Unprofessional Translation

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Singularity, An Irksome Translation Norm

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The notion of  norms  in translation was introduced by an Israeli translatologist, the late Gideon Toury , in the 1970s. The term refe...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

Translation and Transfer

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There’s been a puzzling spike in requests for one of my papers. Its title is From Fairy Tale to Pantomime and it can be accessed on m...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Sign Language Interpreter Awareness

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Sign language interpreters (SLI) have been at work quietly for a long time. In the 1980s, I worked alongside several of them in Ottawa as...
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Aging and Translating

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Recently a student asked for a copy of an old article of mine, The Difference Between Natural and Professional Translation . You can tel...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

Professor Sylvie Lambert PhD, 1950-2020

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It is with great sorrow that we have received news of the sudden death of Sylvie Lambert. In her younger days she was one of the gene...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

NPIT in the Covid-19 Crisis

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You have probably read that the NPIT 5 conference has been cancelled for this year. Hopefully 2021. Meanwhile NPIT continues unabated, ind...
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Friday, March 27, 2020

Honoris Causa

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Last month I emerged from hibernation in Valencia to travel to the southern city of Malaga, there to receive an honorary degree (Doctorado H...
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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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