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Type of Event: Conference
Date: 2007-05-10
Venue: Forli (Italy)
Event theme(s): The conference is directed at academics from various disciplines as well as translators and students who are interested in the translation of dialects in multimedia contexts.

Description: The conference is directed at academics from various disciplines as well as translators and students who are interested in the translation of dialects in multimedia contexts. The conference will concentrate on a complex, interdisciplinary subject area involving linguistics, communication studies, film studies and translation studies as well as other areas of cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines. The main topics to be covered at the conference include dubbing, subtitling films in dialect and linguistic varieties; theatre translation; cultural transfer processes in the characteristics of dialects; archaisms, regionalisms, varieties in the continuum between dialect and standard language; diglossia (national language and regional or local language; "official" and "non official" language); the use of new technologies in the translation of dialect.

Keynote Speakers: Michael Cronin (Dublin City University)
Ernest W.B. Hess-Luttich (Universitat Bern)
David Ar Rouz (Universite Rennes 2)
Michele Cortelazzo (Universit di Padova)
Frederic Chaume Varela (Universitat Jaume I)

Deadline for submission of proposals: 2007-03-21
Registration deadline: 2007-04-15
Contact details: (please label message subject "MMDT2007")
mgiorgiomarrano@sslmit.unibo.it
Event website: http://multimedialectranslation.sitlec.unibo.it/index.html