Category: Translation

Translating COVID-19 and Japan: A Historical Reflection on the Social Standing of Scientists

Articles, Translation

Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) May 21, 2020 Notes from the Field As a crisis that inevitably mixes politics with science, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of scientists. Political leaders the world over are keen to stress that their responses to the pandemic are “driven by science.” It was warnings from the government’s panel of scientific experts, argued

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Using Corpora to Trace the Cross-Cultural Mediation of Concepts through Time

Baker Talks and Interviews, Translation

  An interview with the coordinators of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network     Mona Baker, Shanghai International Studies University, China & University of Manchester, UK Jan Buts, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Henry Jones, Aston University, UK Interview by Zhao Wenjing, Zhengzhou Shengda University and Henan Normal University, and Yang Guosheng, Henan Polytechnic   (1) Can you say something

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The Time of Now: An Interview with the Editors of the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism

Articles, Citizen Media, Publications, Translation

Barricade, a Journal of Antifascism and Translation SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 BY ANNEKE RAUTENBACH In a chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism, published over the summer, Turkish journalist and translator Ayşe Düzkan offers an anecdote: At a conference in Istanbul in 2014, she was tasked with providing a consecutive Turkish interpretation for one of the speakers, a British Marxian anthropologist. His

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The Ethics of Volunteerism in Translation: Translators Without Borders and the Platform Economy

Articles, Translation, Uncategorized

Covering Note   The Ethics of Volunteerism Attila Piróth and Mona Baker October 2019   Some background to our decision to publish this article independently is in order. First, neither of us is under pressure to publish at all. Attila is a professional translator whose career would hardly benefit from a scholarly publication, and may even be negatively impacted by

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Phobia: A Corpus Study of Political Diagnostics: OPEN ACCESS

Articles, Translation

  Jan Buts Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 101 (2020) Cite this article   Abstract   This article is a rhetorical corpus study of the use of -phobia in online alternative media. The term phobia is used in the psychiatric domain to refer to a range of anxiety disorders, but is now also commonly used to identify social tensions.

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‘Is Climate Science Taking Over the Science?’: OPEN ACCESS

Articles, Translation

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

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Free Webinar: Conceptual Analysis and Thematic Corpora

Events, Translation

Theory, Methodology and Indicative Case Studies A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network, in collaboration with Aston University, UK Date: Thursday 12th November Time: 09.45-13.00 (GMT) Venue: Blackboard Collaborate Ultra   Despite longstanding interest in the study of concepts across many disciplines and the phenomenal growth in corpus-based studies since the late 1980s, very little has been

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University Assistant with Doctorate, University of Graz

Job Announcements, Translation

  The Institute of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities is looking for a   University Assistant with Doctorate (40 hours a week; fixed-term employment for the period of 6 years; position to be filled as of October 12th 2020)   Your duties Independent research and scientific collaboration in the research area “Translation and cooperation in times of technocapitalism”

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