Corpora: TRANSLATION UNIVERSALS - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

[Sampo Nevalainen]

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
TRANSLATION UNIVERSALS - DO THEY EXIST?
October 19-20, 2001
Savonlinna, Finland

The question of translation universals has been a bone of contention in
translation studies since about the mid-nineties. To what extent is it 
possible
- or even useful - to talk about 'universal' features in connection with
translation? Is there something that translations (and translation processes)
tend to share, independently of the particular languages, the social
circumstances and the specific cognitive determinants involved?
A number of hypotheses have been suggested that might account for linguistic
features of translated language, some verging on the cognitive processes
involved. In the last few years, the issues have increasingly been put to
empirical test by using electronic corpora, either consisting of comparable
corpora (in one language) or parallel corpora (with source texts and their
translations).
The Savonlinna School of Translation studies has compiled a comparable 
corpus of
translated and untranslated Finnish, with a group of researchers seeking 
answers
to the plausibility of claims about linguistic translation universals as 
well as
exploring the specificities of translated Finnish. We are organising this
conference to engage in dialogue with colleagues concerned with similar
questions from different perspectives. The emphasis will be on 
product-oriented
studies of potential linguistic features on the one hand, and on
cognitively-based process studies on the other, but we also welcome 
alternative
viewpoints and different methodological and theoretical approaches.

The conference is hosted by The Savonlinna School of Translation Studies
(University of Joensuu, Finland) on October 19-20, 2001.

Invited speakers:
Gideon Toury, University of Tel Aviv
Mona Baker, UMIST
Andrew Chesterman, University of Helsinki

Second Circular and Call for Papers will be distributed in January 2001
Abstracts deadline: 20 April, 2001


Conveners

Anna Mauranen 			Pekka Kujamäki
University of Tampere 			Savonlinna School of Translation Studies
anna.mauranen at uta.fi 		pekka.kujamaki at joensuu.fi


Organising committee

Pekka Kujamäki
Jarmo Jantunen
Riitta Jääskeläinen
Hannu Kemppanen
Tiina Puurtinen
Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit

For more information, contact Pekka Kujamäki, Savonlinna School of Translation
Studies, University of Joensuu,
P.O. Box 48, FIN- 57101 Savonlinna, Finland
pekka.kujamaki at joensuu.fi



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Sampo Nevalainen, M.A.
Assistant, Russian - Translation and Interpretation
University of Joensuu
Savonlinna School of Translation Studies
P.O.Box 48
FIN-57101 Savonlinna
FINLAND

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