Sara Rovira-Esteva
Biographic Data
| ID | 5654717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Rovira-Esteva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Rovira-Esteva |
| SIGNATURE | ROVIRA-ESTEVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7647-6417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aplicaciones de los corpus en la enseñanza del chino como lengua extranjera
Aunque el interés por el chino ha experimentado un gran auge en nuestro país en las últimas décadas, el aumento en el número de estudiantes no ha venido acompañado de un incremento significativo de la investigación, en general, y en lingüística de corpus, en particular, que acabe transfiriéndose a la sociedad en forma de innovación docente. Así pues, para llenar este vacío y ante las necesidades y nuevos retos que enfrentamos para la enseñanza de…
AD in China at the crossroads
In light of the growing demand for audio description (AD) in China, both in quantitative and qualitative terms, coupled with the persistent shortage of qualified AD scriptwriters, this article advocates for AD translation from Spanish to Chinese, a type of indirect translation, as an alternative approach to addressing this issue, potentially benefiting from localisation techniques(Jankowska et al., 2017; Remael & Vercauteren, 2010). This article …
Open access in translation and interpreting studies
Open access (OA) is now a complex multifaceted phenomenon and one of the hottest topics under debate extending to other actors beyond academia. OA has been growing lately not only for ethical or ideological reasons, but also due to the pressure of formal mandates from public research funders. Many studies have shown that OA research outputs have greater citation impact as compared to similar toll-access (TA) ones, thus introducing a more pragmati…
Investigar la traducción de productos culturales chinos
In a context in which Digital Humanities are changing traditional research methodologies, this article presents two open access databases on Chinese literature and cinema, two key areas of Chinese cultural production. The information contained in these two resources, available to the entire scientific community, is not only valuable for Translation Studies scholars (because they include data on their introduction in the Spanish sociocultural cont…
Television in Catalan for All
People with disabilities or functional diversity form a significant part of the population (15%) and access to communication is a right recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CDPD) ratified by Spain in 2007. This study aims, on the one hand, to analyse the state of the art of accessibility services that are currently offered in a sample of seven Catalan-language TV stations; and, on the other hand,…
Broadcasting and Accessibility Services Currently Offered for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers by Catalan-language Broadcasters
This article presents the main results of a user-centered study which seeks to provide an overview of accessibility services for the deaf and hard of hearing on offer from a representative sample of Catalan-language broadcasters. The study had three objectives. First, to analyze the type of accessibility services offered, basically captions and Catalan Sign Language interpreting, both in linear broadcasts and video-on-demand services. Second, to …
Television in Catalan for All
People with disabilities or functional diversity form a significant part of the population (15%) and access to communication is a right recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CDPD) ratified by Spain in 2007. This study aims, on the one hand, to analyse the state of the art of accessibility services that are currently offered in a sample of seven Catalan-language TV stations; and, on the other hand,…
Chinese cinema in Spain
Audiovisual translation has become one of the main means of communication between cultures. Although the number of Chinese films that reach Spanish audiences is rather limited, the cinema is still a very powerful tool in bridging the gap between these two cultures. This paper aims to give an overview of the situation of Chinese cinema in Spain through audiovisual translation. In order to do so, a database of 500 Chinese films translated into Span…
La estructura temática en chino y español
Although the concept of theme or topic has been widely researched both in Chinese and Spanish, no studies have been carried out about their thematic structure from the perspective of contrastive linguistics. Taking Loar’s theory (2011) as a starting point, we have carried out a contrastive analysis and the results show that Chinese has not only a higher tendency to use topicalised constructions than Spanish, but also a wider range of construction…
Bibliometric and bibliographical research in Translation Studies
Sink or swim, publish or perish, there seems to be no way to live and let live, as Cole Porter sang. We live directly in the middle of a system, created by economists, in which accountability is th
Publishing and impact criteria, and their bearing on Translation Studies
This paper questions the current concept of quality as used in research assessment rankings and peer review, with special reference to the link often established between impact and the way this impact is measured in the form of citation counting. Taking translation studies as a case study, we will offer a two-level approach to reveal both the macro- and micro-level biases that exist in this regard. We will first review three key aspects related t…
