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Abstract: Traditional definitions of translation invariably include a border over or through which translation is ‘carried across’. Studies in semiotics suggest that the borders tend to be more multiple and permeable than traditionally conceived. What if we erase the border completely and rethink translation as an always ongoing process of every communication?

Siri Nergaard met Naoki Sakai at the NSTS – Nida School on Translation Studies – in Misano Adriatico, Italy in May 2012, where he presented the paper “Translation and Bordering: Heterolingual Address and Transnationality”.

How does one reflect on translation? For Susan Bassnett, one of the world’s foremost thinkers in translation studies – it is a field she helped into being, no less – this is a question answered incrementally, and over time. Her Reflections on Translation collects critical pieces that appeared, for the most part, in the ITI Bulletin; their significance immediately connects to the author’s name, but the usefulness of – and often, sheer enjoyment in – reading them owes also to an adopted style and approach to communicating what’s really important.