1st Edition

Translation Studies in the Philippines Navigating a Multilingual Archipelago

Edited By Riccardo Moratto, Mary Ann G. Bacolod Copyright 2024
162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The contributors to this book examine the state, development, issues, practices, and approaches to translation studies in the Philippines. The Philippines is a highly multilingual country, with many indigenous languages and regional dialects spoken alongside foreign imports, particularly English and Spanish. Professor Moratto, Professor Bacolod, and their contributors analyse the different... Read more

Introduction

1. A Concise History of Translation in the Philippines

Naidyl Isis Bautista and Anna Marie Sibayan-Sarmiento

2. Translation and Interpreting Education in the Philippines: A Preliminary Country Profile

Marlon James Sales

3. Performing Disappearance and Resurfacing: Viewing the World through Theater Translation in the Academe

Vladimeir B. Gonzales

4. Beyond Constraints: Advancing Linguistic Consensus in Filipino Subtitling

Michael Manahan

5. Necessary Infidelity: Obligatory Shifts in Translating Audiovisual Texts for Children

Honeylet E. Dumoran

6. Gender Bias in Machine Translation: The Case of Filipino-English Translation in Google Translate

Divine Angeli Endriga and Francisco Rosario, Jr.

7. The Biblical, the Moral, and the Legal: Juxtaposing Filipino/Tagalog Translations of Biblical Passages and Local Views on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Jem R. Javier and Madilene B. Landicho

8. On the Translatability of Filipino Modals and its Impact on Disaster Communication

Mary Ann G. Bacolod

9. Lost for Words: The Untranslatability of Some Tagalog Words and Phrases

Jesus Federico C. Hernandez

Biography

Riccardo Moratto is Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation, Shanghai International Studies University, China.

Mary Ann G. Bacolod is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.