Political Discourse, Media and Translation

Christina Schaeffner is Professor of Translation Studies at Aston University, Birmingham. Her main research areas are political discourse and translation, metaphor in translation and translator training; she has published widely on these topics. Her most recent publications include “Political Discourse and Translation” in Li Wei and Vivian Cook’s edited volume Contemporary Applied Linguistics: Language for the Real World Volume 2 (London and New York: Continuum 2009), “Does translation hinder integration?” in Forum (7(1)/2009), and “‘The Prime Minister said…’: Voices in translated political texts” in SYNAPS (22/2008). She is a staff member of CETRA, an annual international doctoral programme in Translation Studies.

Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick and a leading world expert in Translation Studies. Her books include Translation Studies (3rd ed. 2002), Constructing Cultures (1996) with Andre Lefevere, Postcolonial Translation (1999) with Harish Trivedi, The Translator as Writer (2006) with Peter Bush and Translation in Global News (2009) with Esperanca Bielsa. She is currently writing a book on trends in translation studies in the twenty-first century.