Introduction

How to Avoid Errors in Translation from English

t a meeting of the Portuguese Language Division some time ago, Tereza Braga, a former administrator of the Division, sang the praises of a book written in Portuguese about the translation and interpreting professions. When Gabe Bokor asked me to review a copy of it, I jumped at the chance. Expectations were high for this small volume whose title translates: "His Majesty, the Interpreter: the Fascinating World of Simultaneous Translation." And, overall, my expectations were not disappointed.

por María-José Varela Salinas, reseñada por

sta obra colectiva, editada por María-José Varela Salinas, profesora titular del Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación de la Universidad de Málaga, recoge una serie de contribuciones que está relacionada, como bien indica su título, con la evaluación en los Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación. Los autores de los distintos capítulos muestran su inquietud por la evaluación del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes y por la inexistencia de criterios normalizados acerca de la evaluación en este campo. Avalados por su propia experiencia docente presentan las distintas competencias que todo profesional de este campo debe dominar, sus repercusiones en la didáctica de la traducción y, por tanto, en la evaluación.

"There are three factors: the disease, the patient, the physician.
The physician is the servant of the art. The patient
must cooperate with the physician in combating the disease."

Hippocrates, Epidemics, I, 11 (ca. 400 B.C.)

ombating the disease," said our venerable Father of Medicine close to 400 years B.C. (1), and today we say: "kill the virus," "arrest the growth," "eradicate the infection," "conquer cancer." "Senator Kennedy is bravely battling brain cancer," said the newscaster.

Practical tips for practicing translators.
 
 Q:

Dear Fire Ant & Worker Bee,

I can see a recession is coming on; what should I do to protect my translation business from it?

Problems and Suggestions

«With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once,
anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized»
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

No son pocas las ocasiones en las que el ser humano expresa ideas mediante diversos actos de habla sin emplear los significantes que habitualmente cabría esperar para ello. Este modo de proceder, tan confuso o tan evidente, dependiendo de los oídos que alcance y para el que se dice que los británicos poseen un gusto exquisito, se pone de relieve cada vez que respondemos con un «¡con mucho gusto!» al encargo de una incómoda tarea o un «¡no me digas!» ante una información ya conocida.

und seine Übersetzungsmöglichkeiten

1. Einleitung

Dieser Artikel möchte einen Beitrag zur Untersuchung der Übersetzungsmöglichkeiten der ausschließlich im Portugiesischen vorkommenden Verbform Infinitivo Pessoal oder Infinitivo flexionado (de. persönlicher Infinitiv bzw. konjugierter Infinitiv) leisten.

Jim Knopf, Passion, the Mind, and Being a Translator

through Textual Genre

In recent years the concept of translation competence has steadily gained acceptance up to the point where it has now become the most widely discussed issue in relation to translator training. Proof of this can be seen, for example, in the work carried out by Hurtado in the PACTE group (2001) or that of Kelly (2002, 2005, 2006). Translation competence is a complex, multifaceted concept that takes in a number of different aspects.

Many researchers have adapted the literary studies tradition focused on text genres to both the field of linguistics and language teaching (Swales, 1990, and Bhatia, 1993, among others) and to translation (Hatim and Mason, 1990; or, for example, the work of the GENTT team, and more especially García Izquierdo, ed. 2005).

A Conversation with Ilan Stavans

What Kind of Education and Training for Translators?

In the new era of industrial translation environment in which we industrial (i.e., non-literary) translators are now operating, translated text has moved from paper to a screen, and much of it comes forth, ready made, from the storage yard of computer memory, needing only to be edited and supplemented to fit a particular context.

Professor Camayd-Freixas performed an act of courage in going public with his opinions and concerns. Whether his actions and his essay were the best way of expressing his opinions and drawing public attention to what he and many observers considered to be injustices perpetrated upon the detained workers is open to argument.

Building an Appealing Brand Image in the Translation of Soft News

Translating Symbols from Persian to English

Kirkup's Translation of Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir as a Case Study

Abstract

The paper critically analyzes the English translation of Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir. It also explores the practical possibility of fidelity in literary translation. Since fidelity as a major translation criterion has been understood or misunderstood in many ways, this writer feels that it is essential to investigate the subject in order to ascertain whether fidelity is actually possible, particularly in literary translation, using a novel of an African author translated by a European as a case study.

The paper relies on Saint Jérôme's theory of 'non verbum pro verbo, sed sensum exprimere de sensu' (not word-for-word but sense-for-sense), the forerunner of the Interpretative Method propounded by the Paris School o Interpreters and Translators, University of Paris III, to analyze the English translations done by James Kirkup. The paper concludes that fidelity is a possibility in literary translation using the interpretative method.

Getting Graphic

Most graphic formats (including .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, and various others) don't contain text. This is true even if it appears to be readable text because the text is nothing more than pixels (little colored dots) on a virtual canvas. While they may form shapes that represent letters, these have nothing to do with the editable letters or words you deal with in a text editor.

A Case Study of City Introduction

The process of translating a legal text into a foreign language is littered with a series of different obstacles which may be divided by type.
    One of the following may exist in the two legal systems “featured” in the translation:

Introduction

Tt was not until the late 1970s, to be more exact, in 1978, the year of reform and political opening-up, that the real market-oriented translation appeared in mainland China. By market-oriented translation I mean a kind of translation service which every individual or organization can access. Before 1978 China was relatively closed, only open to socialist and Third World (Chairman Mao's term) countries. International cultural, economic and technical exchanges were not frequent. As a result, there was little need of translation services. The basic pattern of the then translation market was self-sufficient in the sense that the government departments and state-owned enterprises had their own full-time salaried translators whose service was provided only for their own institutions. As for the freelance translators, they were actually part-timers and always affiliated with a certain governmental organization doing a certain civil service work; their number was quite limited. In one word, the market at that time was not totally open.

Differences in the act of translation between two groups of ESL Japanese students