Across Languages and Cultures publishes original articles and reviews on all sub-disciplines of Translation and Interpreting (T/I) Studies: general T/I theory, descriptive T/I studies and applied T/I studies. Special emphasis is laid on the questions of multilingualism, language policy and translation policy. Publications on new research methods and models are encouraged. Publishes book reviews, news, announcements and advertisements.

The journal "Across Languages and Cultures" publishes original articles and reviews on all sub-disciplines of Translation and Interpreting (T/I) Studies, including general T/I theory, descriptive T/I studies, and applied T/I studies. It places special emphasis on issues related to multilingualism, language policy, and translation policy. Publications on new research methods and models are encouraged. The journal also includes book reviews, news, announcements, and advertisements.

《Across Languages and Cultures》期刊发表关于翻译与口译研究所有子学科的原创文章和评论，包括一般翻译与口译理论、描述性翻译与口译研究以及应用翻译与口译研究。特别强调多语言环境、语言政策和翻译政策等问题。鼓励发表关于新研究方法和模型的文章。此外，期刊还会刊登书评、新闻、公告和广告。

Across Languages and Cultures

Abstract Since the early 2000s when the possibility of a network approach in translation studies (TS) was noted, social network analysis (SNA) has been applied to explore the relational complexity of various translational agents in practical, industrial, academic, and educational settings. Through a systematic review, this paper shows that SNA's major contributions to TS have been mainly in areas of translation history, translation economy, translation scientometrics, translation education, and online collaborative translation. It also identifies how SNA has adapted to and complemented other methodological and theoretical approaches in TS under two paradigms, i.e., explanatory structuralist and exploratory complex paradigms. In light of the review, strengths and weakness of these paradigms are discussed, and suggestions are provided for further research on their confluence, which is characterized by a less reductionist analytic model with appropriate explanatory power in a closer symbiosis between complexity theory and SNA.

Yizhu Li

Wenlu Li

Pei Ma

How social network analysis informs translation studies: A systematic review

社会网络分析如何为翻译研究提供启示：一项系统综述

Abstract The French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) corpus is the cornerstone of a unique multilingual data system that includes four distinct corpora. The first is a reference corpus containing dialogical LSFB data produced by deaf signers, which is also translated into written French, and the second one is a comparable multimodal corpus of Belgian French containing dialogical data produced by hearing native speakers. The other two corpora are made up of interpreted data, namely a parallel bidirectional corpus of LSFB &gt; French data produced by hearing bimodal interpreters and another unidirectional parallel corpus of French &gt; LSFB co-interpreted data produced by hearing and deaf interpreters working in tandem. This paper aims to describe these four corpora and to provide an overview of previous contrastive research drawing on their data and applications which have been developed so far. A new study contrasting reformulation structures in semi-spontaneous LSFB dialogical data and co-interpreted LSFB data is presented in order to exemplify how these corpora can be further compared to shed light on unknown issues to date such as the specificities of co-interpretation.

Sílvia Gabarró-López

Laurence Meurant

Nicolas Hanquet

Crossing boundaries: Using French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and multimodal French corpora for contrastive, translation and interpreting studies

跨越边界：运用法国比利时手语（LSFB）和多模态法语语料库进行对比、翻译和口译研究

Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny

Guest Editor's Foreword

客座编辑前言

Olívia Seidl-Péch

Translation in transition. Human and machine intelligence

翻译的转变：人类与机器智能

Abstract Passive constructions in English ( be+past participle ) and French ( être+past participle ) were inventoried on a text-per-text basis in a bi-directional French/English corpus. The corpus consisted of 70 (35 × 2) original source texts in each language, 70 (35 × 2) target texts produced by human translators, and the same number of target texts obtained by machine translation with DeepL Pro. Passive constructions were found to be about 70% more frequent in original English than in original French. In the corpora of translated texts, no large disparities were observed, with the exception of French texts translated from English by DeepL, which contained around 40% more passive constructions than original French texts. Correlations between frequencies of analogous passive constructions in pairs of source and target texts were statistically significant and stronger for machine translations than for human translations. Manual analysis of random samples of source/target pairs showed less regular correspondence between the two analogous constructions as counterparts for one another, and greater diversity among alternative translation counterparts in human translation compared with machine translation.

Daniel Henkel

Passive constructions in En/Fr human and machine translation

英/法被动语态在人机翻译中的应用

Abstract We present a study of discourse connectives and discourse relations in English parallel texts, i.e. in written and spoken originals, as well as translation and interpreting from German. For this, we apply automatic procedures to annotate discourse connectives and relations they trigger in a parallel corpus. We look at distributions of various connectives and discourse relations, comparing spoken and written mode, as well as original and translated or interpreted language production. Furthermore, we analyse the translation patterns in terms of translation entropy. We link our observations to the phenomena of explicitation and implicitation. We find that in both interpreting and translation, explicitation and implicitation patters are affected by the cognitive complexity of the discourse relation signalled by the connective. Moreover, we also show that the difference in the specificity of the same connectives in interpreting and translation also depends on the type of relation they trigger.

Abbreviation	Acr
Journal Impact	0.88
Quartiles(Global)	LINGUISTICS(Q2)

ISSN	1585-1923, 1588-2519
h-index	23

Publication Information	Publisher: Akademiai Kiado，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2007，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:10.00%， Gold OA Rate: 7.89%

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How social network analysis informs translation studies: A systematic review

Crossing boundaries: Using French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and multimodal French corpora for contrastive, translation and interpreting studies

Guest Editor's Foreword

Translation in transition. Human and machine intelligence

Passive constructions in En/Fr human and machine translation

Crossing boundaries: Using French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and multimodal French corpora for contrastive, translation and interpreting studies

Guest Editor's Foreword

Translation in transition. Human and machine intelligence

Passive constructions in En/Fr human and machine translation

Capturing variation of discourse relations in English parallel data through automatic annotation and alignment