Exploiting Emerging Technologies to Prepare Interpreters and their Clients for Professional Practice Research Seminar London, 23 November 2012 http://www.virtual-interpreting.net/Seminar.html This seminar, organised by the EU project IVY – ‘Interpreting in Virtual Reality’ (co-ordinated by the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey, 2011-12), seeks to discover the capabilities of emerging technologies and the role they can play in preparing interpreters and their clients for professional practice. It will disseminate the findings of the IVY project, which has used the innovative features of an avatar-based 3D virtual environment, Second Life, to simulate professional practice in business and public service interpreting, along…

Centrum voor Vaktaal en Communicatie and Termisti are happy to announce their 5th joint terminology seminar in Brussels (TSIB) on 20 April 2012. Venue: Vrije Universiteit Brussel   Programme and registration: http://taalkunde.ehb.be/cvc/events/seminar2012   This year's theme will be: Culture-bound terminology and the process of harmonization: Research questions and methodologies. Introduction: Recent approaches in terminology theory question the functionality and usefulness of standardization. The effort to eliminate polysemy and synonymy in terminology in order to achieve the unrealistic ideal of univocity and unambiguous communication has been shown to interfere with natural language processes. Still, both the standardization of terminology by an authoritative…