Heriot-Watt University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Heriot-Watt University*

The internal context of bilingual processing

Edited by John Truscott & Michael Sharwood Smith

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Consciousness research | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. | monograph

Translation and Interpreting Pedagogy in Dialogue with Other Disciplines

Edited by Sonia Colina & Claudia V. Angelelli

Subjects Language teaching | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Current Topics, 90] 2017. v, 154 pp. |

Gaze in Human-Robot Communication

Edited by Frank Broz, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu & Yukiko Nakano

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Communication Studies | Interaction Studies

[Benjamins Current Topics, 81] 2015. xv, 162 pp. |

The Sign Language Interpreting Studies Reader

Edited by Cynthia B. Roy & Jemina Napier

Subjects Interpreting | Signed languages | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 117] 2015. xviii, 419 pp. | course book

The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Edited by Claudia V. Angelelli

Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Current Topics, 66] 2014. v, 140 pp. |

Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction

Edited by Lola Cañamero & Ruth Aylett

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 74] 2008. xxiii, 296 pp. | edited volume

Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins

Edited by Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung & Michael Sharwood Smith

Subjects Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 47] 2008. xxv, 250 pp. | edited volume

Rethinking Communicative Interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons

Edited by Colin B. Grant

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 116] 2003. viii, 330 pp. | edited volume

Napier, Jemina 2025 Linguistic ethnography in interpreting studies

Keywords: qualitative research | multi-methods | linguistic ethnography | interpreting studies | sign language interpreting

In: Field Research on Translation and Interpreting, Rogl, Regina, Daniela Schlager & Hanna Risku (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 165] pp. 55–73 | open access

García, Daniel Hernández, Nancie Gunson, Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Christian Dondrup, Weronika Sieińska, Marta Romeo & Oliver Lemon 2025 Evaluating multi-party interactions with social robots using large language models and multi-modal systems

Keywords: multiparty interaction | non-verbal behavior | situated interactions | social robotics | large language models

Interaction Studies 26:3 pp. 422–476 | article

Chiluwa, Innocent 2025 On the pragmatics of praising: How gender movements in Africa celebrate women’s achievements in politics and society

Keywords: discourse | gender | praise | praise-singing | speech acts | politics | representation | society | Africa

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 23 pp. | article

Chouc, Fanny 2025 Volunteer conference interpreting: Its possible benefits and place in the training journey towards professional interpreting

Keywords: VCI (volunteer conference interpreting) | employability | practitioners | curriculum | training | VCI (interprétation de conférence bénévole) | employabilité | praticiens | programme d’études | formation

FORUM 24:1 pp. 37–58 | article

Tipton, Rebecca, Jemina Napier, Natalia Rodríguez Vicente, Alys Young, Sarah Vicary & Celia Hulme 2025 ‘Just interpret’: Problematising demands and controls for effective interprofessional working in statutory mental health assessments

Keywords: controls | demands | interprofessional working | Mental Health Act assessments | signed and spoken-language interpreting

Interpreting 27:2 pp. 221–251 | article | open access

Zheng, Zhe (Zoey) & Luke Lawrence 2025 Duoethnographic inquiry into translingualism and language teacher identity: Challenges and opportunities

In: Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics, Habibie, Pejman & Richard D. Sawyer (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 8] pp. 188–205

Turner, Graham H. 2024 Review of Fitzmaurice (2021) and Winston & Fitzmaurice (2021)

Interpreting 26:1 pp. 144–148 | book review

Angelelli, Claudia V. & Federica Ceccoli 2023 Communication in child language brokering: Role expectation and role performance

Keywords: childhood studies | child language brokering | ad-hoc interpreting | role expectation | role performance

Translation and Interpreting Studies 18:2 pp. 167–190 | article

Napier, Jemina & Sandra Hale 2023 Exploring mixed methods in interpreting research: An example from a series of studies on court interpreting

Keywords: court interpreting | deaf jurors | sign language interpreters | research methods | mixed methods

In: Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies): A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker, Zwischenberger, Cornelia, Karin Reithofer & Sylvi Rennert (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 160] pp. 22–43

Haualand, Hilde, Maartje De Meulder & Jemina Napier 2023 Unpacking sign language interpreting as a social institution: The missing macro perspective?

Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:3 pp. 351–358 | review article

Skinner, Robert & Jemina Napier 2023 ‘Help is on the way’: (In)accessible policing in the UK through sign language interpreting

Keywords: deaf | interpreter | police | language access | criminal justice | accommodations

Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:3 pp. 455–477 | article | open access

Napier, Jemina 2021 

Interpreting 24:1 pp. 147–154 | book review

Angelelli, Claudia V. 2020 Community/Public-service interpreting as a communicative event: A call for shifting teaching and learning foci

Keywords: interpreters’ communicative competence | interpreted communicative event | situated practice | speech communities | diversity of learners

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 6:2 pp. 114–130 | article

Kenny, Dorothy & Marion Winters 2020 Machine translation, ethics and the literary translator’s voice

Keywords: literary translation | translator’s voice | textual voice | contextual voice | translator style | neural machine translation

Translation Spaces 9:1 pp. 123–149 | article

Monteoliva-García, Eloísa 2020 The collaborative and selective nature of interpreting in police interviews with stand-by interpreting

Keywords: stand-by interpreting | police interview | negotiation | multimodality

Interpreting 22:2 pp. 262–287 | article

Pfeiffer, Kerstin, Michael Richardson & Svenja Wurm 2020 Translaboration in the rehearsal room: Translanguaging as collaborative responsibility in bilingual devised theatre

Keywords: translaboration | collaboration | devised theatre | bilingual theatre | translanguaging

Target 32:2 pp. 358–379 | article

Napier, Jemina, Rosemary Oram, Alys Young & Robert Skinner 2019 “When I speak people look at me”: British deaf signers’ use of bimodal translanguaging strategies and the representation of identities

Keywords: sign language | deaf | professional | identities | translation | sign language interpreters | translanguaging | bimodal bilingualism

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:2 p. 95 | article | open access

Lee Zi-ying & Liao Min-Hsiu 2018  The “Second” Bride : The retranslation of romance novels

Keywords: retranslation | romance novels | paratexts | retraduction | romans sentimentaux | paratextes

Babel 64:2 pp. 186–204 | article

Dong, Jiqing & Graham H. Turner 2018 The ergonomic impact of agencies in the dynamic system of interpreting provision: An ethnographic study of backstage influences on interpreter performance

In: Exploring the Situational Interface of Translation and Cognition, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen & Birgitta Englund Dimitrova (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 101] p. 95

Böser, Ursula & David LaRooy 2018 Interpreter-mediated investigative interviews with minors: Setting the ground rules

Keywords: child interviewing | interpreting | interview formats | reflexive coordination | vulnerable interlocutors

Translation and Interpreting Studies 13:2 pp. 208–229 | article

de Pedro Ricoy, Raquel, Rosaleen Howard & Luis Andrade Ciudad 2018 Walking the tightrope: The role of Peruvian indigenous interpreters in prior consultation processes

Keywords: indigenous interpreters | prior consultation | Peru | users’ expectations

Target 30:2 pp. 187–211 | article

Wurm, Svenja 2018 From writing to sign: An investigation of the impact of text modalities on translation

Keywords: sign language translation | literacy practices | multimodality | affordance | New Literacy Studies | recorded sign language

Translation and Interpreting Studies 13:1 pp. 130–149 | article

Turner, Graham H. 2017 Franz Pöchhacker (Ed.). (2015) Routledge encyclopedia of interpreting studies

Interpreting 19:1 pp. 142–144 | book review

Turner, Graham H. & Andrew J. Merrison 2016 Doing ‘understanding’ in dialogue interpreting: Advancing theory and method

Keywords: construal | grounding | Map Task | interactional analysis | sign language | dialogue interpreting

Interpreting 18:2 pp. 137–171 | article

Dong, Jiqing & Graham H. Turner 2016 The ergonomic impact of agencies in the dynamic system of interpreting provision: An ethnographic study of backstage influences on interpreter performance

Keywords: ergonomics | work process | interpreting agencies | public service interpreting | professionalisation

Translation Spaces 5:1 p. 97 | article

Liao, Min-Hsiu 2016 Translating time and space in the memorial museum

Keywords: temporality | museum translation | national identity | framing strategies | narratives | space

Translation Spaces 5:2 pp. 181–199 | article

Hale, Sandra Beatriz & Jemina Napier 2016 “We’re just kind of there”: Working conditions and perceptions of appreciation and status in court interpreting

Keywords: court interpreting | working conditions | court protocols | professional status | quality of interpreting

Target 28:3 pp. 351–371 | article

Broz, Frank, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu & Yukiko Nakano 2015 Introduction

In: Gaze in Human-Robot Communication, Broz, Frank, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu & Yukiko Nakano (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 81] pp. vii–xvi

