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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2026

Mustapha Taibi
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Western Sydney University
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With this new volume on the topic of community translation, its editor Mustapha Taibi provides us with a new milestone in the research into an increasingly global activity that has developed as a response to communicative requirements in societies all over the world where social inequalities can be avoided or at least reduced by overcoming language barriers. While community interpreting has become a mainstream topic both in translation studies and in society at large, community translation is still a neglected topic in research, in education and, above all, in public administration in most countries. Mustapha Taibi has become one of the most influential, if not already the leading researcher in our discipline on the topic of community translation. In this book he managed to present, in addition to his own chapter, other important authors with their views and conceptions of community translation as well as with interesting reports on case studies from different parts of the world. It is interesting to note that variations and differences in how we perceive and shape the concept of community translation are openly addressed in several chapters of this book. Since the chapters cover a broad spectrum of perspectives including education and training, quality assurance, societal factors, and reports on case studies and concrete projects in Spain, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia, this book will serve as an important resource and as a reference handbook on the topic of community translation and will contribute to a mainstreaming effect in this regard.

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  • Foreword
  • Edited by Mustapha Taibi, Western Sydney University
  • Book: Translating for the Community
  • Online publication: 10 October 2026
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  • Edited by Mustapha Taibi, Western Sydney University
  • Book: Translating for the Community
  • Online publication: 10 October 2026
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  • Foreword
  • Edited by Mustapha Taibi, Western Sydney University
  • Book: Translating for the Community
  • Online publication: 10 October 2026
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