Translation Peripheries
A contrastive analysis of the main benchmarking tools for research assessment in translation and interpreting
Research assessment has become one of the most taxing exercises that scholars have to endure on a regular basis. Publications seem to be the currency used nowadays for everything from getting funds for a PhD, to access to an academic post and indeed promotion. Research assessment results are also of key importance in university departments, as funding and resources are increasingly linked to research results. In the Department of Translation and …
Orientalism and occidentalism
This article identifies the principal myths and misconceptions surrounding the Chinese language and, by means of discourse analysis, shows how they have been expressed and become entrenched in the academic world, both in China and in the West, despite the evidence which undermines the premises on which these myths are founded. We also show how these views originated from applying a Western linguistic model to descriptions and reforms of the Chine…
Translating Chinese Pop Fiction
This paper questions the assumption that pop literature is easier to translate than high literature. It uses a real-life example, namely, the translation from Chinese into Catalan of Chun Sue's autobiographical novel Beijing wawa as a case study. It is argued that translational difficulties arise not only because of its wealth of culture-specific references but also because of the characteristics of the author's literary style, where most of the …
A contrastive analysis of the main benchmarking tools for research assessment in translation and interpreting
Research assessment has become one of the most taxing exercises that scholars have to endure on a regular basis. Publications seem to be the currency used nowadays for everything from getting funds for a PhD, to access to an academic post and indeed promotion. Research assessment results are also of key importance in university departments, as funding and resources are increasingly linked to research results. In the Department of Translation and …
Bibliometric and bibliographical research in Translation Studies
Sink or swim, publish or perish, there seems to be no way to live and let live, as Cole Porter sang. We live directly in the middle of a system, created by economists, in which accountability is th
Translating Chinese Pop Fiction
This paper questions the assumption that pop literature is easier to translate than high literature. It uses a real-life example, namely, the translation from Chinese into Catalan of Chun Sue's autobiographical novel Beijing wawa as a case study. It is argued that translational difficulties arise not only because of its wealth of culture-specific references but also because of the characteristics of the author's literary style, where most of the …
Publishing and impact criteria, and their bearing on Translation Studies
This paper questions the current concept of quality as used in research assessment rankings and peer review, with special reference to the link often established between impact and the way this impact is measured in the form of citation counting. Taking translation studies as a case study, we will offer a two-level approach to reveal both the macro- and micro-level biases that exist in this regard. We will first review three key aspects related t…
Orientalism and occidentalism
This article identifies the principal myths and misconceptions surrounding the Chinese language and, by means of discourse analysis, shows how they have been expressed and become entrenched in the academic world, both in China and in the West, despite the evidence which undermines the premises on which these myths are founded. We also show how these views originated from applying a Western linguistic model to descriptions and reforms of the Chine…
Translating Chinese Pop Fiction
This paper questions the assumption that pop literature is easier to translate than high literature. It uses a real-life example, namely, the translation from Chinese into Catalan of Chun Sue's autobiographical novel Beijing wawa as a case study. It is argued that translational difficulties arise not only because of its wealth of culture-specific references but also because of the characteristics of the author's literary style, where most of the …
Orientalism and occidentalism
This article identifies the principal myths and misconceptions surrounding the Chinese language and, by means of discourse analysis, shows how they have been expressed and become entrenched in the academic world, both in China and in the West, despite the evidence which undermines the premises on which these myths are founded. We also show how these views originated from applying a Western linguistic model to descriptions and reforms of the Chine…
A contrastive analysis of the main benchmarking tools for research assessment in translation and interpreting
Research assessment has become one of the most taxing exercises that scholars have to endure on a regular basis. Publications seem to be the currency used nowadays for everything from getting funds for a PhD, to access to an academic post and indeed promotion. Research assessment results are also of key importance in university departments, as funding and resources are increasingly linked to research results. In the Department of Translation and …
