Jan Buts

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jan Buts is involved.

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Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development

Edited by Jan Buts, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley

Special issue of Translation Spaces 12:2 (2023) v, 181 pp.

Buts, Jan 2025 Reconsidering case study research in translation studies In Search of Round Trips: Travelling concepts in translation studies and beyond, Zwischenberger, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 21–39 | Article

It is common in translation studies (TS) to present research as a case study. Even though the phrase frequently figures in titles, the prominence of the case study label seldom corresponds to an explanation of required characteristics. Concerns regarding the bounding of cases, as well as… read more

Buts, Jan 2023 Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse Babel 69:5, pp. 708–711 | Review

Buts, Jan, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley 2023 Indirect translation and sustainable development: Introduction Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development, Buts, Jan, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley (eds.), pp. 167–176 | Review article

In August 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled Why is this colorful little wheel suddenly everywhere in Japan? (Dooley and Ueno 2022). The little wheel refers to the logo of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a United Nations (UN) initiative at the core of Agenda 2030,… read more

Buts, Jan 2021 Targeted individuals: Personalised advertising and digital media translation Translation Spaces 10:2, pp. 181–201 | Article

This article argues that researchers in Translation Studies may proactively aim to understand the consequences of an envisaged merger between targeted advertising and automated translation. Functional translation software is widely available online, and several platforms now perform instant… read more