CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED VOLUME Tentative Title: ASSESSΜΕΝΤ ISSUES IN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING Language Testing and Evaluation Series, Grotjahn, R. &. G. Sigott (general eds). Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Special Editors: Dina Tsagari & Roelof van Deemter The special editors of this forthcoming title are seeking submissions for a…

Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc 2011 "Teaching Translation and Interpreting Skills in the 21st Century" (November 11-12, 2011) is organised by the Department of English and American Studies, Translation and Interpreting Section, Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The deadline for paper/presentation abstracts has been extended to…

Edited by Ronit Ricci and Jan Van der Putten, Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 2011. The field of translation studies was largely formed on the basis of modern Western notions of monolingual nations with print-literate societies and monochrome cultures. A significant number of societies in Asia – and their translation traditions…

Authored by Pablo Romero-Fresco, Volume 13 of Translation Practices Series, Published 2011 by St. Jerome Publishing With accompanying DVD. 194 pages 1-905763-28-X £30.00

Complicating the History of Western Translation The Ancient Mediterranean in Perspective Edited by Siobhán McElduff and Enrica Sciarrino       ISBN 978-1-905763-30-6, £25 (inc. postage and packing) Published September 2011, 234 pages   https://www.stjerome.co.uk/books/b/151/ As long as there has been a need for language, there has been a need for translation; yet…

Dimitris Asimakoulas and Margaret Rogers (eds) (2011) Translation and Opposition. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781847694300. 321 pages £23.96 Book synopsis Contemporary models in Translation Studies have relatively recently problematized various myths relating to translation activity, such as the view of translation as an impersonal, mechanical act of linguistic transfer or…

The New York Times By MARGALIT FOX Published: September 3, 2011 The Rev. Eugene A. Nida, a linguist and Baptist minister who spurred a Babel of Bibles, recruiting and training native speakers to translate Scripture into a host of languages around the world, died on Aug. 25 at his home…

Moncton (New Brunswick, Canada) 1, 2, 3 November 2012 Translation in Contexts of Official Multilingualism Translation and interpretation activities in a context of official or institutional multilingualism (where are least two languages are official languages) are the reality of many of the world's countries, but rarely are translation studies scholars…