{"title":"A descriptive exploration of translation teacher profiles and positions","authors":"Mariusz Marczak,Maria Piotrowska","doi":"10.1556/084.2026.01426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2026.01426","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While research on translation pedagogy tends to focus on identifying student competences and effective learning modes, it only occasionally addresses the teachers expected to future-proof their students for viable professional careers in a volatile language industry. The present paper reports on a TER survey of translation teachers designed to explore current profiles and positions specifically in the form of (self-)identities, role perceptions and development needs in a rapidly evolving professional environment. Drawing on the responses of over 160 participants from 31 countries, the paper first considers the survey in the broader context of previous studies and then discusses key findings on the respondents' backgrounds, beliefs, identities and perceptions of the skills needed to meet present and future pedagogical challenges. Despite some evidence of entrenchment, the results indicate evolving positions and profiles as teachers see the need to adapt to new professional and technological realities.","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Istanbul Gender Museum as a translational and memory space","authors":"Özlem Berk Albachten","doi":"10.1556/084.2026.01417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2026.01417","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the Istanbul Gender Museum, with a focus on its first exhibition of 2021, Time to Speak , highlighting its use of multilingualism, translation, and inclusivity. It argues that the museum becomes an institution of active memory by engaging in multiple translation practices: the cultural translation of local and transnational feminist movements and women+ experiences through slogans featured in Time to Speak ; the interlingual translation of these slogans into local languages; the translation of the museum content into English; and the intersemiotic translation of slogans into artwork. The article particularly explores the first two translation practices, contending that the cultural translation of transnational experiences fosters feminist alliances across borders and reshapes movements and demands within new contexts. Additionally, by adopting inclusivity in the form of linguistic and ethnic diversity, through the use of various ethnic languages spoken in Türkiye alongside the artworks, the museum actively reminds its predominantly monolingual citizens of the country's multilingual and multi-ethnic fabric. The article further suggests that museums, especially as they become more global, digital, and interactive, are no longer fixed “memory spaces”, but dynamic sites of “traveling memories”, accommodating multiple remembering practices rather than a singular (national) narrative.","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New orientations in interpreting studies and interpreter education: Information processing, meaning mediation and language-pair specificity","authors":"Siqi Wang,Yang Yao,Qiujun Su","doi":"10.1556/084.2026.01942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2026.01942","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of relevance theory to translation and interpreting","authors":"Pál Heltai","doi":"10.1556/084.2026.01822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2026.01822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Islamic State’ in Translation","authors":"M. Bánhegyi","doi":"10.1556/084.2023.00590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2023.00590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41538474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New technologies in the court: Remote hearings and hybrid interpreting during the pandemic","authors":"Láncos Petra Lea","doi":"10.1556/084.2023.00327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2023.00327","url":null,"abstract":"Fair trial is the cornerstone of all judicial proceedings and a fundamental right guaranteeing, among other things, the right to interpreting to those who do not understand and speak the language of the court. With the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, courts around the world struggled to continue adjudication, turning to the solution of remote hearings and hybrid interpreting to comply with requirements of both health policy and the right to linguistic presence in judicial proceedings. This paper describes the solutions applied in domestic, international and EU courts, shedding light on the shortcomings of remote hearings and their possible detrimental effects on interpreting and fair trial.","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44976332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond singability: A descriptive-explanatory analysis of Polish translations of Frank Sinatra's My Way","authors":"Anna Rędzioch-Korkuz","doi":"10.1556/084.2022.00380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2022.00380","url":null,"abstract":"Translation and music has become a subfield within translation studies oriented towards discussing singable song translations. Most studies in this subfield have been lyrics-oriented, emphasising lack of semantic fidelity resulting mainly from issues of singability. Though singability is an important factor influencing song translation, song texts function as coherent compositions in wider contexts of time and place, their performers or poetics of translators. This article aims to present a multimodal and comparative analysis of three Polish song translations of Frank Sinatra's My Way. By adopting a descriptive-explanatory approach it demonstrates how the interplay of performer-related, contextual, social or poetics-based factors can be more influential than singability.","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44962032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing simplification in translated and creative writing texts: The case of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee detective stories","authors":"Juqiang Chen, Hui Chang","doi":"10.1556/084.2023.00375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2023.00375","url":null,"abstract":"Translational language has been reported to have unique characteristics, or translation universals, as compared to native non-translational production. One of the most widely studied features is simplification, i.e., translated texts tend to be less complex than non-translational texts. This study tested this hypothesis by comparing the translated and creative writing texts produced by a single author, Robert van Gulik, on the same topic (Judge Dee's detective adventures). Our well-controlled comparisons showed that the translated text was lexically less diverse, but syntactically more complex and generally less readable. The cognitive load of translation and the source text constrained the amount of vocabulary used in the translation compared with free writings. On the other hand, longer and more complex sentences reflected the translator's efforts to state the information in a more explicit form when conveying the ancient Chinese detective stories to the Western world. Our research, thus, offers some insights into the investigation of the simplification hypothesis and the relation between translation and writing.","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46527054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing interpreting studies","authors":"Piroska Szentirmay","doi":"10.1556/084.2023.00607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2023.00607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46242253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the relevance and relative importance of interpreting aptitude constructs and their underlying factors: A data-driven tripartite investigation","authors":"Yubo Liu, Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1556/084.2023.00437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2023.00437","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to explore the relevance and underlying factors of an array of interpreting aptitude constructs, and, on that basis, the collective and group-specific perception of their relative importance. To meet the research purposes, a questionnaire survey was designed and distributed to interpreting trainers, trainees and professional interpreters, asking respondents to evaluate the relative importance of 40 aptitude constructs drawn from an extensive literature review. A total of 769 valid responses were collected. An explorative factor analysis retained 23 constructs divided into three factors focusing on cognitive skills for online information processing, personality traits and temperaments, and foundational linguistic skills respectively. While personality traits and temperaments were regarded as a stable and distinctive dimension of interpreting aptitude, cognitive skills for information processing were viewed as the most important factor. Particularly, listening and speaking in B enjoyed the highest rating. Although statistically significant differences existed in the relative importance of certain constructs, the substantive differences indicated by the effect sizes were small. Compared with trainees, trainers and professional interpreters demonstrated a more sharpened awareness of market demands and industrial priorities, but otherwise the three groups converged more than they diverged in the evaluation of aptitude constructs and factors.","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41410375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}