SEELANGS Digest - 24 Jan 2014 (#2014-41)
Yokoyama, Olga
olga at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU
Sat Jan 25 17:19:28 UTC 2014
Re жe and ведь I recommend the 1997 Harvard dissertation by Lillian Parrott, "Discourse orientation and inference: the usage of the Russian particles Ze and Ved'". Olga T. Yokoyama
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Topics of the day:
1. Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English (2)
2. Teaching position available
3. CFP: Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014 @ Ohio State (abstracts due
May 1)
4. CFP/CONF.- DEADLINE EXTENSION: ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference
Committee, Astana, May 22-24, 2014; Deadline: Jan. 29
5. Call for STUDENT translations of science fiction
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:57:16 +0000
From: "Charles E. Townsend" <townsend at PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English
Mr. Hayden and others,
Or if you look at the index of Russian words in my old-fashioned advanced Russian textbook, Continuing With Russian, I think you will find all of these words discussed pretty decently, with suggested translations; e.g., The key role of "small" words in really learning languages has always been a near obsession with me and I wrote some articles discussing these words (e.g., "On Small Words That Are Big Problems", Russian Language Journal, 1972). In CWR, ведь is treated on pp. 175-176, да on p.155 and p.311, and жe on p.228.
Charles Townsend
On Jan 24, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Robert Orr wrote:
Off the cuff I think Terence Wade’s Russian Grammar has a chapter on that topic.
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Dear SEELANGers,
Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages?
Sincerely,
Brian Hayden
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:33:30 -0600
From: "Gary R. Jahn" <gjahn at UMN.EDU>
Subject: Teaching position available
Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Position in Russian Program in Slavic Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Program in Slavic Languages & Literatures in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota seeks candidates for a position in Russian. Responsibilities include: teaching six courses per year (three per semester) at the beginning and intermediate levels, and possibly advanced language or literature and culture courses; engaging in ongoing curriculum development; holding office hours to assist and advise students; performing some administrative duties.
This is a 100%, nine-month position, annually renewable based on funding and performance, beginning August 25, 2014. Salary range is $39,000-$44,000, depending on qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits available.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• MA degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in Russian, Foreign Language Education, or a related field.
• Two years of post-secondary teaching experience.
• Native or near-native fluency in Russian & English.
• Demonstration of commitment to quality teaching and program development.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• PhD degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in Russian, Foreign Language Education, or a related field
• Experience teaching literature and/or culture courses
• Experience teaching American college- or university-level undergraduates.
• Strong background (e.g., coursework, publications) in foreign language education, second language acquisition, proficiency-based teaching.
• Interest in curriculum development.
• Positive evaluations from students, peers, and/or supervisors.
Applicants with an M.A. will be appointed as Teaching Specialists. Those with a Ph.D. will be appointed at the Lecturer level.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Persons interested and who meet the qualifications listed above should apply through the University of Minnesota’s online application system (https://employment.umn.edu; Requisition number: 188509). Supporting materials required for the initial application:
1. Cover Letter/Letter of Intent
2. CV
3. List of three recommenders (including contact information)
Completed applications must be received no later than March 1, 2014. Please provide a translation of any material not in English.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:50:01 -0600
From: Jessie Labov <labov1 at HUMANITIES.OSU.EDU>
Subject: CFP: Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014 @ Ohio State (abstracts due May 1)
CALL FOR PAPERS: OSU Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014
We are excited to announce the interdisciplinary conference, "Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia", which will take place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 9-11, 2014. The conference completes and complements a series of interdisciplinary activities in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant program. For more information on the seminar, please visit: sawyer.osu.edu.
On the surface, the Balkans and South Asia might seem to have little in common. However, despite many specific differences, they share similar dilemmas of linguistic, religious, cultural, and ethno-national complexity, similar turbulent political developments associated with imperial, post-colonial, and Cold War legacies, and a similar diversity of responses to these historical and contemporary challenges. Both areas have seen a mixing of people through migratory settlement, conquest, contact, and trade. But both have also experienced periods of reaction to cultural hybridity: a radical unmixing of people through partition and population exchange. The impact of these upheavals is seen in the direct violence of war and devastation, but also through crises on the levels of language, religion, and other modes of culture and human creative activity. The unique yet similar issues within each region compel us towards a comparative approach that will offer a transnational perspective on the intersection of language, religion, culture, and nationalism.
We thus invite proposals for paper presentations from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective within the humanities and social sciences addressing one or more of the following themes in the Balkans or in South Asia, or comparatively between the two regions:
1. Violence, Gender, and Human Rights
2. Nation, Religion, Language, and Secularism
3. Minorities, State, Language, and Citizenship
4. Postcolonial and Postsocialist Perspectives on Neoliberalism
Additionally, selected papers will be included in a collection of essays resulting from the conference.
Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for student lodging.
