Translating for the Community

This book offers rich insights into the practice of community translation. Chapters outline the specific nature and challenges of community translation, quality standards, training and the relationship between community translation as a professional practice and volunteer or crowd-sourced translation.

About the author

Mustapha Taibi is Associate Professor in Interpreting and Translation at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the leader of the International Community Translation Research Group and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Translation & Interpreting. Among his recent books is New Insights into Arabic Translation and Interpreting (2016, Multilingual Matters).

Product details

• Assisted by: Mustapha Taibi (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781783099139
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-913-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Series: Translation, Interpreting and; Translation, Interpreting and Social Justice in a Globalised World; Translation, Interpreting and Social Justice in a Globalised World; Translation, Interpreting and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories