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‘The deadliest error’: translation, international relations and the news media

June 23, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

DOI: 10.1080/13556509.2016.1149754 Federico Zanettin The Translator, Published online: 08 May 2016 This article discusses the role of translation in the making of international politics. While being largely invisible, translation and interpreting activities are interwoven with political communication, both in contexts of direct negotiations among the parties involved and when the media act as a mediating agent by recontextualising political statements and

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A Delicate Matter in the Examination Room

June 11, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Lives As told to SEHBA SARWAR JUNE 10, 2016 Unlike most refugees, I wasn’t scared when I came to this country from Ethiopia many years ago. I was confused. But early on, I understood that the first thing you need to do is survive. After a couple of months in Buffalo, I moved to Houston. For three years, I worked as a

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medical interpreting

Italians, Helped by an App, Translate the Talmud

April 17, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, The New York Times, APRIL 5, 2016 ROME — Spanning six centuries of religious and legal teachings touching on astronomy, medicine, ethics, philosophy and more, the Babylonian Talmud is so complex, it has rarely been translated. But on Tuesday, after five years of labor by dozens of scholars, linguists, philologists and editors — as well as a crew of computer

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Religious translation

Arab books and human development

April 9, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Eugene Rogan Eurozine Published 2004−04−27; Original in English; Contribution by Index on Censorship The challenges faced by Arabic book publishing are considerable but is it really responsible for all the problems of the Arab world? The 2002 Arab Human Development Report was a landmark document. Written by Arab social scientists, it was the first auto-critique to address the challenges faced by the Arab world

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Arab Human Development Report, Eugene Rogan

The prefigurative politics of translation in place-based movements of protest

March 28, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Articles, Citizen Journalism, Egypt, Mona Baker, Protest Movements, Translating Dissent, Translation

Subtitling in the Egyptian Revolution DOI: 10.1080/13556509.2016.1148438 (link to prepublication version at end of post) Mona Baker, The Translator, Volume 22, Number 1, 2016, pages 1-21 Abstract The idea of prefiguration is widely assumed to derive from anarchist discourse; it involves experimenting with currently available means in such a way that they come to mirror or actualise the political ideals that

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Beyond the Spectacle: Translation and Solidarity in Contemporary Protest Movements

March 7, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Mona Baker, Protest Movements, Translating Dissent, Translation

Mona Baker This chapter maps out the space of translation within the political economy of contemporary protest movements, using the Egyptian Revolution as a case in point and extending the definition of translation to cover a range of modalities and types of interaction. It identifies themes and questions that arise out of the concrete experiences of activists mobilizing and reflecting

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activism, Mona Baker, Solidarity

Reading Letters from the Past

March 1, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Translating for Historical Research in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies by Katharine Halls1 Sephardic Horizons, Volume 6, Number 1, 2016 One of the most exciting developments to come out of the surge of academic interest in Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewry is the recent appearance of two sourcebooks which present documentary material relating to the modern history of these communities in translation. The

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Katharine Halls

Being foreign is different, by Jonathan Ree

February 3, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Times Literary Supplement 06/09/1996 Can we find equivalents for philosophical terms? If philosophy really is (as its enemies keep saying) just another branch of European literature, still it is a pretty remarkable one. It is cosmopolitan like no other. Even the most rudimentary philosophical library will contain works written in Greek, Latin, French, English and German; and even the most

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Jonathan Ree, philosophy

Rethinking the Art of Subtitles

January 31, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

By Grant Rosenberg/Paris, Time, May 15, 2007 Early on in the 2004 supernatural Russian thriller Night Watch, the protagonist, trying to prevent a witch from casting a spell on his unborn child, yells at the top of his lungs in protest. For English-speaking audiences, the subtitles do more than just translate the literal meaning: the words “no” and “stop” with three exclamation

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audiovisual translation, subtitling

Bringing U.S. Presidential Debates to a Chinese Audience

January 5, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Translation

Sinosphere By OWEN GUO, JAN. 3, 2016, The New York Times BEIJING — From his graduate student dormitory in the southern city of Guangzhou, Yin Hao works late into the night with an online network of about half a dozen other volunteer translators. Their task: to post the American presidential debates, with Chinese subtitles. “Watching the U.S. presidential debates is like watching a

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audiovisual translation, Chinese, subtitling, volunteer subtitling

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