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Call for contributions Proposals are invited for contributions to the new book series on Languages at War, which is published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by Hilary Footitt (University of Reading, UK) and Michael Kelly (University of Southampton, UK). The series is intended to bring together books which deal with the role of languages in situations of conflict, including war, civil war, occupation, peace-keeping, peace-enforcement and humanitarian action in crisis zones. The editors are aware that in recent years, scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds have begun working on issues of languages and conflict. They may draw on…
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Edited and with an Introduction by James St. André and Peng Hsiao-yen. This volume brings together some of the latest research by scholars from the UK, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to examine a variety of issues relating to the history of translation between China and Europe, aimed at increasing dialogue between Chinese studies and translation studies. Covering the nineteenth century to the present, the essays tackle a number of important issues, including the role of relay translation, hybridity and transculturation, methods for the incorporation of foreign words and concepts, the problems entailed by the importation of foreign paradigms and epistemes,…
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CALL FOR PAPERSMonTI 5 (2013)The History of Translation within Translation Studies: Problems in Research and Didactics **************** Editors:Miguel Ángel Vega – Universidad de Alicante (Spain)Martha Pulido – Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia)Charo Valdivia-Universidad Ricardo Palma (Lima, Peru) Translation Studies has come of age at our Universities. However, since Holmes proposed the Translation Studies Map, the history of the discipline hasn’t been able to find enough institutional space to be recognized within the Training Programmes Curricula. In its theoretical track, Translation Studies takes as a starting point a strict consideration of the system and expresses a clearly marked a-historical character. Research…
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