Please send a 350-word abstract in PDF format and brief (one paragraph maximum) bio to sawyerseminar at osu.edu by March 1, 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 1, 2014 and the program will be announced by June 1, 2014.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:50:09 -0500
From: "Park, Lynda" <lypark at PITT.EDU>
Subject: CFP/CONF.- DEADLINE EXTENSION: ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Committee, Astana, May 22-24, 2014; Deadline: Jan. 29
DEADLINE EXTENSION
ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Committee May 22-44, 2014 - Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
DEADLINE: Wed., January 29, 2014
Webpage: http://shss.nu.edu.kz/shss/Events/Conferences/ASEEES-CESS
Email: Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz<mailto:Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz>
We are offering a short extension of the deadline for submissions to the ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference to be held at Nazarbayev University this coming May. The deadline is extended until Wednesday, January 29.
For those who have already submitted a proposal, please note you should receive an confirmation of receipt by Jan 25. If you do not receive confirmation by Jan 26, you should re-send your proposal to ensure that it is not lost (and then make sure you get confirmation by Jan. 30). Email problems do occasionally occur.
If there is anyone who has already submitted a proposal but would like to use the deadline extension to make improvements to the proposal, you may do so, sending the new version with a note that it is revised.
For full information about the conference, please see the Call for Papers and information on the webpage:
http://shss.nu.edu.kz/shss/Events/Conferences/ASEEES-CESS
To ensure that you submit a properly completed application by the final deadline of Jan. 29, please note the following points carefully:
1) All those seeking to be considered for inclusion in the conference must complete the PDF forms that can be found on the conference webpage:
For individual paper proposals, the "Individual Proposal Form" is required, while for pre-organized panels, we need a "Panel Proposal Form" for the panel and an "Individual Proposal Form" for each of the panelists.
2) In order to make sure that you complete the PDF form correctly:
- Please ensure that you have an up-to-date version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader program (available for free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/ - versions 10 and 11 certainly work, while older versions may not). Those with older versions can find that the form does not work, and either data cannot be entered or it is not saved properly.
- Please save the form from the website on your computer *before* filling it out, and then open the file on your computer with Acrobat Reader to fill it out (do not fill it out from within your browser in online regime as the data may not save correctly and may be lost).
- Please save the form carefully in the normal way (use Save As... and give it a file name with your name in it) - do not print it, scan it or use "print to -> Adobe PDF" (otherwise the data cannot be extracted normally from the form).
- Please check your form by closing and reopening it before sending it to ensure that the data is saved properly.
Please also read carefully the rules of participation that are listed on the proposal form and sign it to indicate your acceptance of these (note for example that proposals for papers to be presented in Russian can be accepted *only* if they are included in a pre-organized panel that is designated as either Russian-only or mixed Russian and English).
From the proposals received so far, it is clearly going to be a very interesting and well-attended conference, so we encourage you your participation!
ASEEES is offering a very limited number of travel grants for our members to present their papers at the conference. Click HERE<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fdhlbo1Q7K729Fvm38_rW9ejLA7Bm85btXUCohB4j3E/viewform> for the application. The grant application deadline is March 1.
Please send all conference related inquiries to: Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz<mailto:Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz>.
Best regards,
Lynda Park, Executive Director
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:34:30 -0500
From: Sibelan Forrester <sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU>
Subject: Call for STUDENT translations of science fiction
Dear colleagues,
Passing on this call for submissions, directed at YOUR students: the deadline is February 28, giving them just time to translate some nice short SF story from Russian, or Polish, or Romanian...
Thanks for your attention, and best wishes for the weekend -
Sibelan
Forwarded message:
Hello.
My name is Pepe Rojo. I'm a science fiction writer from Mexico, and I am studying an MFA in Writing at UCSD. My duties include editing Alchemy, UCSD's journal of translation (along with Paola Capó-García), and we are preparing for our Spring 2014 issue, which will include a special section called GLOBAL SCIENCE FICTION where we want to publish science fiction from all over the world.
Alchemy only publishes translations made by students under the advisory of a teacher or faculty advisor. Here's a link to our submissions guidelines <https://alchemy.ucsd.edu/submissions/>.
We would really love to include some Eastern Europe Science Fiction translations in our issue, and we are asking for advice and support on the matter.
Thanks a lot.
Pepe Rojo
Editor, Alchemy
www.alchemy.ucsd.edu <http://www.alchemy.ucsd.edu>
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:15:58 -0800
From: Oleksandr Spirin <oleksandr.spirin at YMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English
Dear Brian,
I would like attract your attention firstly to ordinary sources like Lingvo.15 multilingual electronic dictionary summarising and in some cases combining many en-ru and ru-en "paper" dictionaries.
Then, I will recommend you Russ.-Engl. Dict. of Interjections by D.I. Kveselevich and V.P. Sasina (Moscow: 'Astrel' Publ. House, 2001), Russ.-Engl. Dict. of Winged Words by I.A. Uolsh and V.P. Berkov (Moscow: 'AST' - 'Astrel', 2003), and translations of prose by Ivan Turgenev done by Olga Scharze with apt and well turned examples of phrases.
Sincerely,
Oleksandr Spirin
On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:28 AM, Brian Hayden <bkhayden1990 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
Dear SEELANGers,
Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages?
Sincerely,
Brian Hayden
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