Fidelity has always been a source of controversy for translators. This increases when dealing with indirect poetry translation, particularly between languages belonging to distant cultural communities. Style, aesthetic features, culture-bound words and figurative expressions may be lost when translated from a translated poem, which affects the goal of the original poet. The present paper uses a Translation Quality Assessment model to study a particular instance of indirect poetry translation and the issue of fidelity to the original. It assumes that indirect translation of poetry is feasible and that the question of fidelity depends on both the translator’s competence and the quality of the mediating poem. Based on a comparative study of a translation of Goethe’s poem ‘Ein Gleichnis’ (‘A Parable’) from French into Arabic, the paper shows that indirect poetry translation is possible even between distant languages. KEYWORDS: Poetry; Indirect Translation; Fidelity; Adaptation; Literature; Translation Quality Assessment

The field called economic analysis of law or law and economics is an interesting case of epistemic translation, which illustrates well some of the difficulties involved and allows us to identify ways of performing it effectively. The economic analysis of law tends to irritate legal scholars, who complain that it disrespects legal discourses. The idea that this might be a form of translation has been invoked several times, in particular, to articulate the problem of how to transport knowledge from the realm of economics to law: how to make economic insights legally relevant. The following four techniques have been used to solve this interepistemic translation problem: implicit translation; regimentation; terminological approach; inferentialist approach. This article presents these techniques and examples of their application in the economic analysis of law, before going on to discuss their relationship with the conceptual foundations of the epistemic translation. KEYWORDS: Epistemic Translation; Law and Economics; Interepistemic Translation Problem; Irritation; Relevance; Equivalence

O objetivo deste artigo é a identificação das estratégias utilizadas na tradução para legendagem em português da língua ficcional Nadsat no filme A Clockwork Orange (1971), disponível na plataforma de streaming HBO Max, tendo em conta tanto as particularidades do meio audiovisual como o facto de esta ser uma língua característica da história, das personagens e do mundo em que se insere. Apesar de existirem vários estudos sobre a tradução do Nadsat em literatura, não existem estudos sobre a sua tradução para o audiovisual, muito menos para o português. Concluiu-se que a estratégia menos utilizada foi a Manutenção, pelo que se observou uma padronização de grande parte dos termos em Nadsat havendo, consequentemente, uma grande diminuição de instâncias de língua ficcional na legendagem em português. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Tradução Audiovisual; Legendagem; Estratégias de Tradução; Nadsat; Língua Ficcional

Verbal idioms pose a significant challenge for automatic translation and interpreting systems due to their idiomatic nature and contextual variability. In this context, and with the aim of analyzing the effectiveness of automatic interpreting of phraseology using the integrated Yandex corpus, this research seeks to evaluate the quality of automatic interpreting through examples of verbal idioms extracted from Canal Sur Noticias 24 horas on YouTube using a voice recognition and interpreting application provided by Yandex. To conduct the study, 50 frequently used verbal idioms were selected from Spanish news and their automatic interpreting into Russian were analyzed. Finally, the results were compared in both languages to determine the accuracy and naturalness of the resulting automatic interpreting. KEYWORDS: Automatic Interpreting; Phraseology; Verbal Idioms; Interpreting Evaluation

John Cage's interdisciplinary compositions have been studied more from a musical than a literary perspective. The latter, as this paper seeks to demonstrate, is of particular interest to address certain concepts related to the latest trends in Translation Studies (Campbell and Vidal, 2025, 2024, 2019; Bennett, 2024; Vidal Claramonte, 2024, 2017; Blumczynski, 2023; Minors, 2023; Meylaerts and Marais, 2023; Lee, 2022; Gambier and Van Doorslaer, 2021). In this sense, this paper aims to offer a panoramic overview of this relationship between vocal scores and translational practices through the analysis and translation into Spanish of three of Cage's works: Aria (1958), Solo for Voice 35 (1970) and Sonnekus2 (1985). Despite the formal specificities of each of these works for solo voice, all of them constitute, from different perspectives, a clear line of study to delve deeper into the current paradigm shift of Translation Studies as a discipline. In addition to sounds and visuals, the literary nature of these three works means that translation goes beyond linguistic barriers and experiments with other semiotic systems, tackling concepts such as originality, authorship, interpretation and representation. KEYWORDS: Solo Voice; Intersemiotic Translation; Multimodal Adaptation; Interdisciplinarity; Intertextuality; Interdisciplinarity

Today, Japanese comics, or manga, are one of the most famous types of comics in the world. However, its translation remains a relatively under-researched topic in the field of translation studies. The translation of onomatopoeia in manga, a distinctive and vital feature of the medium, presents difficulties both linguistically and graphically. Derived from the interaction between language and image, they are used to convey the sounds and circumstances of the story. Thus, considering that the Portuguese language has a very limited use of onomatopoeia, especially when compared to the Japanese language, the main purpose of this article is to identify and compare the main translation strategies adopted by Portuguese and Brazilian translators when dealing with this issue, as well as to determine whether the strategies used between the two differ significantly. KEYWORDS: Japanese Comics; Manga Translation; Onomatopoeias; Translation Problems

Translation and Objects: Rewriting Migrancy and Displacement through the Materiality of Art, Ma Carmen África Vidal Claramonte, London and New York: Routledge, 2025, 162 pp., £35.99 (paperback) ISBN 9781032795195, £32.39 (ebook) ISBN 9781003488170.