Translation in Society
Main information
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: CNKI Scholar ; Dimensions ; IBR/IBZ ; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique ; Linguistics Abstracts Online ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ) ; MLA International Bibliography ; Translation Studies Bibliography (TSB )
The aim of this essentially interdisciplinary journal is to explore translation as a key social relation in a deeply interconnected world.
Translation in Society offers a platform for the growing amount of research in translation studies that draws on sociological theories and methodologies. It also seeks to contribute to the growing visibility of translation within the humanities and the social sciences more broadly, fostering new research that reveals the social relevance of translation in a wide variety of domains, while promoting at the same time self-reflexivity on the translational aspects of knowledge-production in disciplines such as sociology, political science, policy studies and anthropology.
Translation in Society welcomes the following types of articles in all areas of translation research:
- studies of translation with a theoretical and/or methodological framework that draws on sociology, whereby translation also covers other text-modifying practices such as interpreting, adaptation, rewriting, etc.
- theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the role of translation in society
- interdisciplinary accounts that illustrate the connections between translation studies, sociology and/or other social sciences
The journal also produces special issues on topics of general interest in the humanities and the social sciences, seeking to foster interdisciplinary debates about how translation relates to and intervenes in the most pressing socio-political issues of our times. It is addressed to an international audience interested in social aspects of translation in the broadest sense.
Translation in Society publishes its articles Online First.
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Issues
Online-first articlesVolume 4 (2025)
Volume 3 (2024)
Volume 2 (2023)
Volume 1 (2022)
Editorial info
Subscription Info
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
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| Volume 5 (2026): 2 issues; ca. 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.
Available back-volumes
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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒4; 2022‒2025) | 8 issues; 1,000 pp. | EUR 663.00 | EUR 788.00 |
| Volume 4 (2025) | 2 issues; 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 3 (2024) | 2 issues; 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 2 (2023) | 2 issues; 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 1 (2022) | 2 issues; 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Author info
Authors wishing to submit articles for publication in TRIS are requested to do so through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper. If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editor by e-mail: Luc.vanDoorslaerkuleuven.be
Correspondence concerning the book reviews section should be addressed directly to the Review Editors: Paola Gentile (pgentileunits.it) and Giuseppe Palumbo (gpalumbounits.it)
Ethics
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Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement.
Please also note the guidance on (the declaration of) the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Rights and Permissions
Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format.
For information on authors' rights, please consult the rights information page.
Open Access
Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (excl. tax). To arrange this, please contact openaccessbenjamins.nl as soon as your paper has been accepted for publication. More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.
Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on which articles qualify.
For information about permission to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access or self-archiving), please consult the rights information page.
If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.
Archiving
John Benjamins Publishing Company has an agreement in place with Portico for the archiving of all its online journals and e-books.
Special Issue Proposals
The journal regularly publishes special issues on topics that are of interest to its aims and scope. If you would like to suggest a topic for a special issue please contact the editors.
Forthcoming special issues:
- 2026 - Translating Knowledge in, by and for Indigenous Communities: Practices of Epistemic Defiance. Guest editors: Christina Korak, Edson Krenak & Rafael Schögler