Issue Editors: Philip Balma, Stefano Boselli, Viola Miglio

Managing Editor: Viola Miglio

Volume 3 is the first issue of the journal after its migration to the eScholarship platform, and it is devoted to the thorny problems of translating from and into dialects, which present a further level of complexity given that the choice of their use in literature is always a precise and conscious one by the author, hence it represents a ‘necessary foreign’ element in the original texts. The papers published here all address various aspects of rendering this ‘necessary foreign’ in translation. Most of them involve issues of dialect translation into/from Italian dialects. The special issue editors felt not only that the problems of translating dialects are a neglected facet of translation studies, but also that the extremely rich dialectal diversity of the Italian linguistic situation provided an excellent testing ground to highlight these issues. Volume 3 provides the Translation Studies community with an organic contribution addressing an important aspect of the discipline.

Translation Studies Journal

PREFACE TO VOLUME 3 - THE NECESSARY FOREIGN: TRANSLATING DIALECTS