Melanie Ann Law Favo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Melanie Ann Law Favo is involved.

Journal

Target

International Journal of Translation Studies

Edited by Haidee Kotze

ISSN 0924-1884 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9986

Articles

Law Favo, Melanie Ann 2024 Editors and world Englishes: Exploring (the interaction between) editors’ sociolinguistic profiles and the norm-providing sources they use for editing work English World-Wide 45:1, pp. 61–93 | Article

The impact of editorial intervention on the language of published written texts has been the topic of a handful of recent empirical investigations within the world Englishes paradigm. These studies have demonstrated that the linguistic changes that editors make to texts written in world… read more

Law Favo, Melanie Ann and Haidee Kruger 2018 Chapter 11. How editors read: An eye-tracking study of the effects of professional editorial experience and task instruction on reading behaviour Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research, Lacruz, Isabel and Riitta Jääskeläinen (eds.), pp. 241–265 | Chapter

Professional editors and non-editors read two texts for two different purposes (reading for comprehension and reading in preparation for editing) while their eye movements were recorded. The focus of this exploratory study is the relationship between the predictor variables of editorial experience… read more