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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the dynamically evolving relationship between translation and technology. Divided into five parts, with an editor's introduction, this volume presents the perspectives of users of translation technologies, and of researchers concerned with issues arising from the increasing interdependency between translation and technology. The chapters in this Handbook tackle the advent of technologization at both a technical and a philosophical level, based on industry practice and academic research. Containing over 30 authoritative, cutting-edge chapters, this is an essential reference and resource for those studying and researching translation and technology. The volume will also be valuable for translators, computational linguists and developers of translation tools. For more information, click here

Call for Applications for Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, 2020-21. Established in 2009 by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD programmes in Hong Kong's institutions. The Department of Linguistics and Translation (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lt), City University of Hong Kong is now inviting applications for the Scheme. The Dept has an exemplary record of teaching excellence and is internationally recognized for its world-class research. The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) ranking for Linguistics of CityU rose from 47th in 2011 to 32nd in 2019. CityU becomes the top-ranked university in Hong Kong in Linguistics. More than 20 faculty members conduct empirically based and theoretically informed research in the areas of theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, intelligent linguistics applications, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, empirical linguistics, translation, interpretation, and translation studies. Application deadline: 2 December 2019 For more details, see here

Routledge Research on Translation and Interpreting History showcases cutting-edge research in English on the interdisciplinary dialogue between translation and interpreting studies and historical perspectives. Building off the emergence of translation and interpreting history as a subdiscipline of the field in its own right, the series features interdisciplinary work spanning a range of cultural and geographical contexts which engages in the treatment of translation and translation practice as social and historical events. Primary research in translation and interpreting history will be explored, as will critical reflections on theoretical and methodological developments and innovations in the field. The series brings together and pushes forward original research in translation and interpreting history, making the series of particular interest to graduate students, researchers, and scholars in translation and interpreting studies, as well as related fields including comparative literature, history, and cultural studies. For more information about the series or to submit a proposal, please contact the editors at: TIHseries@gmail.com.

by Dimitris Asimakoulas   This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals and their English translations and offers a unique, language-led research agenda for cultural flows, and the systematic analysis of textual norms in a multimodal environment. It will appeal to students and scholars of Modern Languages, Translation Studies, Comics Studies, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. For more information, visit https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030195267 

The National Centre for Writing is seeking applications from translators into English for the 2019 NCW Emerging Translator Mentorship programme. This year’s confirmed languages are: French (mentored by Sarah Ardizzone) Korean (mentored by Deborah Smith) Norwegian (mentored by Kari Dickson) Polish (mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Russian (mentored by Robert Chandler) Italian, with a focus on Swiss Italian (mentored by Howard Curtis) Tilted Axis Mentorship for a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic literary translator based in the UK, working from any language into English (mentored by Jeremy Tiang) Further language announcements to be made shortly.   For more information, visit https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/emerging-translator-mentorships/apply-now-2/?fbclid=IwAR2ob9dwVzZWk0_66-tQ89XcE5lQeeWGmMiNnn_1rrYvjBeYUXXugDWV_Fc

by Kirsten Malmkjær Kirsten Malmkjær argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form. Examining notions of creativity and their relationship with translation and focusing on how the originality of translation is manifest in texts, the author explores a range of texts and their translations, in order to illustrate original as opposed to derivative translation. With reference to thirty translators’ discourses on their source texts and the author’s own experience of translating a short text, Malmkjær explores the theory of creativity, philosophical aesthetics, the philosophy of language, experimental and theoretical translation studies, and translators’ discourses on their work. Showing the relevance of these varied topics to the study of translating and translations underlines their complexity and the immensity of understanding that is regularly invested in translations. This work proposes a complete rethinking of the concepts of creativity and originality, as applied to translation, and is vital reading for advanced students and researchers in translation studies and comparative literature. For more information, visit https://www.routledge.com/Translation-and-Creativity-1st-Edition/Malmkjaer/p/book/9781138123274?fbclid=IwAR3hXK-pTrOtgHFTHlecsFkWtShsZ_NZIhzQpzjoIrvjf7fj01AYbn2j71I

The European Commission's directorate for interpreting DGSCIC has launched a project on creating a Knowledge Centre on Interpretation. For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/education/knowledge-centre-interpretation/

