Translation, Conflict and Memory II Symposium on Literary Translation and Contemporary Iberia Friday 3rd – Saturday 4th November 2017 Dublin City University, Ireland CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Friday 3rd November 2017 St. Patrick’s Campus, Drumcondra 1.30–2.00 […]
» Read moreEvent Information Dates of Event 18th November 2017 – 19th November 2017 Last Booking Date for this Event 3rd November 2017 Description Innovative and experimental practices push the boundaries of a discipline, taking it in different directions, challenging existing thought and offering exciting new horizons. Innovation may come from outside – a challenge from other disciplines or cultures – or from within: a reaction against traditional approaches. At […]
» Read morePalgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting Free Preview © 2017 Self-Translation and Power Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts Editors: Castro, Olga, Mainer, Sergi, Page, Svetlana (Eds.) Analyses the role of self-translation by placing an emphasis on powerExamines self-translation within the multilingual European context Focuses on interactions between minority and majority European languages This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications […]
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Adaptation has long had a negative reception within the discipline of Translation Studies. It is quite normal to be confronted with negative perceptions of adaptation – long since regarded as ”the extreme limit of translation” (Vinay and Darbelnet 1958, Vázquez-Ayora 1977, among others), a distinctive translation operation, and even an ”act of betrayal” or ”a lack of respect” (Bensoussan 1988) – whenever matters […]
» Read moreI MEDIA ACCESSIBILITY PLATFORM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (5-6th October 2017, Afundación, Vigo) Book of abstracts (downloadable version of the book of abstracts). MAPIC 2017 programme (downloadable version of the MAPIC programme). DAY 1: THURSDAY – 5TH OCTOBER 2017 9:00 – 9:25 Welcome address by Salustiano Mato de la Iglesia (Rector, Universidade de Vigo), representatives from Vigo’s City Hall and the Galician Government. 9:25 – […]
» Read moreEvent Information Dates of Event 18th November 2017 – 19th November 2017 Last Booking Date for this Event 3rd November 2017 Description Innovative and experimental practices push the boundaries of a discipline, taking it in different directions, challenging existing thought and offering exciting new horizons. Innovation may come from outside – a challenge from other disciplines or cultures – or from within: a reaction against traditional approaches. At […]
» Read morePhraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective Edited by Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski, Gianluca Pontrandolfo © 2018 – Routledge 280 pages | 43 B/W Illus. Description This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by […]
» Read moreAudiovisual Translation – Research and Use Series: Łódź Studies in Language Mikolaj Deckert This book explores two strands of Audiovisual Translation referred to as «research» and «use». As their points of convergence as well as divergence are brought to light, the contributors show that the two tend to overlap and cross-pollinate. The volume’s inquiries of linguistic, cultural, sociological, computational, educational […]
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Friday 13 October 2017 08.00-08.40 Registration 08.40-09.15 Welcome Address and Launch of Centre 09.15-10.15 Plenary I Kaisa Koskinen, University of Tampere, Finland A Conversation across Disciplines and Communities: Public Sociology, Public Translation Studies and Revitalizing an Endangered Language via Translation Chair: Yifan Zhu, Jiao Tong Baker Centre 10.15-10.45 Tea/Coffee 10.45-11.45 Panel I Interdisciplinarity in Practice Chair: Li Dang, […]
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