Advancing interdisciplinarity in empirical translation research

Authors

Tomáš Svoboda (ed)
Olga Nádvorníková (ed)
Věra Kloudová (ed)

Synopsis

This volume reflects the vast range of research sub-fields in contemporary translation and interpreting studies, including specialized translation, machine translation, and audio-visual translation. At the same time, the chapters illustrate the intrinsic interdisciplinary foundations of translation studies, highlighting its connection to specific linguistic subfields and applied branches. Among the linguistic fields, the strongest ties here are with contrastive linguistics and corpus linguistics, while its connection to practical applications is evident particularly in its focus on developing effective translator training methods.



Chapters

  • Introduction
    Tomáš Svoboda, Olga Nádvorníková, Věra Kloudová
  • Data visualization in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation and interpreting studies
    Volker Gast, Vahram Atayan, Martin Schwingenheuer
  • Navigating translation effort through translation process research database to unravel dimensions of script and text direction
    Ali Saeedi, Longhui Zou, Michael Carl
  • A corpus-driven investigation of translation strategies for prenominal complex adjectives
    Rossella Resi
  • Schodiště z mramoru and the marble staircase: English divergent counterparts of Czech postmodifying prepositional phrases
    Markéta Malá
  • Using diachronic corpora to translate emerging or new specialized fields
    Cécile Cuchet, Pascaline Dury
  • The drafting style of employment agreements and employment offer letters – a corpus-based approach
    Patrizia Giampieri
  • Translating Rick & Morty’s audiovisual novum parody: strategies and effects
    Alice Ray
  • "Default translation": how much free of fault? An exploratory comparison of NMT and human translation
    Renata Kamenická
  • A comparison of human simultaneous interpreting and automatic simultaneous speech translation as a basis for further research
    Věra Kloudová, Petra Mračková Vavroušová, Dávid Javorský, Ondřej Bojar
  • Introduction
    Chapter 1
  • Data visualization in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation and interpreting studies
    Chapter 2
  • Navigating translation effort through translation process research database to unravel dimensions of script and text direction
    Chapter 3
  • A corpus-driven investigation of translation strategies for prenominal complex adjectives
    Chapter 4
  • Schodiště z mramoru and the marble staircase: English divergent counterparts of Czech postmodifying prepositional phrases
    Chapter 5
  • Using diachronic corpora to translate emerging or new specialized fields
    Chapter 6
  • The drafting style of employment agreements and employment offer letters – a corpus-based approach
    Chapter 7
  • Translating Rick & Morty’s audiovisual novum parody: strategies and effects
    Chapter 8
  • "Default translation": how much free of fault? An exploratory comparison of NMT and human translation
    Chapter 9
  • A comparison of human simultaneous interpreting and automatic simultaneous speech translation as a basis for further research
    Chapter 10

Author Biographies

Tomáš Svoboda

Tomáš Svoboda is Head of German Department in the Institute of Translation Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, from which he graduated in English and German translation. He earned his Ph.D. in Translation Studies in 2004. From 2004 to 2007 Tomáš Svoboda worked as an in-house translator and training coordinator for the Czech Language Department of the Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission, Luxembourg, and subsequently for four years as a contractor for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. He lectures on technical and institutional translation, tools and technologies, and translation history in the Institute of Translation Studies. He is an active translator and auditor under the ISO 17100 standard. His publications cover translation quality, institutional and technical translation, translation technology, future of the translation profession as well as translation history. Tomáš is member of the Executive Board of the Czech Union of Translators and Interpreters, a coordinator of FIT Europe (Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs) Technology Group, and Board Member of the European Masters in Translation (EMT) network.

Olga Nádvorníková

Olga Nadvornikova is an associate professor at the Institute of Romance Studies, Charles University in Prague. Olga does research in Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Translation Studies and Syntax.

Věra Kloudová

Věra Kloudová is a researcher at Charles University in Prague, where she works at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics. She holds a Ph.D. in German Studies and has a background in Czech and German philology. Her research focuses on translation studies, translation quality, human and machine translation evaluation, post-editing, corpus linguistics, and contrastive linguistics.

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Published

September 10, 2026

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Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing

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2364-8899
Copyright (c) 2025 Tomáš Svoboda, Olga Nádvorníková; Volker Gast; Věra Kloudová; Vahram Atayan, Martin Schwingenheuer, Ali Saeedi, Longhui Zou, Michael Carl, Rossella Resi, Markéta Malá, Cécile Cuchet, Pascaline Dury, Patrizia Giampieri, Alice Ray, Renata Kamenická, Petra Mračková Vavroušová, Dávid Javorský, Ondřej Bojar

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