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376 gap statements mined from Translation Studies and Practices papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,791 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • The researchers note that legal translation is a complex and delicate process that requires a high level of understanding of context, recipient, and purpose. The study highlights the need for more research on the challenges of translating legal terminology, particularly when linguistic and legal differences exist between the source and target languages.

    Translating Traffic Law Terminology in Courtroom Discourse: A Case Study of Judge Frank Caprio’s Oral Arguments in Court · 2026 · DOI

  • The study also identifies the challenge of ensuring that the pedagogy is evidence-led and based on classroom evidence. The study notes the challenge of addressing the gap in translator education, where learners need to develop skills in identifying ambiguity, comparing alternatives, selecting evidence and explaining why one formulation is preferable to another.

    Designing Immersive Translator Education: A Learning Analytics Case Study and Evidence-Led Virtual Reality Pedagogical Proposal · 2026 · DOI

  • Contribution: This lacuna represents a gap in the knowledge base that warrants attention and provides a rationale for the current study.

    Presenting a pre-translation text analysis of Chinua Achebe’s novel A Man of the People · 2026 · DOI

  • These issues were primarily attributed to gaps in specialized training, limited interdisciplinary input, and the lack of standardized glossaries.

    Translating English‑Language Cosmetic Catalogues into Persian: A Thematic and Content Analysis of Health Information and Product Marketing Across Cultural Contexts · 2026 · DOI

  • Despite advancements in artificial intelligence, machine translation's impact on tourism remains underexplored.

    Machine Translation and Communication Accommodation in Hotel–Guest Interactions · 2026 · DOI

  • However, the extent to which the typological characteristics of source languages shape linguistic simplification remains underexplored.

    Converge or diverge? An entropy-based analysis of source language effects on linguistic simplification in multilingual simultaneous interpreting · 2026 · DOI

  • The ways in which the image of the artificial intelligence translator represents translational predicaments and technological limitations remain underexplored. The study of the translator image is a relatively new area of research.

    The Translator Image in Film: A Case Study of C-3PO · 2026 · DOI

  • C-3PO's limited agency remains constrained by programming and narrative necessity, and the paper does not fully explore how real-world AI translation systems could develop comparable cultural mediation capabilities.

    The Translator Image in Film: A Case Study of C-3PO · 2026 · DOI

  • The research highlights the need for further investigation into the role of cognitive bias in post-editing.

    Human or machine? Do source beliefs shape cognitive bias in post-editing? · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper suggests future research directions in the application of translation theories in digital media. The study highlights the importance of using traditional translation theories to guide machine translation systems and adapting products to target cultures.

    Translation Theory Knowledge and Its Specific Applications in Modern Technology · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap between the rapid development of modern technology and the need for guidance from traditional translation theories. The study highlights the importance of traditional translation theories in improving machine translation quality and adapting products to target cultures.

    Translation Theory Knowledge and Its Specific Applications in Modern Technology · 2026 · DOI

  • The research aims to address the challenge of balancing fidelity and adaptability in translation.

    Construal Recreation in Song Lyrics Translation: Cognitive Operations and Motivations — A Case Study of Liu Yong’s Wanghaichao · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of examination of the results of ecological translation from the perspective of ecological criticism. The lack of research on the subtitle ecological translation of typical Chinese cultural programs.

    Study on Subtitle Translation of China in Classics from the Perspective of Three-Dimensional Transformation of Eco-translatology · 2026 · DOI

  • The translation of legal doublets from English into Arabic is a challenging task. Prior work has not fully addressed the complexities of translating legal doublets.

    TRANSLATING THE LEGAL ENGLISH BINOMINALS INTO ARABIC · 2026 · DOI

  • Challenges faced by Eastern and agglutinative languages, including Uzbek, in terms of morphological complexity and limited digital linguistic resources.

    PHILOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATION SYSTEMS BASED ON PARALLEL CORPORA · 2026 · DOI

  • The concept of time is not only a universal category but also a culturally marked phenomenon. There is a need for cultural interpretation in translation rather than simple word-for-word equivalence.

    THE COMPARATIVE LINGUOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT "TIME" AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN TRANSLATION STUDIES · 2026 · DOI

  • Limited attention to evaluating machine translation performance on culturally embedded classical texts. Lack of studies on the effect of prompting strategies on translation performance.

    Evaluating Machine Translation of the Shan Hai Jing: An MQM-Based Analysis of Google Translate vs. ChatGPT with Prompting Effects · 2026 · DOI

  • The study suggests that future research should focus on the development of AI-driven translation tools that can consider cultural and cognitive frameworks. The paper argues for the need for further research on the role of human translators in the AI era.

    ANALYSIS OF PRAGMATIC LOSS AND STRATEGIES FOR ITS ELIMINATION IN ENGLISH-UZBEK TRANSLATION: A BAKERIAN PERSPECTIVE · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper recognizes the need for a systematic methodology to eliminate pragmatic loss in English-Uzbek translation.

    ANALYSIS OF PRAGMATIC LOSS AND STRATEGIES FOR ITS ELIMINATION IN ENGLISH-UZBEK TRANSLATION: A BAKERIAN PERSPECTIVE · 2026 · DOI

  • The limited digital linguistic resources for Eastern and agglutinative languages.

    PHILOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATION SYSTEMS BASED ON PARALLEL CORPORA · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could investigate the effectiveness of VR treatment effects, - Additional studies could examine the generalizability of the findings to other populations…

    Designing Immersive Translator Education: A Learning Analytics Case Study and Evidence-Led Virtual Reality Pedagogical Proposal · 2026 · DOI

  • The complexity of distributed agency in MT ecosystems, - The tension between traditional translation ethics and AI ethics, - The lack of visibility into model parameters and training data…

    Transparency and Accountability in Machine Translation: Are New Ethical Norms Emerging in the Age of AI? · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of enforcement mechanisms for low-risk systems such as MT, - The absence of institutional implementation of theoretical and empirical…

    Transparency and Accountability in Machine Translation: Are New Ethical Norms Emerging in the Age of AI? · 2026 · DOI

  • In spite of the multi- and plurilingualism, the antiquity of the practice on the continent, the role of literary translation in particular moments of social change and the increasing institutionalization of translation studies on the continent, the immense potential of African contexts, especially sub-Saharan and Afrodiasporic contexts, for translation studies remains to be more fully explored and better represented…

    Why do literary translation studies in African contexts matter? · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the understanding of the retranslation history of Robinson Crusoe in Romania. The research aims to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of the retranslation history of the text.

    Robinson Crusoe retold and retranslated into Romanian (1835–2023): From mimesis to telesis · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) These issues were primarily attributed to gaps in specialized training, limited interdisciplinary input, and the lack of standardized glossaries (“Translating English‑Language Cosmetic Catalogues into Persian: A Thematic and…”, 2026); (2) Despite advancements in artificial intelligence, machine translation's impact on tourism remains underexplored (“Machine Translation and Communication Accommodation in Hotel–Guest Interactions”, 2026); (3) The extent to which the typological characteristics of source languages shape linguistic simplification remains underexplored (“Converge or diverge? An entropy-based analysis of source language effects on…”, 2026); (4) The ways in which the image of the artificial intelligence translator represents translational predicaments and technological limitations remain underexplored (“The Translator Image in Film: A Case Study of C-3PO”, 2026); (5) The lack of examination of the results of ecological translation from the perspective of ecological criticism (“Study on Subtitle Translation of China in Classics from the Perspective of…”, 2026). 376 gap statements have been mined from Translation Studies and Practices papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,791 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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