Call for Papers:

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Department of French Translation and Interpreting is organizing an international translation studies conference in order to provide a framework for discussing new destinations in translation studies.  

Translation, an impetus for human evolution, is one of the most important subject matters in academic research in line with innovations of our era. Going beyond imposing limits, translation studies is enriched by new perspectives and travels to new destinations. Considering translation as a multifaceted concept which involves numerous parameters, this conference proposes the opportunity to explore theoretical and practical issues in translation with innovative points of view, to analyze the nature of present-day problematics and develop possible solutions.

Papers will be 20 minutes with a further 10 minutes of discussion and are to be presented in French, English and Turkish. Please send a 250-400 word abstract by 5 November 2012 toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., including key words, a brief biographical note and e-mail address. 

Part-time Lecturer(s) in English > Chinese Translation

Imperial College London -Translation Unit

MSc in Scientific, Technical and Medical Translation with Translation Technology (MScTrans)

We are currently looking to recruit one or more lecturers for the English > Chinese component of this exciting Masters programme, to start in October 2012. MScTrans aims to provide training which prepares students for work as translation professionals. The programme provides practical translation classes in a wide range of language combinations, and the teaching is split into blocks:

Block One: Scientific Translation (October - November)

Block Two: Medical Translation (November - January)

Block Three: Technical Translation (January - March)

Closing date: 13 September 2012

Iberian Studies on Translation and Interpreting

Series: New Trends in Translation Studies - Volume 11

Edited by Jorge Díaz Cintas

Year of Publication: 2012

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. XII, 389 pp.

ISBN 978-3-0343-0815-1 pb.

ISBN 978-3-0353-0347-6 (eBook)

This volume gathers contributions representing the main trends in translation and interpreting studies by authors in the Iberian peninsula, with a focus on the Iberian languages (Basque, Catalan, Portuguese/Galician and Spanish). The essays cover different methodologies and objects of analysis, including traditional textual and historical approaches as well as contemporary methods, such as cultural, sociological, cognitive and gender-oriented perspectives. This seemingly eclectic approach pivots around seven focal points that aim to reflect the most frequent research topics in the Iberian peninsula: (i) theoretical and methodological approaches; (ii) translation and interpreting training; (iii) historical perspectives; (iv) terminology; (v) rapidly evolving fields in the translation and interpreting industry, such as localization and public service interpreting; (vi) translation of literature; and (vii) translation studies journals.

The second volume of T&I Review, which is published by the Ewha Research Institute for Translation Studies (ERITS) of Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea has been published recently.

12th Portsmouth Translation Conference

Keynote speakers: Prof.  Dorothy Kelly (University of Granada)

Arab News and Conflict

A multidisciplinary discourse study

Samia Bazzi

Lebanese University, Beirut

The Arab-Israeli struggle is not only a struggle over land, but a struggle over

language representations. Arab reporters as well as politicians believe that

their political discourses about the Middle East confl ict are objective, accurate,

and credible. Arab News and Conflict critically examines the role of language

in the representations of events and ideologies found in news media.

Drawing on socio-political-linguistic approaches combined with real-case studies,

the author off ers a unique discourse analysis model for analysing politically

sensitive language in the media.  The focus in this study is on the Arab media

discourse in times of confl ict with Israel and the US, spanning the years 2001

to 2009. Using rich examples from outspoken Arab media outlets, the study

explores ideological and language facts about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This book is compelling reading for students and researchers of media and

cultural studies, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, and translation. It is

of equal interest to political analysts, political speakers, journalists, and news

editors who need to understand more about the ideological function of the

language they use or the political-journalistic-linguistic nexus of power.

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Volume 31(3), 2013

The sociology of translation in a developmental context

Guest editors: Sergey Tyulenev and Marlie van Rooyen

One of the ways in which one can conceptualise the evolution of Translation Studies as a scholarly discipline over the past five decades is as a series of shifts from micro to macro approaches, from text to context, from language to society, and from colonially exclusive to post-colonially inclusive paradigms. Whichever way one looks at it, there seems to be a growing interdisciplinary interest between translation studies and sociology. This interest relates, among other things, to the role of the translator and translation in the development of a society and the interplay between the constraints that society places on the translator and translation praxis, on the one hand, and the activism and resistance of the translation agency, on the other. This interest has been reflected in Translation Studies readers, monographs, edited collections, special editions of TS journals, and a multitude of articles. The uniqueness of this special issue of SALALS (http://www.nisc.co.za/journals?id=9) is that it will consider the role of translation specifically in the developmental context.