The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts

This is the first handbook to focus on translation theory, based on an innovative and expanded definition of translation and on the newest perspectives in the field of Translation Studies.

Reine Meylaerts is Full Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium, and is currently (2017-2021) vice-rector of research policy. She was review editor of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies (2011-2017) and former Secretary General (2004-2007) of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST). She is the author of various books, including co-editor, with Kobus Marais, of Complexity thinking in translation studies: Methodological considerations (Routledge, 2018).

Kobus Marais is professor of translation studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language practice of University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He published two monographs, Translation theory and development studies: A complexity theory approach (2014) and A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: The emergence of social-cultural reality (2018) with Routledge. He also published two edited volumes, one with Ilse Feinauer, Translation studies beyond the postcolony (Cambridge Scholars, 2017), and one with Reine Meylaerts, Complexity thinking in translation studies: Methodological considerations (Routledge 2018).