Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals

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This paper explores the museum visitor experience as a form of translation. It argues that if a given exhibition can be seen as a cultural translation, then it is also true that the visitor’s reading of that exhibition constitutes a furt…

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This article analyzes the recently renewed, permanent exhibition of the Royal Museum for Central Africa
(AfricaMuseum) in Tervuren, Belgium. The museum is seen as a translational space, considering the parallels between, on the one
hand, curat…

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This paper addresses the challenge museums of catastrophic history face, striving to translate between history and
memory in creating a meaningful and sensitive experience for individual visitors, not only evoking the past but also impacting t…

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According to Statistics Estonia, in 2022, there were 170 museums in Estonia with 277 visitor sites, all of which
contribute to preserving, shaping, and communicating our memory and identity, translating our culture to the people of Estonia and…

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This contribution, which sits at the intersection of translation studies and museum studies (MS), seeks to explore multiple forms of interpretation developed by museums, whereby interpretation is considered, from an MS perspective, as a variet…

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The scholarly debate in translation studies and related fields has extensively addressed the definition, scope,
and limitations of translation. We contend that museum translation, which encompasses both the traditional “translation prope…