Unprofessional Translation

Consecutive interpreting is of two types. The kind done by Expert Conference Interpreters is the long or full kind. In this, speakers go o...

In my July 2 post, I called attention to a survey that was being done by Julie McDonough Dolmaya (see photo) of York University in Toronto....

A book that’s making waves in language teaching circles is Guy Cook’s Translation in Language Teaching . Making waves? Well, last year it w...

The last post recommended Peter Newmark’s article The Curse of Dogma in Translation Theory highly and gave a reference for it, but the orig...

Peter Newmark has died. He was a Grand Old Man of British translation studies and a very nice, helpful person. Dozens, perhaps hundreds ...

After the last three posts about ‘terps’, I thought I would move away from warfare. But not quite yet. However, this time it’s a very diffe...

For the earlier instalments of this summary, see the two previous posts. The middle part of Michael Griffin's chapter is devoted to a...