Zhang, Meifang, Hanting Pan, Yao Li, Yue Sun, Shuyun Quan, Wenyu Wei, Yiming Zhi, Sien Zhou & Min-Hsiu Liao 2015 语篇内外的机构权力: 澳门非典公告以及翻译案例研究 [Institutional power in and behind discourse]

Keywords: 语篇分析 | 翻译学研究 | 语言 | 权力

Target 27:3 | translation

Kim, Mira, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Min-Hsiu Liao, Xiangyu Fang, Liuhao Huang, Jiaping Luan, Yi Mao, Wanyue Zhang & Hong Zhao 2015 翻译研究的前进方向: 文本视角 [Ways to move forward in translation studies]

Keywords: 主位推进 | 主位 | 文本意义 | 翻译选择

Target 27:3 pp. 335–350 | translation

Valdeón, Roberto A., Min-Hsiu Liao, You-Hsuan Chen, Huan Li, Pin-Hsuan Lin, Xinling Liu, Yingqian Tang & Xiaowei Zou 2015 （不）稳定源语，翻译与新闻制作 [(Un)stable sources, translation and news production]

Keywords: 新闻翻译 | 稳定和不稳定源语 | 框架

Target 27:3 pp. 440–453 | translation

Bontempo, Karen & Jemina Napier 2014 Evaluating emotional stability as a predictor of interpreter competence and aptitude for interpreting

In: Aptitude for Interpreting, Pöchhacker, Franz & Minhua Liu (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 68] p. 87

Williamson, Lee & Raquel De Pedro Ricoy 2015 The translation of wordplay in interlingual subtitling: A study of <i>Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis</i> and its English subtitles

Keywords: humor | translation strategies | General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) | wordplay | subtitling

Babel 60:2 pp. 164–192 | article

Pym, Anthony, Min-Hsiu Liao, Jiaxin Lin, Si-Yuan Wang, Yidan Liu & Yingzhi Forsyth 2014 译者协会 – 从守门人到社群组织 [Translator associations – from gatekeepers to communities]

Keywords: 翻译协会 | 翻译者社会学 | 行业化 | 专业化

Target 26:3 pp. 466–491 | translation

Hessmann, Jens, Eeva Salmi, Graham H. Turner & Svenja Wurm 2011 Developing and transmitting a shared interpreting research ethos: EUMASLI – A case study

In: Advances in Interpreting Research: Inquiry in action, Nicodemus, Brenda & Laurie Swabey (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 99] pp. 177–198

O'Rourke, Bernadette & Fernando F. Ramallo 2011 The native-non-native dichotomy in minority language contexts: Comparisons between Irish and Galician

Keywords: minority languages | non-native speakers | Irish language | Galician language | native speakers

Language Problems and Language Planning 35:2 pp. 139–159 | article

Sharwood Smith, Michael 2010 Metalinguistic processing and acquisition within the MOGUL framework

In: The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics, Everaert, Martin B.H., Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen & Arjen Zondervan (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150] pp. 327–344

Winters, Marion 2009 Modal particles explained: How modal particles creep into translations and reveal translators’ styles

Keywords: corpus methodologies | F. Scott Fitzgerald | modal particles | translator style | méthodologies d’analyse de corpus | F.Scott Fitzgerald | particules modales | style du traducteur

Target 21:1 pp. 74–97 | article

Dickinson, Jules & Graham H. Turner 2008 12. Sign Language interpreters and role conflict in the workplace

In: Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting: Definitions and dilemmas, Valero Garcés, Carmen & Anne Martin (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 76] pp. 231–244

Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung & Michael Sharwood Smith 2008 Introduction

In: Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins, Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung & Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 47] pp. xv–xxv

Sharwood Smith, Michael 2008 Understanding attrition within a MOGUL framework

Keywords: interdisciplinary approach | Jackendoff’s model of the language faculty | modularity

In: Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives, Köpke, Barbara, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer & Susan Dostert (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 33] pp. 39–51

Sharwood Smith, Michael & John Truscott 2008 Full transfer full access: A processing-oriented interpretation

In: Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace & Martha Young-Scholten (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] pp. 201–216

Trenkic, Danijela 2002 Form–meaning connections in the acquisition of English articles

EUROSLA Yearbook 2:1 pp. 115–133 | article

Escudero, Paola & Michael Sharwood Smith 2001 Reinventing the native speaker: or ‘What you never wanted to know about the native speaker so never dared to ask.’

EUROSLA Yearbook 1:1 pp. 275–286 | article

McLaren, Yvonne 2002 Text structure and politeness in French and English corporate brochures

Keywords: Argumentation | English/French | Contrastive textology

Languages in Contrast 2:2 pp. 231–254 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.