Introduction: Translation Peripheries. The Paratextual Elements In Translation

The notion of paratext is an unquestionably important consideration for many lines of research in translation studies: the history of translation, literary translation, audiovisual translation, and the analysis of ideological discourse in translation or self-translation. This inexplicable short-age of studies on paratexts in translations was one of the reasons why the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona decided to organise the 7th International Conference on Translation in 2010, which on this occasion was organised under the title Paratextual Elements in Translation. Many of the ideas presented in this book date back to this conference, which served as a forum and platform for debate for all those researchers interested in the links between paratextuality and translation in their various forms and aspects