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Wednesday, 11 December 2019 10:22
Summer School on Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies, June 2020
Sofia Malamatidou
Summer School on Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies dates: 15-26 June 2020 Pre-registration will open when website is online, January 20, 2020 Two weeks in Italy to attend courses on the empirical research of cognitive aspects of translation and interpreting from different angles: (1) Cognitive Translation Studies (2) Cognitive Linguistics…
Monday, 02 December 2019 12:53
U-M scholars to explore multilingual Midwest in Sawyer Seminar
Edward Clay
The Midwest, to many Americans, is either “fly-over country” where not much of interest happens, or “the heartland,” nostalgically framed as an ideal, homogenous America. A group of U-M scholars has secured a $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore the Midwest instead as a multicultural, multilingual…
Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:27
New publication: Contra Instrumentalism - A Translation Polemic, Lawrence Venuti
Edward Clay
Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This “instrumental” model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence can be seen today in elite and popular cultures, in…
Wednesday, 06 November 2019 10:41
Special Issue on Intersemiotic Translation and Multimodality
Karen Bennett
Special issue on Intersemiotic Translation and Multimodality.
Covers all branches of computational linguistics and language engineering, wherever they incorporate a multilingual aspect. It features papers that cover the theoretical, descriptive or computational aspects of any of the following topics: - compilation and use of bi- and multilingual corpora- computer-aided language instruction and learning- computational implications of non-Roman…
Tuesday, 15 October 2019 08:59
New publication: National law in supranational case-law, Katia Peruzzo
Edward Clay
The focus of the corpus-based and corpus-driven study presented in this book is on a supranational institution that has received relatively little attention in linguistic research: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). After briefly illustrating the functioning of the ECtHR and its historical development, the first part of the…
Tuesday, 01 October 2019 12:17
New publication: Translation in Cascading Crises, Edited by Federico M. Federici & Sharon O'Brien
Edward Clay
This volume addresses the imperative need for recognizing, exploring, and developing the role of multilingual communication in crisis settings. It is recognized that 'communication is aid' and that access to communication is an undeniable human right in crises. Even where effective and accurate information is available to be distributed, circulated,…
Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:13
New publication: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology, ed. Minako O'Hagan
Edward Clay
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the dynamically evolving relationship between translation and technology. Divided into five parts, with an editor's introduction, this volume presents the perspectives of users of translation technologies, and of researchers concerned with issues arising from the increasing…
Call for Applications for Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, 2020-21. Established in 2009 by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD programmes in Hong Kong's institutions. The Department of…
Tuesday, 17 September 2019 18:55
Routledge Research on Translation and Interpreting History
Edward Clay
Routledge Research on Translation and Interpreting History showcases cutting-edge research in English on the interdisciplinary dialogue between translation and interpreting studies and historical perspectives. Building off the emergence of translation and interpreting history as a subdiscipline of the field in its own right, the series features interdisciplinary work spanning a…
Friday, 23 August 2019 10:17
Rewriting Humour in Comic Books: Cultural Transfer and Translation of Aristophanic Adaptations
Sofia Malamatidou
by Dimitris Asimakoulas This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals and their English translations and offers a unique,…
Thursday, 08 August 2019 12:36
Reminder: ERC-funded RusTrans PhD studentship in the history of literary translation from Russian, starting January 2020
Sofia Malamatidou
Applications are invited for an ERC-funded PhD studentship in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter to work with the lead researchers on the “RusTrans: Dark Side of Translation” project. This five-year project investigates the ideology underlying the practice of Russian-to-English literary translation in the 20th and…
The European Commission's directorate for interpreting DGSCIC has launched a project on creating a Knowledge Centre on Interpretation. For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/education/knowledge-centre-interpretation/
by Kirsten Malmkjær Kirsten Malmkjær argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form. Examining notions of creativity and their relationship with translation and focusing on how the originality of translation is manifest in texts, the author explores a range of texts and their translations, in order to…
Thursday, 08 August 2019 10:40
Applications now open for the NCW Emerging Translator Mentorships 2019
Sofia Malamatidou
The National Centre for Writing is seeking applications from translators into English for the 2019 NCW Emerging Translator Mentorship programme. This year’s confirmed languages are: French (mentored by Sarah Ardizzone) Korean (mentored by Deborah Smith) Norwegian (mentored by Kari Dickson) Polish (mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Russian (mentored by Robert Chandler)…
Monday, 22 July 2019 11:24
New Publication: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Pragmatics
Sofia Malamatidou
Edited by Rebecca Tipton and Louisa Desilla The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Pragmatics provides an overview of key concepts and theory in pragmatics, charts developments in the disciplinary relationship between translation studies and pragmatics, and showcases applications of pragmatics-inspired research in a wide range of translation, spoken and…
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