The Empirical Triumph of Theory

Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindication of a thesis that linguists, critics, and anthropologists spent much of the twentieth century advancing — the thesis that language is not an

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Prince Harry: early leaks came from a Spanish translation, causing confusion about what was really said

  By Caroline Summers, University of Leeds The Conversation, 26 January 2023   Eight days before Prince Harry’s memoir Spare hit shelves elsewhere, copies went on sale prematurely in Spain. Over the next few days the UK media, scrambled to acquire Spanish copies of the book, having been unable to get English versions for themselves. Their reporting on the story was

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There’s no official French version of the 1867 Constitution Act. So is taking the oath to the King in French valid?

Published: December 1, 2022 9.39pm GMT   Since the election of the first Parti Québécois legislators in 1970, controversy over Québec MNAs swearing an oath to the sovereign before taking their seats in the National Assembly has stirred emotion and sparked heated debate. PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon recently fuelled the controversy by stating loudly and clearly that he will

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Translating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation

Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.   Personal Essays, Pen Transmission, 7 October 2020   Last year, I participated in a two-day conference, organised by ‘postcolonial intellectuals’, called ‘Intellectuals without Borders’. I presented on the ‘Whiteness of Postcolonial and Multicultural Literary Criticism’, intending to disrupt the very idea of the ‘borderless intellectual’. I sensed

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Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Yasmin El-Rifae

June 23, 2022 By Helen Mackreath, Los Angeles Review of Books   IN THE WAKE of the intensifying resistance to the occupation of Palestine, the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States (and beyond), and such movements as #StandWithStandingRock, appeals for solidarity with the plight of migrants, occupied populations, racialized minorities, and Indigenous peoples have become culturally pervasive. This

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

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

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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