28.3021, Calls: Translation/Austria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3021. Wed Jul 12 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3021, Calls: Translation/Austria

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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:09:20
From: Maria Koliopoulou [maria.koliopoulou at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: 3rd International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Studies “Redefining and Refocusing Translation and Interpreting Studies

 
Full Title: 3rd International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Studies “Redefining and Refocusing Translation and Interpreting Studies 
Short Title: TRANSLATA III 

Date: 07-Dec-2017 - 09-Dec-2017
Location: Innsbruck, Austria 
Contact Person: Alena Petrova
Meeting Email: translata2017 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.uibk.ac.at/translation/translata-2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Translation 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

TRANSLATA III is the third in a series of triennial conferences on Translation
and Interpreting Studies at the University of Innsbruck. This conference
series was launched in 2011 and has always been, from its beginnings onward,
one of the largest conferences in its field. TRANSLATA sees itself as a
conference devoted to basic research in translatology and has the aim, amongst
other things, to re-establish translation proper (=professional translation
and interpreting) as a core object of study.


Call for Papers:

TRANSLATA III, entitled “Redefining and Refocusing Translation and
Interpreting Studies”, wishes to offer all those dealing with translation
theoretically, practically, didactically and commercially a shared forum to
discuss questions and problems of translation and the training of translators
and interpreters. Thus, the focus in on both fundamentally theoretical, as
well as on relevant applied and practical questions, such as the different
types of translation and interpreting and their scientific description:

- Translation theory and translation process research as well as innovative
research methods (e.g. quantitative, empirical approaches supported by
statistics)
- Interdisciplinary research design in Translation Studies
- New linguistic approaches (computer linguistics, corpus linguistics,
probabilistic linguistics etc.) and Translation Studies
- Translation competence
- Translation quality and criticism
- Translation didactics
- Translation market and practice – new developments
- Technical translation
- Mechanical translation
- Translation Studies research and/in the digital humanities
- Website translation/localisation
- Translation technology
- Literary translation
- Film and audiovisual translation
- Conference interpreting
- Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting
- Communal interpreting
- Sign language interpreting
- Etc.

TRANSLATA is characterised by high participation and internationality. You are
very welcome to present and discuss your thoughts, ideas and experiences to
and with the international scientific community of translators.

The working language of the conference will be German but papers are also
welcome in English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Abstracts:
If you wish to present a paper (20 minute presentation followed by 10 minute
discussion), please fill in the registration form and submit your abstract
(300 words max.) under the following link:  www.translata.info/registration by
August 15, 2017. Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent by the
scientific committee by August 31, 2017.

Registration fee:
Early bird registration fee (until 30th September 2017): €80 
Registration fee (from 1st October to 15th November 2017):  €100
Student registration fee: €50

The fee includes: conference documents (programme, list of participants, book
of abstracts), food and beverages during coffee breaks (coffee, tea, juice and
biscuits), some of the additional social events (such as the guided tour of
Innsbruck).

Scientific committee (in alphabetical order):
Local: Erica Autelli, Maria Koliopoulou, Alena Petrova, Peter Sandrini, Astrid
Schmidhofer, Andy Stauder, Pius ten Hacken, Michael Ustaszewski, Katharina
Walter, Lew Zybatow
International: to be announced

Organising committee:
Alena Petrova (head of the committee)
Daria Fuchshuber-Weber, Lisa Lanthaler, Annabell Marinell, Sandra Reiter,
Peter Sandrini, Andreas Schumacher, Beate Steinhauser

Further information about the conference will be posted on the conference
website www.uibk.ac.at/translation/translata-2017.




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