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Unity in Diversity
Editors: Lynne Bowker, Michael Cronin, Dorothy Kenny and Jennifer Pearson

Translation studies has been characterised by a great deal of diversity in recent years. Does this diversity mean that the different branches of the discipline have become so specialised that they can no longer talk to each other? Would translation studies be strengthened or weakened by the search for or the existence of unifying principles? This volume brings together contributions from feminist theory, screen translation, terminology, interpreting, computer-assisted translation, advertising, literature, linguistics, and translation pedagogy in order to counter the tendency to partition or exclude in translation studies. Machine translation specialists and literary translators should be found between the same book covers, if only because the nomadic jouneying of concepts is often the key to intellectual discovery and renewal. Unity in Diversity offers a valuable overview of the current state of translation studies from both theoretical and practical perspectives and makes an important contribution to debates on the future direction of the discipline.