Translation Peripheries
Bibliometric and bibliographical research in Translation Studies
Sink or swim, publish or perish, there seems to be no way to live and let live, as Cole Porter sang. We live directly in the middle of a system, created by economists, in which accountability is th
Publishing and impact criteria, and their bearing on Translation Studies
This paper questions the current concept of quality as used in research assessment rankings and peer review, with special reference to the link often established between impact and the way this impact is measured in the form of citation counting. Taking translation studies as a case study, we will offer a two-level approach to reveal both the macro- and micro-level biases that exist in this regard. We will first review three key aspects related t…
La estructura temática en chino y español
Although the concept of theme or topic has been widely researched both in Chinese and Spanish, no studies have been carried out about their thematic structure from the perspective of contrastive linguistics. Taking Loar’s theory (2011) as a starting point, we have carried out a contrastive analysis and the results show that Chinese has not only a higher tendency to use topicalised constructions than Spanish, but also a wider range of construction…
Television in Catalan for All
People with disabilities or functional diversity form a significant part of the population (15%) and access to communication is a right recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CDPD) ratified by Spain in 2007. This study aims, on the one hand, to analyse the state of the art of accessibility services that are currently offered in a sample of seven Catalan-language TV stations; and, on the other hand,…
Broadcasting and Accessibility Services Currently Offered for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers by Catalan-language Broadcasters
This article presents the main results of a user-centered study which seeks to provide an overview of accessibility services for the deaf and hard of hearing on offer from a representative sample of Catalan-language broadcasters. The study had three objectives. First, to analyze the type of accessibility services offered, basically captions and Catalan Sign Language interpreting, both in linear broadcasts and video-on-demand services. Second, to …
Television in Catalan for All
People with disabilities or functional diversity form a significant part of the population (15%) and access to communication is a right recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CDPD) ratified by Spain in 2007. This study aims, on the one hand, to analyse the state of the art of accessibility services that are currently offered in a sample of seven Catalan-language TV stations; and, on the other hand,…
Chinese cinema in Spain
Audiovisual translation has become one of the main means of communication between cultures. Although the number of Chinese films that reach Spanish audiences is rather limited, the cinema is still a very powerful tool in bridging the gap between these two cultures. This paper aims to give an overview of the situation of Chinese cinema in Spain through audiovisual translation. In order to do so, a database of 500 Chinese films translated into Span…
Investigar la traducción de productos culturales chinos
In a context in which Digital Humanities are changing traditional research methodologies, this article presents two open access databases on Chinese literature and cinema, two key areas of Chinese cultural production. The information contained in these two resources, available to the entire scientific community, is not only valuable for Translation Studies scholars (because they include data on their introduction in the Spanish sociocultural cont…
Open access in translation and interpreting studies
Open access (OA) is now a complex multifaceted phenomenon and one of the hottest topics under debate extending to other actors beyond academia. OA has been growing lately not only for ethical or ideological reasons, but also due to the pressure of formal mandates from public research funders. Many studies have shown that OA research outputs have greater citation impact as compared to similar toll-access (TA) ones, thus introducing a more pragmati…
AD in China at the crossroads
In light of the growing demand for audio description (AD) in China, both in quantitative and qualitative terms, coupled with the persistent shortage of qualified AD scriptwriters, this article advocates for AD translation from Spanish to Chinese, a type of indirect translation, as an alternative approach to addressing this issue, potentially benefiting from localisation techniques(Jankowska et al., 2017; Remael & Vercauteren, 2010). This article …
Aplicaciones de los corpus en la enseñanza del chino como lengua extranjera
Aunque el interés por el chino ha experimentado un gran auge en nuestro país en las últimas décadas, el aumento en el número de estudiantes no ha venido acompañado de un incremento significativo de la investigación, en general, y en lingüística de corpus, en particular, que acabe transfiriéndose a la sociedad en forma de innovación docente. Así pues, para llenar este vacío y ante las necesidades y nuevos retos que enfrentamos para la enseñanza de…
Computer Science (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Catalan (4 works) · China (4 works) · History (4 works)