LINGUIST List 21.2720
Fri Jun 25 2010
Calls: Translation/Austria
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1. Alena
Petrova,
TRANSLATA 2011
Message 1: TRANSLATA 2011
Date: 23-Jun-2010
From: Alena Petrova <Alena.Petrovauibk.ac.at>
Subject: TRANSLATA 2011
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Full Title: TRANSLATA 2011
Date: 12-May-2011 - 14-May-2011
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
Contact Person: Alena Petrova
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.translata.info
Linguistic Field(s): Translation
Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2010
Meeting Description:
The Institutes and Departments for Translation and Interpreting, establishedin Europe after World War II, are celebrating their fiftieth and sixtieth-yearjubilees and the new academic discipline of translation studies is already halfa century old. This is a good occasion and a good reason to take stock of thedevelopment and the state of art of translation studies.
After the successful 10-year long tradition of the 'International InnsbruckLectures on Translation Studies' and the International Summer Schools'SummerTrans', held in Innsbruck, Saarbrücken and Vienna the 1stTRANSLATA International Conference aims to have a new impact onfundamental translation and interpreting research whilst offering a forum forbroad exchange between researchers, teachers and practitioners. On thebasis of recent and new research results as well as lively discussion betweenestablished researchers and newcomers to the discipline, the conferencehopes to provide new insights into the different kinds of translation andinterpreting activities, at the same time gaining ground on the way toscientifically-based quality standards in translation and interpreting.
Call for Papers
1st International Conference on Translation and Interpreting StudiesTRANSLATA 2011'Translation & Interpreting Research: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow'Innsbruck, 12th - 14th May 2011
The 1st International Conference TRANSLATA 'Translation & InterpretingResearch: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow', which will be held at the Institutefor Translation Studies at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck(Tyrol, Austria), aims to bring together experienced and young scholars oftranslation and interpreting studies as well as trainers and practitioners toexplore and discuss the following issues:
1. Translation Studies: development - problems - solutions - open questions2. Basic issues of traditional translation research and new questions3. New approaches, paradigms and theories4. The subject of Translation Studies5. Multi-/interdisciplinarity in Translation Studies6. Scientific methodology in Translation Studies7. Changes in the global world and challenges for translation theory andtranslation practice8. General translation theory versus specific theories for literary translation,specialised translation, audiovisual translation, interpreting9. Process and result of literary translation, specialised translation,audiovisual translation, interpreting10. Semantic theories and meaning in translation and interpreting11. The linguistic, cognitive, communicative, cultural, technologicaldimensions of translation and interpreting12. Relevance and application of translation theory for quality standards andquality assurance in different kinds of translation13. Multilingualism, especially in the education of translators.
The Working Language of the conference will be German, but papers arewelcome in German, English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Thepapers of the conference will be published - as with the InternationalInnsbruck Lectures on Translation Studies - in the series 'ForumTranslationswissenschaft'.
Participation is open to scholars, students and teachers in the field oftranslation studies, translators, translation companies, interpreters, linguists,terminologists, publishers etc.
Abstracts:
We are inviting proposals which deal with one or more of the issues identifiedabove. Papers are allotted 20 minutes for presentation followed by 10minutes discussion.
Please submit your abstract stating the title of the paper, name(s) andaffiliation(s), complete postal address and e-mail address of the author(s) byusing the registration system of the TRANSLATA-website: www.translata.infoor the contact: mailtranslata.info.
Deadlines:
Submission deadline for abstract (400 words max.): 15th October 2010Notification for abstract acceptance: 15th November 2010
Registration fees: 80 EuroEarly bird registration fee (deadline 31st December 2010): 60 EuroStudent concession: 40 Euro
Fee includes: programme, abstract book; coffee, tea, juice and biscuits;publication of paper in the conference proceedings.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pöckl & Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lew Zybatow
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