Introduction: (re-)conceptualizing translation in translation studies

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Acknowledgements

The guest editors would first express their gratitude to Piotr Blumczynski and the editorial team of Translation Studies for their professional guidance and invaluable support throughout the editorial process. Our thanks also to the anonymous peer reviewers for the insightful and constructive reports that have helped to shape the content of the articles and improve their overall quality. Finally, our acknowledgement extends to Yves Gambier for contributing his inspiring response, and to Don Starr for meticulously proofreading the introduction.

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Notes on contributors

Binghan Zheng

Binghan Zheng is Professor of Translation Studies at Durham University, where he is the Director of the Centre for Intercultural Mediation. His research interests include cognitive translation/interpreting studies, neuroscience of translation, and comparative translation/interpreting studies. His recent publications appeared in journals such as Target, Across Languages and Cultures, Journal of Pragmatics, Brain and Cognition, Perspectives, Translation and Interpreting Studies, and Foreign Language Teaching and Research. He has guest edited the special issue “Towards Comparative Translation & Interpreting Studies” (2017) for Translation and Interpreting Studies (with Sergey Tyulenev), and his monograph Translation Process Research: Theories, Methods and Issues is forthcoming in 2023.

Sergey Tyulenev

Sergey Tyulenev is Professor of Translation Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, the Editor of Routledge Introductions to Translation and Interpreting, and a member of the advisory boards of the journals Translation and Interpreting Studies and Translation in Society. He has published widely in leading translation and interpreting studies journals and among his major publications are Theory of Translation (2004); Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies (2011); Translation and the Westernization of Eighteenth-Century Russia (2012); Translation and Society: An Introduction (2014); Translation in the Public Sphere (2018). His personal website is tyulenev.org.

Kobus Marais

Kobus Marais is Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has published three monographs, namely Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach (2014), A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality (2018) and Trajectories of Translation: The Thermodynamics of Semiosis (2023) and an edited volume Translation beyond Translation Studies (2022). In addition, he has published edited volumes with Ilse Feinauer, Translation Studies beyond the Postcolony (2017), and with Reine Meylaerts, Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations (2018), Exploring the Implications of Complexity Thinking for Translation Studies (2021), and The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts (2023). His research interests are translation theory, complexity thinking, semiotics/biosemiotics and development studies.