Actualidad y novedad caracterizan el presente volumen, con temas de tan candente actualidad en el ámbito traductológico como el español neutro, el último gran éxito editorial (Millennium, de Stieg Larsson), la traducción teatral, el reconocimiento progresivo de las lenguas de signos y otras lenguas de menor difusión, o la nueva realidad de la inmigración en España. Son novedosos también los enfoques: desde los marcadores del discurso en el ámbito de la lingüística contrastiva hasta la teoría de los polisistemas, o la informática como herramienta ubicua de la traducción y de nuestras vidas. De igual forma destaca por su novedad la presencia de estudios sobre interpretación, disciplina normalmente más práctica que teórica. Todo ello, sin embargo, no impide echar la vista atrás para abordar aspectos de la historia de la traducción, y realizar el debido cuestionamiento ontológico.

El presente volumen recopila un total de 32 trabajos pioneros y representativos de las nuevas tendencias en Traducción e Interpretación de tres ámbitos tan diversos como son la fraseología, la interpretación y la traducción audiovisual, así como la didáctica de dichas disciplinas. Con él pretendemos contribuir a aumentar el horizonte investigador de estas materias, ampliándolo a lenguas menos tratadas, como el ruso o el árabe, o incluso minoritarias, como el rumano o el catalán, y llevándolo incluso a variantes de la lengua francesa como sería la antillana. El volumen nace asimismo con la vocación de contribuir a ensanchar el perfil didáctico de estas disciplinas, emergentes en el ámbito de la Traducción y la Interpretación.

Written by leading experts in the area, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Translation Studies brings together original contributions representing a culmination of the extensive research to-date within the field of Spanish Translation Studies. The Handbook covers a variety of translation related issues, both theoretical and practical, providing an overview of the field and establishing directions for future research. It starts by looking at the history of translation in Spain, the Americas during the colonial period and Latin America, and then moves on to discuss well-established areas of research such as literary translation and audiovisual translation, at which Spanish researchers have excelled. It also provides state-of-the-art information on new topics such as the interface between translation and humour on the one hand, and the translation of comics on the other. This Handbook is an indispensable resource for postgraduate students and researchers of translation studies.

As new technologies and professional profiles emerge, traditional education paradigms have to be adapted to new scenarios, creating favorable conditions for promoting transversal skills among students. Consequently, there is a growing demand for training in emergent skills to solve problems of different natures, distributive leadership competencies, empathy, ability to control emotions, etc. In this sense, one of the challenges that educators of all different educational levels and training contexts have to face is to foster these skills in their courses. To overcome these obstacles, innovative and disruptive methodologies, such as game-based learning activities like escape rooms, can be a great ally for teachers to work on transversal skills and specific knowledge at the same time. The Handbook of Research on Using Disruptive Methodologies and Game-Based Learning to Foster Transversal Skills gathers knowledge, skills, abilities, and capabilities on innovative and disruptive methodologies that can be applied in all educational levels to foster transversal skills. This publication contains different contributions focused on the description of innovative educational methods, processes, and tools that can be adopted by teachers to promote transversal skills such as creativity, critical thinking, decision-making, and entrepreneurial skills. This book is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, educational software developers, academics, professionals, students, and researchers working at all levels in the educational field and provides valuable background information to professionals who aim to overcome traditional paradigm obstacles and meet student needs by means of innovative and disruptive methodologies.

This collection invites readers to explore innovative or underexploited ways of working qualitatively with what in Translation Studies may be termed as elusive constructs. The volume adopts a functionalist approach to focus on one such concept, namely the notion of translation problem, using case studies to illustrate how a significant elusive construct can be addressed empirically. It explores different qualitative research methodologies which, although well established in other fields, are yet to be extensively used in TS but which may nevertheless prove to be of significance for future studies as they allow elusive concepts typically found in TS to be worked with more coherently. Chapters are structured around two core ideas: first, the qualitative, systematic analysis of source text content with emphasis on the detection of translation problems as a means of creating efficient frameworks for coherent decision-making from a functional perspective; and secondly, the practical process of stereotyping and profiling specific problems within different contexts, content types or services to help identify, manage and resolve them in a number of settings, from research to professional translator training and assessment environments. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, particularly those with an interest in qualitative approaches.