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A corpus-based study of competing stances on bias, dogma and expertise in the blogosphere Luis Pérez-González  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 92 (2020) Abstract Climate change science has become an increasingly polarized site of controversy, where discussions on epistemological rigour are difficult to separate from debates on the impact that economic and political interests have on the production of

By Yasmine Zohdi – August 22, 2020 Mada Masr / مدى مصر Instead of offering our usual weekly guide and recommendations, we thought we’d make this week’s issue of Detox a platform for a translator to showcase her efforts with a text she’d always wanted to work on. This is our culture editor Yasmine Zohdi’s account of her attempt at

  The first part of this interview with Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Wen-chin Ouyang appeared in a British Academy email newsletter titled “What is comparative literature?” and reappears here with permission:   The British Academy: What book do you always return to?   Wen-chin Ouyang: I have been thinking of bringing Arabic adab (أدب) and Chinese wen (文) together in a comparative project and

Language’s term for black people is outdated, say young language learners Lenard Monkman · CBC News · Posted: Jun 05, 2020 The phrase Black Lives Matter has been translated into many Indigenous languages to show support for the movement over the last week, but the Ojibway language’s term for black people is spurring calls for change. “The people’s attitudes in trying to

When The Da Vinci Code author’s next novel needed simultaneous translations in 2013, what happened next was extraordinary enough to inspire a film of its own   Julia Webster Ayuso The Guardian, Thursday 30 April 2020     In March 2013, Carole Delporte, a 37 year-old French translator, flew to Milan on a job for which she had been carefully

Mona Baker (2018) ‘Audiovisual Translation and Activism’, in Luis Pérez-González (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, London & New York: Routledge, 453-467. Introduction Activism and activist are emotive and ill-defined terms. They are claimed by any party that wishes to project itself as a courageous, independent voice that speaks out against what it narrates as injustices, and in so doing