Unprofessional Translation

Friday, July 31, 2009

Directionality

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In interpreting, directionality means whether the translation is done from a first language to a second language (from an A language to a B ...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Church Interpreters 1: Antiquity

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There have been interpreters in temples and churches since antiquity. The etymology of the synonym dragoman , like that of its cognates in s...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Innateness

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What, if anything, is innate about translating? An early paper about Natural Translation bore the title ‘Translation as an Innate Skill’ (Ha...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Danica Seleskovitch

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Danica Seleskovitch (1921-2001) was a famous teacher of expert conference interpreting. She was also famous as a researcher and theorist. Sh...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Lectoescritura and Brokering

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A thesis has arrived via Google from the Universidad de los Andes at Puebla, Mexico, about Practicas de Lectoescritura en el Hogar (Initial...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

More on Collective Translation

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A follow-on from my 7 July posting. Non-professional collective translation goes by several names. One is ‘community translation’. In China ...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Essential definitions

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There are some terms in constant use in this blog which need definitions. 1. Natural Translators These are people who do translation of a si...
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Degrees in Arabic and Middle East History. Certified translator and certified conference interpreter. 30 years of teaching translating and interpreting in Canada, Spain and elsewhere, and of research. Now retired in Spain. For more, see 'natural translation hypothesis' in Wikipedia.
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