Month: April 2018

A Host of Tongues…: Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Translation in the Early Modern Period

Events, Translation

An international conference FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, 13th to 15th December 2018 Call for Papers In the 15th and 16th centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would

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Announcing the Genealogies of Knowledge Corpus Browser Interface

Other News, Translation

Genealogies of Knowledge is a multidisciplinary research project, based at the University of Manchester, which aims to explore the evolution and contestation of key political and scientific concepts as they have travelled across centuries, languages and cultures. The research team is pleased to announce the release of the GoK corpus browser interface for researchers wishing to work with the range

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ARTIS@NOTTINGHAM2018: Verbal and Visual Paratexts in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Events, Translation

An ARTIS Event University of Nottingham, UK 12 September 2018 Broadly understood as the thresholds through which readers and viewers access texts, paratexts have been shown to play a crucial role in the reception and interpretation of texts. While Gérard Genette’s original theorisation of paratexts took place in the context of literary print culture, in recent years the concept has

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Sugar-coating Female Genital Mutilation in United Nations documents in English and Arabic

Publications, Translation

  A Diachronic Study of Lexical Variation By Yasmin Raafat This Dissertation is registered and submitted to the Faculty of Humanities (Department of Translation and Interpreting), University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Interpreting and translation. Supervisor: Professor Judith Inggs Johannesburg, 2017   Abstract (extract from introduction)   My struggle against FGM started around the

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