Arab News and Conflict

A multidisciplinary discourse study

Samia Bazzi

Lebanese University, Beirut

The Arab-Israeli struggle is not only a struggle over land, but a struggle over

language representations. Arab reporters as well as politicians believe that

their political discourses about the Middle East confl ict are objective, accurate,

and credible. Arab News and Conflict critically examines the role of language

in the representations of events and ideologies found in news media.

Drawing on socio-political-linguistic approaches combined with real-case studies,

the author off ers a unique discourse analysis model for analysing politically

sensitive language in the media.  The focus in this study is on the Arab media

discourse in times of confl ict with Israel and the US, spanning the years 2001

to 2009. Using rich examples from outspoken Arab media outlets, the study

explores ideological and language facts about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This book is compelling reading for students and researchers of media and

cultural studies, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, and translation. It is

of equal interest to political analysts, political speakers, journalists, and news

editors who need to understand more about the ideological function of the

language they use or the political-journalistic-linguistic nexus of power.

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Volume 31(3), 2013

The sociology of translation in a developmental context

Guest editors: Sergey Tyulenev and Marlie van Rooyen

One of the ways in which one can conceptualise the evolution of Translation Studies as a scholarly discipline over the past five decades is as a series of shifts from micro to macro approaches, from text to context, from language to society, and from colonially exclusive to post-colonially inclusive paradigms. Whichever way one looks at it, there seems to be a growing interdisciplinary interest between translation studies and sociology. This interest relates, among other things, to the role of the translator and translation in the development of a society and the interplay between the constraints that society places on the translator and translation praxis, on the one hand, and the activism and resistance of the translation agency, on the other. This interest has been reflected in Translation Studies readers, monographs, edited collections, special editions of TS journals, and a multitude of articles. The uniqueness of this special issue of SALALS (http://www.nisc.co.za/journals?id=9) is that it will consider the role of translation specifically in the developmental context.

“Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies: Research in Translation Studies”

25 January 2013 - Durham University, UK

The Centre for Intercultural Mediation of Durham University is pleased to announce the first Postgraduate Colloquium.

Keynote speaker: Ubaldo Stecconi, ‘What is a PhD in Translation Studies?’, European Commission, Belgium.

Venue: The Penthouse Suite of Collingwood College, Durham University, Durham, UK http://www.dur.ac.uk/event.durham/venues/colleges/collingwood.college/

Date:            25 January 2013

Times:          9:00-17:00

Website:        http://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/postgraduate/transstuds/pgcol/

We are pleased to remind you that on the 25th , 26th and 27th of October

2012 the Iberoamerican Terminology Network (RITerm) and the Interuniversity

Institute of Applied Modern Languages (IULMA) will host the 13th

Ibero-American Symposium of Terminology at the University of Alicante. The

central theme of the Congress will be Terminology, Translation and ICT:

Social Interaction and Collaborative Work for the Construction and

Dissemination of Knowledge. The Symposium has been structured into eight

thematic panels to represent the different areas of knowledge.

STRUCTURE OF THE SYMPOSIUM

The Symposium will be made up of plenary sessions, two thematic round

tables, two workshops (in the Symposium) and eight thematic areas for

presentations, which are:

- Terminology, translation and new technologies (databases, translation

memories, extractors of terminology, etc.)

- Terminology, translation and web 2.0 platforms

- Social networks (networking), Terminology and specialized translation

- Processing of terminology resources (for the translator)

- Training in terminology and terminology applied to translation

- Terminology, translation and corpus linguistics (methods and tools for

the analysis of discourse, applications of corpus for terminology,

translation, etc.)

- Terminology and lexical combinatory specialized terminology,

- Translation and neonymy

We are pleased to remind you that on the 25th , 26th and 27th of October

2012 the Iberoamerican Terminology Network (RITerm) and the Interuniversity

Institute of Applied Modern Languages (IULMA) will host the 13th

Ibero-American Symposium of Terminology at the University of Alicante. The

central theme of the Congress will be Terminology, Translation and ICT:

Social Interaction and Collaborative Work for the Construction and

Dissemination of Knowledge. The Symposium has been structured into eight

thematic panels to represent the different areas of knowledge.

STRUCTURE OF THE SYMPOSIUM

The Symposium will be made up of plenary sessions, two thematic round

tables, two workshops (in the Symposium) and eight thematic areas for

presentations, which are:

- Terminology, translation and new technologies (databases, translation

memories, extractors of terminology, etc.)

- Terminology, translation and web 2.0 platforms

- Social networks (networking), Terminology and specialized translation

- Processing of terminology resources (for the translator)

- Training in terminology and terminology applied to translation

- Terminology, translation and corpus linguistics (methods and tools for

the analysis of discourse, applications of corpus for terminology,

translation, etc.)

- Terminology and lexical combinatory specialized terminology,

- Translation and neonymy

We are pleased to announce the launch of the first issue of Sheikhbahaee EFL Journal.

Assistant editor: Afzali,K

–inTRAlinea – SPECIAL ISSUE, 2013

Translation and Lexicography

Edited by María del Mar Sánchez Ramos*, María Porciel Crosa^ and Iris Serrat Roozen°

*University of Alcalá, Spain

^University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

°University of Valencia, Spain

Dictionaries –general and specialized, printed and online– are one of the most important tools for the translator. Language professionals need to know how to consult and use dictionaries in order to complete a translation task effectively, while students of translation need to learn skills to do so. The relationship between dictionaries and Translation Studies seems also worth investigating. Nevertheless, as some scholars have pointed out (Fenner, 1989; Roberts, 1997; Corpas Pastor, 2001) dictionaries—and lexicography more in general— have not be given the attention they deserve in Translation Studies.

Submissions are invited for a special issue of inTRAlinea online journal of translation studies on Translation and Lexicography, to be published in 2013.

Beyond Mediation? Exploring Translation and Interpretation

in the Current Globalized Landscape

The graduate students of the School of Translation at Glendon College, York University, are pleased to announce the fourth annual graduate student conference in Translation Studies, to be held at Glendon College, Toronto in March 2013.

The realities of the 21^st century have brought into sharp focus the role of translation and interpretation in an increasingly globalized world; they are omnipresent, albeit often invisible, instruments in the construction of knowledge, and play an indispensable role in cultural, economic, geo-political, linguistic and technological exchanges.

Increased movement within and across cultural and linguistic boundaries, as well as new media of communication have brought about a greater awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity, an awareness that has not necessarily led to a significant difference in attitudes toward such diversity.