Synergy III: Challenges in Translation

This book intends to present the challenges and new perspectives in the field oftranslation studies in parallel with the improvements in the academic and scientificworld with a specific focus on the themes of translation studies, ecocriticism,subtitling, retranslation, feminist and queer translation, descriptive translationstudies, text mining, multimodality in translation, and legal translation. Whilepresenting such wide-ranging research and analyses from various points of view ofoutstanding scholars in Turkey, our greatest wish is to build a common ground onwhich to build discussions in order to contribute to the ongoing studies in the field.

Aslı Özlem Tarakcıog˘lu has been serving as the Head of the Department of Englishin the Department of Translation and Interpreting in the Faculty of Letters in AnkaraHacı Bayram Veli University. She has a number of books, articles, chapters in books,presentations and seminars in Turkey and abroad. Her main fields of researchand interest are cultural studies, children’s literature, translation of literary works,creative drama, folk literature, comparative literature, film studies, gender studies,stylistics and theories of literatüre.Elif Ersözlü is an Asst. Prof. Dr. at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters,Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ankara, Turkey. Her studiesmainly focus on translation theory, technical translation, editing and revising andtranslation of crime fiction.