The editors of the TERTIUM Linguistic Journal kindly invite submissions for its special issue (2025) dedicated to the theme of
MIGRATION, TRANSLATION, IDENTITY
Migrations identified with change of residence, cross-border movement, travel in search of a "better life" have accompanied people since the dawn of time. Voluntary or forced, conditioned by socio-political, economic and cultural factors, they leave their mark on the lives of migrant individuals and communities. They may also profoundly affect the quality and lifestyle of the host societies, their cultural traditions and assumptions, shaping and re-evaluating their attitudes toward the Stranger, the Other, the Different. The effect of migration, especially that on a larger scale, is the so-called third space, which in social terms becomes an arena of mutual contacts, influences, confrontations, exchanges between cultures, not infrequently also antagonisms as a “contact zone” (Pratt, 1992) where cultures clash and compete. In this space acculturation processes take place both at individual level (assimilation, integration marginalization, separation) and collective one (exclusion, segregation, ethnic melting pot, pluralism and multiculturalism) (Berry, 1992). These complex social processes, combined with the individual experience of migration, become a stimulus for new activities in the social, political, economic and cultural spheres, including various forms of artistic expression. Under their influence, new artefacts of material culture are born. Communication forms, styles and practices are being transformed. In this context, translation and interpreting activity is of profound importance as one of the main factors shaping the processes of transferring not only texts, but also social practices, ideas, values, knowledge. Treating translation broadly, not only as a linguistic mode of communication, but also metaphorically as a translation between different extra-linguistic systems of experience and knowledge, and in line with “the outward turn in translation studies” (Bassnett & Johnston, 2019: Zwischenberger 2019), we invite submissions representing a plurality of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches both within the scope of TS, linguistics and literary studies and beyond.
Providing the authors with the opportunity to take a creative, interdisciplinary approach to the proposed issue, we suggest the following issues as subjects for reflection and scrutiny:
Migration, texts, multimedia
- Translation of migrant literature: contexts, challenges, limitations and expectations
- Literature in the diaspora, literary representations of migrant experience
- "Migration" genres in translation (fiction and non-fiction, memory literature, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries)
- Migration in language systems (code-mixing, code switching, translingualism) as a translation problem
- Representations of migration in other media forms and their intralingual, interlingual and intersemiotic translations
- Translation and minority languages and cultures
Migrants, interpreters, institutions
- Interpreters and translators in migration and refugee crisis situations: challenges, requirements, support for interpreters
- Migrants as community and public service interpreters, child language brokering
- The activities of translators in exile and in the diaspora
- Interpreters and cooperation with (international) aid institutions
- Volunteer and activist translators and interpreters
- Ethical aspects of community and public service interpreting
Migration, social practices, knowledge transfer
- Translation, multilingualism and translingual practices
- Migration and scholarship, the role of migration and translation in transfer of knowledge and methodology
- Self-translation and bilingual creativity
- (Self-)translation of scholarship
- Migration experience and identity
- Migration of ideas in the digital age
- Transfer of translation studies concepts and methodologies across disciplinary, cultural and national traditions
Authors interested in publishing in the journal are invited to prepare a text using the template available on the journal’s website (www.journal.tertium.edu.pl), and then submit it through the platform after registering / logging in as an author.
The deadline for submission of texts – 31 September 2024.
All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. Publication in the journal does not involve any fees and published text are available in free open access.
Planned date of publication – 2025.
Contact the Guest Editors at:
Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst: maria.mocarz-kleindienst@kul.pl
Joanna Dybiec-Gajer: joanna.dybiec-gajer@up.krakow.pl
Journal website: https://journal.tertium.edu.pl/
Journal publisher’s website: https://tertium.edu.pl/