Promoting discipline of translation
The speaker will discuss the respective visions for Hong Kong that the two dramatists - Augustine Mok and Danny Yung - have worked towards since the 1980s and the factors that have prevented their fulfilment in the 21st century.
As Australia is now seen as a country that has extensive infrastructure for community interpreting, the speaker seeks to provide answers to two questions: “How did community interpreting become so extensive in Australia?” and “What do we know about those who provide and who use community interpreting services?”.
講者為三藏教授師佛學博士堪布，將與參加者分享翻譯《六祖壇經》和《道德經》過程中的個人點滴和心路歷程。
Dr. Ponomareva will focus on evaluating the presence of the translator in his or her work by looking at various book covers and the paratext of three translations of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1830s) into English. It will be shown that these translators had appointed themselves to offer their Onegin(s) to English-speaking audiences as, with various degrees of self-confidence, they were sure that they were famous enough to advertise their translations and to attract their prospective readers, sometimes even more then Pushkin himself.
Professor Setton will explore some of the challenges to human-compatible machine interpreting (MI), as acknowledged by its designers, through a view of linguistic communication from a different, more humanities-oriented branch of cognitive science, rooted in the observation of ordinary language: i.e., pragmatics, and in particular, relevance theory.
Dr. Mak will explain why the National Bible Society of Scotland (NBSS), one of the major Bible publishers and distributors in late Qing and Republican China, published its annotated edition of Proverbs in the Mandarin Union Version in the early 1930s, more than three decades after the NBSS became the first Bible society to publish annotated Chinese Gospels and Acts in the 1890s
Dr. Siu will offer insights into how financial translators can capitalize on state-of-the-art language applications in the era of generative AI.
Professor Hsieh will examine interpreters’ functions and ethical dilemmas in managing cross-cultural care, using data collected from provider-patient interactions and in-depth interviews.
In this presentation, the speaker will share with us the initial findings from his latest research project which investigates a new way of working with machine translation output, designed to help mitigate the “fluency trap”.
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.