Alexa Alfer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexa Alfer is involved.

Titles

Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in Collaboration

Edited by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger

Special issue of Target 32:2 (2020) vi, 216 pp.

'Translaboration': Translation as Collaboration

Edited by Alexa Alfer

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 3:3 (2017) v, 132 pp.

Articles

Zwischenberger, Cornelia and Alexa Alfer 2022 Trans labor ation: Translation and labour Translation in Society 1:2, pp. 200–223 | Article

Translaboration, a concept derived from blending ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration,’ has the concept of labour at its core. This paper investigates the dimension of labour in online collaborative translation, relates translational labour to Arendt’s categories of work and action, and proceeds to… read more

Alfer, Alexa 2020 The translaborative case for a translational hermeneutics Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in Collaboration, Alfer, Alexa and Cornelia Zwischenberger (eds.), pp. 261–281 | Article

This paper takes the notion of translaboration as a stepping stone for an exploration of some of the recent debates about translational hermeneutics. In doing so, it aims to expand translaboration’s focus beyond concrete collaborations between multiple translators, or authors and translators,… read more

Alfer, Alexa 2017 Entering the Translab: Translation as collaboration, collaboration as translation, and the third space of ‘translaboration’ 'Translaboration': Translation as Collaboration, Alfer, Alexa (ed.), pp. 275–290 | Article

Collaborative translation practices have been receiving increased scholarly attention in recent years and have also given rise to attempts to conceptualise translation as an inherently collaborative phenomenon. In a parallel movement, though to a lesser extent, research from disciplines with a… read more