Author: Mona Baker

University Assistant (prae doc) at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna

Job Announcements

The University of Vienna (20 faculties and centres, 179 fields of study, approx. 10.000 members of staff, about 90.000 students) seeks to fill the position from 01.04.2022 of a University Assistant (prae doc) Centre for Translation Studies Reference number: 12722 The Centre for Translation Studies is seeking a University assistant (prae doc) in the field of Transcultural Communication (Prof. Dr.

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CULTUS 15: Narrativity in Translation

Call for Papers, Translation

CALL for PAPERS      CULTUS 15: Narrativity in Translation   Abstracts should be sent to: submission@cultusjournal.com  by February 28th 2022   Notification of Acceptance: March 6th  2022 Deadline for full papers: June 1st 2022 Publication: December 2022   Since Baker’s pioneering publication, Translation and Conflict: Narrative Account (2006), there has been a growing interest in the use of social narrative

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Associate /Assistant Professor of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Job Announcements, Translation

Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Post: Associate Professor / Assistant Professor Closing date: January 31, 2022   Applicants should (i) possess a relevant PhD degree in translation or other related fields; (ii) specialize in one or more of the following areas: comparative linguistics, interpreting studies, digital humanities (including corpus-based studies), translation theory and practical translation (including translation project supervision);  and preferably (iii)

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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors

Articles, Translation

Ali Khan Mahmudabad’s translation from the Urdu of Khan Mahboob Tarzi’s ‘The Break of Dawn’ is as much the translator’s mission as the writer’s story. Prerna Vij Sep 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm The Break of Dawn, by Khan Mahboob Tarzi, which has been translated from the Urdu by Ali Khan Mahmudabad, welcomes readers with a preface that takes them

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

Articles, Translation, Videos

By Valeria Luiselli Publisher: Coffee House Press Year: 2017 ISBN: 9781566894968 American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation ( The New York Times Book Review ). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria

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Fragmented Narrative: Telling and Interpreting Stories in the Twitter Age

Books and Journals, Citizen Media, Translation

Neil Sadler Routledge, 2022 With the rise and rise of social media, today’s communication practices are significantly different from those of even the recent past. A key change has been a shift to very small units, exemplified by Twitter and its strict 240-character limit on individual posts. Consequently, highly fragmented communication has become the norm in many contexts. Fragmented Narrative sets out

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“What is in a preposition?”: Reading Turkish Literature as World Literature

Articles, Translation

Review of Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol, eds. Turkish Literature as World Literature. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Mehtap Ozdemir, 22 July 2021, published in The Medium Conventionally traced back to Goethe’s conceptualization of the term Weltliteratur in the early decades of the nineteenth century, world literature has gained traction both as a critical construct and an academic field in the past

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From text to data: Mediality in corpus-based translation studies

Articles, Translation

Jan Buts & Henry Jones MonTI: Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación URI: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/115357 Abstract This paper seeks to promote deeper reflection within the field of corpus-based translation studies (CTS) regarding the digital tools by means of which research in this discipline proceeds. It explicates a range of possibilities and constraints brought to the analysis of translated texts by the keyword

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HTN Conference 2022

Call for Papers, Other News, Translation

  The inaugural conference of the   History and Translation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 25-28 May 2022 University of Tallinn   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Hilary Footitt (University of Reading) Hephzibah Israel (University of Edinburgh) Ronnie Hsia (Pennsylvania State University)                                IMPORTANT DATES Preliminary panel proposal: 31 August 2021 Acceptance

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Epistemologies of Evidence-based Medicine

Articles, Translation

Buts, Jan, Mona Baker, Saturnino Luz and Eivind Engebretsen (2021) ‘Epistemologies of Evidence-based Medicine: A plea for corpus-based conceptual research in the medical humanities’, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1007/s11019-021-10027-2 OPEN ACCESS https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.uio.no/article/10.1007/s11019-021-10027-2 Abstract Evidence-based medicine has been the subject of much controversy within and outside the field of medicine, with its detractors characterizing it as reductionist and authoritarian, and

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