In this presentation, the speaker will draw on concepts in agency theory to understand better the factors that influence the ways in which translation services are procured and provided, and address the impact of extant and emergent developments specific to the translation industry.
Bible and Liturgical Domains of Translation Studies: The Ukrainian Perspective
Professor Oksana Dzera & Dr Taras Shmiher of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv will each give a talk: "Ukrainian Bible Translation: The Case of Resistance and Exile" (by Professor Oksana Dzera) and "Liturgical Translation as a Domain of Translation Studies" (by Dr Taras Shmiher).
Table Magic: On Translating Yam Gong’s Poetry
Mr James Shea and Dr Dorothy Tse, the co-translators of the book Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong, will read and discuss selected poems of the Hong Kong poet, consider his use of wordplay, and explore the challenges and pleasures of rendering his poems in English.
The Imaginary Invalid. Interpreters in Times of English as a Lingua Franca
In this presentation, the speaker will explore the nature of ELF and the potential pitfalls it harbours for interpreters. She will present insights from research looking into ELF in relation to interpreting and translation (ITELF) and discuss preliminary results from the CLINT (Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation) project that uses multiple methods to answer questions relating to whether or not ELF input actually impacts interpreters' processing and performance.
Machine Translation in Language Teaching (MTILT)
In this presentation, the speaker will introduce an approach called machine translation in language teaching (MTILT), which evolved from translation in language teaching (TILT). The MTILT approach draws on the idea of professional translator training and applies it to foreign language teaching.
Language, Knowledge, Experience – Studying Translation Positively
This talk is a general introduction to Fathoming Translation as Discursive Experience: Theorization and application (Zhu 2021, Routledge).
Evaluating the Quality of Easy and Plain German from an Addressee-oriented Perspective
In the countries that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disability (UN CRPD), access to information for people with disabilities has become an important issue. Depending on the different countries, Easy or Plain Language is the means of choice to improve the readability and comprehensibility of texts. The speaker will talk about her study on how the processing effort and textual quality of the language varieties vary with target groups’ demands.
Translating Refugees: Conducting Empirical Research on the Intersection of Language and Social Justice
The speaker will reveal, on the basis of authentic data examples from asylum interviews and legal judgments, how the co-construction of meaning, evidence and identities may amplify the asylum applicant’s vulnerability of voice.
COVID-19 and Metaphor: A Bilingual Study of Pandemic Metaphor in Hong Kong Public Discourse
The two speakers will present the research findings in their project designed to investigate metaphors about coronavirus as reflected in both English and Chinese texts published in the Hong Kong SAR.
A Sino-Tibetan-Western Interfaith Dialogue at Mount Gongga 貢嘎山 in Western Sichuan in the Summer of 1945
Dr Yunfei Bai reconstructs a series of interreligious conversations that took place in 1945 at Mount Gongga between two Western journalists, George Henry Johnston (1912–1970) and James Cobb Burke (1915–1964), and various members of the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist community based at Mount Gongga. This encounter during the republican period may serve as a historical precedent for rethinking the protracted contacts between Tibetan Buddhism and other epistemological traditions in the present day.