Applications are invited for an ERC-funded PhD studentship in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter to work with the lead researchers on the “RusTrans: Dark Side of Translation” project. This five-year project investigates the ideology underlying the practice of Russian-to-English literary translation in the 20th and 21st centuries. The fully funded studentship, beginning in January 2020, will be hosted at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus. The studentship is for 3.5 years and is open to students of any nationality. The studentship will cover University tuition fees at Home, EU, or International rates, with a stipend equivalent to the Research Council’s UK national minimum stipend (£15,009 in 2019/20). Candidates will be expected to have completed a Master’s degree by the time of starting the studentship; they should not yet have formally commenced a doctoral project. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an independent research question relevant to the RusTrans project, while assisting the PI, Dr Muireann Maguire, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Cathy McAteer, with project-related research and administration. This research question should address the literary translation of Russian into the language of a non-Anglophone nation anywhere in the globe where Russian culture exerts or has exerted a strong cultural or political influence in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. Some funding will be provided for research-related travel, including limited funding to carry out research in the nation of his or her research focus. In addition, the successful candidate will assist the PI and Postdoctoral Fellow with conference organization, website management (including writing regular blog posts and contributing to the project’s social media accounts), and other project administration. He or she will have opportunities to present new research at the project’s two international conferences in 2020 and 2022, and to co-write articles on the project case studies with Dr Maguire and Dr McAteer. More information about the project can be found here. The closing date for applications in September 2, 2019. For more information, visit http://rustrans.exeter.ac.uk/about/how-to-get-involved/phd-studentship-in-the-history-of-literary-translation-from-russian-into-another-language/

Editor: Fernando Prieto Ramos   Table of contents The use of corpora in legal and institutional translation studies: Directions and applications Fernando Prieto Ramos   When international case-law meets national law: A corpus-based study on Italian system-bound loan words in ECtHR judgments Katia Peruzzo   Deontic modality in English-Thai legislative translation: A corpus-based study Mali Satthachai and Dorothy Kenny   The formulaicity of translations across EU institutional genres: A corpus-driven analysis of lexical bundles in translated and non-translated language Łucja Biel, Dariusz Koźbiał and Katarzyna Wasilewska   Building representative multi-genre corpora for legal and institutional translation research: The LETRINT approach to text categorization and stratified sampling Fernando Prieto Ramos, Giorgina Cerutti and Diego Guzmán   A corpus-based study of terminological variation in business incorporation documents from the United States and Peru Mary Ann Monteagudo Medina   Procuração/power of attorney: A corpus-based translation-oriented analysis Tereza Passos e Sousa Marques Afonso and Maria do Céu Henriques de Bastos   The challenge of multilingual ‘plain language’ in translation-mediated Swiss administrative communication: A preliminary comparative analysis of insurance leaflets Annarita Felici and Cornelia Griebel   For more information, visit https://benjamins.com/catalog/ts.8.1

Edited By Eugenia Dal Fovo and Paola Gentile   A glance at the current state of the profession reveals a varied scenario in which Translation and Interpreting (T&I) constitute two interlingual processes usually performed by the same person in the same communicative situation or in different situations within the same set of relations and contacts. Although both practices call for somewhat different communicative competences, they are often seen as a single entity in the eyes of the public at large. T&I are thus found in relations of overlap, hybridity and contiguity and can be effected variously in professional practices and translation processes and strategies. Yet, when it comes to research, T&I have long been regarded as two separate fields of study. This book aims to address this gap by providing insights into theoretical and methodological approaches that can help integrate both fields into one and the same discipline. Each of the contributions in this volume offers innovative perspectives on T&I by focusing on topics that cover areas as diverse as training methods, identity perception, use of English as lingua franca, T&I strategies, T&I in specific speech communities, and the socio-professional status of translators and interpreters. 

Edited by Özlem Berk Albachten and ŞehnazTahir Gürçağlar   This book highlights the unique history and cultural context of retranslation in Turkey, offering readers a survey of the diverse range of fields, disciplines, and genres in which retranslation has assumed a central position. Further, it addresses largely unexplored issues such as retranslation in Ottoman literature, paratextual positioning and marketing of retranslations, legal retranslation, and retranslation in music. As such, it makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of research on retranslation by placing special emphasis on non-literary translation, making the role of retranslation particularly visible in connection with politics and philosophy in Turkey.

Edited by Rebecca Tipton and Louisa Desilla   The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Pragmatics provides an overview of key concepts and theory in pragmatics, charts developments in the disciplinary relationship between translation studies and pragmatics, and showcases applications of pragmatics-inspired research in a wide range of translation, spoken and signed language interpreting activities. Bringing together 22 authoritative chapters by leading scholars, this reference work is divided into three sections: Influences and Intersections, Methodological Issues, and Applications. Contributions focus on features of linguistic pragmatics and their analysis in authentic and experimental data relating to a wide range of translation and interpreting activities, including: news, scientific, literary and audiovisual translation, translation in online social media, healthcare interpreting and audio description for the theatre. It also encompasses contributions on issues beyond the level of the text that include the study of interpersonal relationships in practitioner networks and the development of pragmatic competence in interpreter training. Each chapter includes many practical illustrative examples and a list of recommended reading. Fundamental reading for students and academics in translation and interpreting studies, this is also an essential resource for those working in the related fields of linguistics, communication and intercultural studies.