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Researching Collaborative Translation in the Context of Contemporary Protest

June 2, 2016 stone0718 Baker Talks and Interviews, Translation, Videos

Lecture by Mona Baker Hong Kong Baptist University, 7-8 April 2016 The Individual and/vs the Collective: Researching Collaborative Translation in the Context of Contemporary Protest While interest in collaborative forms of translation has grown noticeably in recent years, little has been done to examine the tension between the individual and the collective in different types of collaborative environment. Specifically, no

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Lecturer in Interpreting with Spanish (and/or French)

June 1, 2016 Mona Baker Job Announcements, Translation

Lecturer in Interpreting with Spanish (and/or French) University of Leicester – Modern Languages Location: Leicester Salary: £37,768 to £46,414 per annum Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Contract / Temporary Placed on: 18th May 2016 Closes: 16th June 2016 Job Ref: SAH01112-1 Open ended contract, starting in September 2016 The University of Leicester is a world-leading institution, marked by a belief

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Critical Link 8 in Edinburgh

June 1, 2016 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Critical Link 8 will be hosted by The Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS), Heriot-Watt University, at the Edinburgh Conference Centre. From around the world, the conference will bring together all community/public service interpreting and translation stakeholders: community and public sector representatives, employers, developers of tools and technologies, policy makers, practitioners, professional bodies, researchers, service users, trainers

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The AALITRA Review no. 11

May 25, 2016 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

We are pleased to announce that issue no. 11 of The AALITRA Review: A Journal of Literary Translation just been published. It contains eleven peer-reviewed contributions – articles, reviews, translations – by translators and academics working with a range of languages and literatures. The table of contents appears below. Articles can be accessed at https://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/AALITRA/index The AALITRA Review: A Journal

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Recruitment of Postdoctoral Fellow

May 19, 2016 Mona Baker Job Announcements, Translation

Closing deadline extended to 10 June 2016 The Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is now hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow, initially tenurable for 12 months, with the possibility of further extension for an additional 12 months. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a

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What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?

May 18, 2016 Mona Baker Other News, Translation

The London School of Economics and Political Science Impact Blog Drawing on citation data that spans disciplines and time periods, Elliott Green has identified the most cited publications in the social sciences. Here he shares his findings on the 25 most cited books as well as the top ten journal articles. The sheer number of citations for these top cited publications is

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CTIS Occasional Papers, Volume 7, 2016

May 17, 2016 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

Edited by Pauline Henry-Tierney and Dinithi Karunanayake Published by the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester ISBN: 978-0-9540829-6-3 ISSN: 1474-578X Contents Introduction Pauline Henry-Tierney and Dinithi Karunanayake pp. 1-3 When the Role of the Court Interpreter Intersects and Interacts with New Technologies Jérôme Devaux pp. 4-21 Towards the Construction of Organisational Professionalism in Public

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University of Manchester

Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 1: Lydia Davis and Translationese

May 15, 2016 Mona Baker Interviews, Translation

Liesl Schillinger interviews Lydia Davis Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 May 2016 Every act of reading is an act of translation. As you, the reader, absorb a text, you receive it through your own filter of the world and of words. When you read a book in English that was first written in another language, you rely on the filter of

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The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory

May 15, 2016 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

In memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013 Edited by Douglas Robinson © 2016 – Routledge 234 pages, Hardback: 9781138901759 Pub: 2016-05-12 This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheung’s “pushing-hands” method of translation studies. Pushing-hands was an idea Martha began exploring in the last four years of her life, and only had time to publish at article length in

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Martha Cheung

Texts and Contexts: The Phenomenon of Boundaries

May 7, 2016 Mona Baker Events, Translation

CALL FOR PAPERS Texts and Contexts: The Phenomenon of Boundaries April 27-28, 2017 Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities Muitinės Str. 8, Kaunas, Latvia The importance of boundaries in texts and contexts is now generally recognized, and the Conference offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning fuzziness of boundaries in different types of human communication, and

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