The Routledge Handbook of the Translation Industry
About this ebook
Comprising 33 chapters from scholarly and industry voices, this handbook addresses the many issues arising from growing technologisation, new trends in translation procurement and production, and increasing pressures on the range of actors in the translation industry. The content spans both bottom-up and top-down perspectives, using a variety of theoretical, praxiological, and data-driven approaches.
In addition to providing coverage of a range of well-established professional profiles, workflows, and resources, this handbook adopts a novel approach in addressing emerging topics such as global sustainable development and wellbeing, economics, the platform economy, and social media and the influencer economy. The opening mapping chapter and final roundtable chapter provide fitting conceptual and forward-looking bookends for the content.
This handbook offers a topical and much-needed forum to engage with the challenges and opportunities facing the translation industry and constitutes an essential point of reference for students and researchers of translation as well as industry practitioners and professionals.
About the author
Callum Walker (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Translation Technology and Director of the Centre for Translation, Interpretation and Localisation Studies at the University of Leeds, where he teaches computer-assisted translation technology, project management, translation theory, and specialised translation. He has previously lectured at Durham University, Goldsmiths University of London, and University College London. Alongside his academic roles, he has worked as a freelance translator since 2009 (French and Russian into English) and small translation business owner, as well as being a Chartered Linguist, Member of the CIOL, and Member of the ITI.
Joseph Lambert (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and Director of the MA Translation Studies at Cardiff University. His teaching includes course components on translation technologies, pathways into the translation industry, general and specialised translation (French to English), translation theory, and translation ethics, as well as supervising students at BA, MA, and PhD levels. His primary areas of research interest are ethics and sustainability in the translation industry. In 2023, he published a textbook with Routledge entitled Translation Ethics and he has written widely on the translation profession, questions of pay, status, and sustainability in the UK translation industry, and translation codes of ethics.