Research subject Translation
Translation research is often multidisciplinary, and borrows models and methods from adjacent fields such as linguistics, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, didactics, film and media studies and cognitive science.
Research can investigate the social conditions of translators, and their cognitive processes in the translation situation, or it can investigate translations in comparisons with their originals. The description, explanation and theorising about how translation practice is organised cognitively, as well as textually and socially, is central to translation research.
There are many possible avenues in the translation profession:
- Professional translators of non-fiction are commissioned both by public bodies and businesses, and commissions are often channelled through translation agencies. EU is an important commissioner. Professional translators produce translated texts in domains such as technology, IT, law, finance, medicine, advertising, and so on.
- In film, television, and other media, audiovisual translators carry out subtitling, dubbing, and voice-over, and they also work with media accessibility, such as audio description and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Translators of fiction are mainly commissioned by publishing houses. Literary translators create translations of novels, poetry, drama, and so on.
Research orientations within translation
Within translation, we mainly research Translation of children’s literature, Cognitive aspects of translation, Audiovisual Translation, Sociology of translation and Translation as textual practice.
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Researchers
Valérie Alfvén
Universitetslektor
Elisabeth Bladh
Senior lecturer, Deputy director
Giada Brighi
Doktorand
Thérèse Eng
Adjungerad lärare
Birgitta Englund Dimitrova
Professor emerita
Hanna Hagström
Doktorand
Yvonne Lindqvist
Professor
Lova Meister
Doktorand
Ulf Norberg
Docent
Jan Pedersen
Associate professor
Richard Pleijel
Forskare
Raphael Sannholm
Universitetslektor
Elin Svahn
Docent
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Research is conducted at the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies (TÖI) at the Department of Swedish Language an Multilingualism (Svefler).
The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism