Publications

Research in LINCS focuses on our established strengths of translation and interpretation, as well as building the emerging areas of living cultural heritage and language policy.

Positive mental health outcomes experienced by signing deaf adults in Australia
McRae, R., Backholer, K., Adam, R. & O’Shea, A., Jun 2026, In: SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. 9, 100775.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Eco-translation practice in resisting AI’s ecological harms: Towards a preliminary action framework
Riemland, M., 31 May 2026, In: Encounters in Translation. 5
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Voices of Algeria: Diglossia and Cultural Meaning in Subtitled Film
Merakchi, K., 11 Apr 2026, (Unpublished).
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Through deaf eyes: factors influencing suicidal behavior among deaf adults
McRae, R., Zorbas, C., O’Shea, A., Adam, R. & Backholer, K., 2 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. enag009.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Teaching deaf, deafblind and hard-of-hearing students: practical steps that benefit everyone
Kusters, A., 18 Mar 2026, Times Higher Education.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Countering the Trampoline Effect in Pivot Subtitling: A Case Study of a Reciprocal Collaborative Intervention
Merakchi, K., 27 Feb 2026.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review
From Post-Editors to Ethical Buffers: Rethinking Subtitling in the Age of AI
Merakchi, K., 16 Feb 2026, (Submitted) In: Language and Intercultural Communication .
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Pivot subtitling: The Achilles’ heel of AI-mediated audiovisual translation
Merakchi, K., 16 Feb 2026, (Submitted) Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Post-Editing Metaphorically Dense Texts: Toward Textual and Cultural Sensitivity in AI Assisted Translation
Rutherford, J. & Merakchi, K., 16 Feb 2026, (Submitted) Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
The International Sign Paradox
Kusters, A., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Multilingual Matters.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
New Voices in Children's Literature in Translation Studies
Harrington Fernández, O., van Meerbergen, S., Alderete Diez, P., Lindgren, C. & Alfvén, V., 2026, (Accepted/In press) John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Speech-to-speech assessment vs text-based assessment of simultaneous interpreting: Tapping into the potential of large language models and the metrics of machine translation quality estimation in enabling automatic assessment
Wang, X. & Wang, B., 16 Dec 2025, In: Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies. 24, p. 23-54 32 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
(Re-)defining the popular music "Gay icon" in media coverage of Dalida and Mylène Farmer
Tinker, C., 2 Dec 2025, Queer Realms of Memory: Archiving LGBTQ Sites and Symbols in the French National Narrative. Bouhamer, S., Provencher, D. M. & Schroth, R. K. (eds.). Liverpool University Press, p. 207-218 12 p. (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; vol. 109).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Subtitling Stories, Situating Learning: A Case Study of Industry Collaboration in AVT Training through African Women’s Films
Merakchi, K., 4 Nov 2025, (Unpublished).
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Are metaphors explicited in translation?
Merakchi, K. & Rogers, M., 1 Nov 2025, (Submitted) In: The Journal of Specialised Translation.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Subtitlers: Who Are they
Merakchi, K., 1 Oct 2025, Institute of Translation and Interpreting.
Research output: Other contribution
The Translator in the AI Era: An “Ethical Buffer*”?
Merakchi, K., 9 Apr 2025, Mona Baker.
Research output: Other contribution
Speech-to-Text Technology for Code Switching in Arabic: Progress and Challenges
Merakchi, K., Abou Houcine, D., Mimoune, K., Ezzini, S. & Ahmidouche, N., 7 Apr 2025, (Unpublished).
Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review
The environmental costs of AI: Exploring the environmental impacts of AI in language services and the steps we can take as a profession to address them
Riemland, M., 7 Mar 2025
Research output: Other contribution
Landscape, Time, and the Philosophy of Michel Serres
Kelly, J., 2025, In: The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy. 41, 1, p. 24-40
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Beginnings of the Interpreter Training Program in Kosovo
Hoti, S., Adam, R. & Liikamaa, A., Jan 2025, International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator and Interpreter Education. Napier, J., Webb, S. & Adam, R. (eds.). 2nd ed. Washington DC : Gallaudet University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Who is talking now? Role expectations and role materializations in interpreter-mediated healthcare encounters
Angelelli, C., 8 Apr 2024, Interpreter-Mediated Healthcare Communication. Sarangi, S. (ed.). Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press, p. 22-43 21 p. (Studies in Communication in Organisations and Professions).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Theorizing sustainable, low-resource MT in development settings: Pivot-based MT between Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan languages
Riemland, M., Dec 2023, In: Translation Spaces. 12, 2, p. 231-254
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Translation and technocracy in development: defining the potentials and limitations of translation technology for Maya inclusion in Guatemalan development
Riemland, M., 12 Dec 2022, In: Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies. 21, p. 203–221
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
US voter rights in translation: Semantic shifts in Spanish renderings of “felony”
Riemland, M., 10 Nov 2022, In: Translation Spaces. 11, 2, p. 303-328 26 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
This is IS. Episode one: International Sign Unpacked
Kusters, A. (Producer), 10 Mar 2022
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Minority sign language communities in attrition – Where do minority sign languages come from and why do they go into decline?
Adam, R. & Buchanan, B., 16 Aug 2021, p. 6-7.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Minority sign language shift in two countries: Canada (Maritime Sign Language and American Sign Language) and Australia (Australian Irish Sign Language and Auslan)
Adam, R. & Buchanan, B., 16 Jun 2021.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Minority sign language shift within majority sign language communities
Adam, R. & Buchanan, B., 24 Mar 2021.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
A profession retrograde?
Adam, R., 23 Nov 2020
Research output: Other contribution
Deaf people and Covid-19: on hard-won rights and shifted priorities
Adam, R. & Kusters, A., 27 Oct 2020
Research output: Other contribution
Sign Languages and deaf people during Covid-19: how you can help in the classroom
Adam, R., 22 Sept 2020
Research output: Other contribution
Vu d’ailleurs: Epidémie de Covid-19 et participation des professionnels sourds dans l’espace académique
Kusters, A., Adam, R., Fletcher, M. & Quinn, G., 18 Aug 2020
Research output: Other contribution
The Covid-19 pandemic and deaf participation in meetings in the academic workplace
Kusters, A., Adam, R., Fletcher, M. & Quinn, G., 8 May 2020
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Translating the Deaf self
Napier, J., Young, A. & Oram, R., Jan 2017, Heriot-Watt University.
Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Sociolinguistics: Language contact of sign languages
Adam, R., Mar 2016, The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopaedia. Gertz, G. & Boudreault, P. (eds.). 1st ed. Sage
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Deaf Interpreters in Europe - a comprehensive European survey of the situation of Deaf Interpreters today
Sommer Lindsay, M., 2016
Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Døve og døvblevne mennesker Hverdagsliv og levevilkår
Translated title of the contribution: Deaf and deafened people – everyday life and life conditions. Larsen, L., Sommer Lindsay, M. & Bengtsson,, S., 2014, The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) .
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Deaf Interpreters
Adam, R., 2014, Literacies of the Challenged: to construct truly a inclusive society. Sasaki, M. (ed.). Kuroshio Publishing Co. Ltd.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Døvfødte børn og deres livsbetingelser
Translated title of the contribution: Deaf children – everyday life and life conditionsBengtsson, S., Larsen, L. & Sommer Lindsay, M., 2014
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
BSL SignBank
Fenlon, J., Cormier, K., Rentelis, R., Schembri, A., Rowley, K., Adam, R. & Woll, B., 2014, UCL Press.
Research output: Other contribution
American Sign Language
Quinto-Pozos, D. & Adam, R., 2014, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact. Grant, A. P. (ed.). Oxford University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Sign Language Contact
Quinto-Pozos, D. & Adam, R., 2013, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Bayley, R., Cameron, R. & Lucas, C. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 379-400
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Deaf interpreters in mental health settings – some reflections and thoughts for Deaf interpreter education
Morgan, P. & Adam, R., 2012, In Our Hands: Educating Healthcare Interpreters. Swabey, L. & Malcolm, K. (eds.). Gallaudet University Press, p. 190-208
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Language contact and borrowing
Adam, R., 2012, Sign Language: An International Handbook. Pfau, R., Steinbach, M. & Woll, B. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 841-861 (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Sign language comprehension: Insights from misperceptions of different phonological parameters
Adam, R., Orfanidou, E., McQueen, J. M. & Morgan, G., 2011, Formational Units in Sign Languages. Channon, R. & van der Hulst, H. (eds.). Nijmegen, Vol. 3. p. 87-106 (Sign Language Typology Series; vol. 3).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters 2010 Conference proceedings: SYNERGY: Moving Forward Together
Adam, R. (Editor) & Stone, C. (Editor), 2011, European forum of sign language interpreters (efsli).
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Name signs in New Zealand Sign Language and Australian Sign Language
McKee, D., McKee, R. L., Schembri, A. & Adam, R., 2000, Diversity and Unity: Proceedings of the XIII World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf, Brisbane, July 25-31, 1999. Brisbane : Australian Association of the Deaf Inc
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
The Test Battery for Australian Sign Language Morphology and Syntax Project: Noun-verb pairs in Auslan
Schembri, A., Wigglesworth, G., Johnston, T., Leigh, G., Adam, R. & Barker, R., 2000, Selected papers from the Australasian Deaf Studies Research Symposium, Renwick College, August 22-32, 1998. Schembri, A., Napier, J., Beattie, R. & Leigh, G. (eds.). Sydney: North Rocks Press, p. 99-118
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Research in Progress: The Auslan Lexicography Project at Renwick College
Johnston, T., Adam, R. & Schembri, A., 1997, In: Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf. 3, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review