Research Tendencies in Translation and Interpreting Studies and Intercultural Communication

Abstract

The rise of globalization, the strengthening of multicultural societies, the abolishment of borders, technological advances, social networks, and the increasing political power of economic forces are all unmistakable occurrences that are characteristic of the 21st century. Communication within these multilingual societies comes across new developments and challenges that inevitably modify each type of intervention. All these issues are subjects of growing interest within the scope of research and training in Translation and Interpreting Studies and intercultural communication. This article focuses on some of these issues. First, the author will briefly write about some overarching themes in Translation and Interpreting Studies (T&IS). This will be followed by an overview of the influence of some disciplines. After that, some tendencies in research methods used in T&IS will be explore. Finally, an example of crossing domains in research and practice in T&IS in the 21 st century will be presented taking as an example the Master Thesis from the MA in Intercultural Communication, Public Service Interpreting and Translation (Chinese-Spanish) offered at

Reflections on theses of experimental reports for the master of translation and interpreting in China (2012–2022)

“…Final papers are one of the instruments and documents from which bibliometric information can be obtained. For the bibliometric analysis of research papers, researchers selected various factors such as topics, abstracts, references, appendix (Yang and Zhu, 2017), thesis topics (Yang and Zhu, 2017; Valero-Garcés, 2018), frequently explored research topics, highly cited papers, influential authors, scholarly distributions, and relevant funding sponsors (Huang and Liu, 2019), co-authorship (Rovira-Esteva et al , 2020), publication output, author, institution, country, keyword and citations (Yan, 2021), authorship patterns, collaboration and publishing trends (Rodríguez-Faneca and Cuida, 2021). This study examines the production period of MTI theses of experimental reports from 2012 to 2022 and draws on factors such as total number, distribution across universities, supervision model and research content to provide an overview of thesis production patterns.…”