Special Issue: Translating Threat

Edited by: Maria Sidiropoulou

Introduction

Introduction:

Cross-cultural pragmatics and interpersonal dynamics through translation

Maria Sidiropoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Contributions

Manipulating Threat in Medical Advertising

Daphne Charalampopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Representing Disability in English and Greek Legal Discourse

Emilia Papadopoulou and Maria Sidiropoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Translating Academia:

Shaping the Academic Author

Chrysoula Gatsiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Shaping Political Ideologies in the UK BBC and the Russian BBC News Service

Pigi Chaidouli (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Translating Threat and Power Distance in Pushkin’s ‘The Fisherman and the Goldfish’

Eleni Piperidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Carmilla into Greek:

Translating Horror and Queerness

Maria Episkopou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Portraying Intellectual Disability through Translating Fiction

Vasiliki Papakonstantinou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Translating Threat in Greek Versions of Othello

Stavroula Apostolopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Rendering Patriarchy through Gendered Translator Gaze in Romeo and Juliet

Dionysia Nikoloudaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Explicitness as Threat in Love Poetry Translation

Eleni Sichidi (National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Subtitling and Dubbing Intimacy and Threat:

Harry Potter in Greek

Maria-Nikoleta Blana and Maria Sidiropoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)