[Corpora-List] CULT-BCN 2004

[Pilar Sánchez-Gijón]

CULT-BCN 2004

Barcelona, January 23rd-25th

Organised by the Translation and Interpreting Department

(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

and the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttore

(Università di Bologna)



1st Call for Papers



 AIMS AND TOPICS

CULT 2004 is the follow up to CULT 2000, organised by the Scuola Superiore
di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttore of the Università di Bologna
in Forlì in November 2000 (http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/cult2k).

The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and theorists
sharing an interest in the design and use of corpora in translation-related
areas, with special reference to translator and interpreter training.
Contributions, in the form of papers, demonstrations and posters are sought
on, but not restricted to the following topics:

- Translation/Interpreting-specific issues relating to the design,
development and use(s) of corpora
- Integrating corpus work into introductory/advanced translation courses for
translators/interpreters
- Corpus-based language learning/teaching for translators/interpreters
- Implications of corpus use with respect to theories of
translation/interpreting
- The respective roles of corpora, conventional reference tools, and other
computational translation aids
- The World Wide Web as a resource for translation/interpreting
- Corpora and terminology
- Corpus-based descriptive translation studies in the classroom
- Interaction of CAT and corpus tools in the translation classroom



Invited Speakers

Guy Aston

Krista Varantola

Silvia Bernardini

Federico Zanettin



 1st call for papers

Proposals for contributions relating to any of the topics listed above
should reach the organising committee not later than September 30th complete
with abstracts of about 500 words. All proposals will be reviewed. For
further details about the submission procedure please refer to the
Conference Web page or contact the organising committee at the addresses
below.



Address for correspondence

CULT-BCN 2004, Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació
Edifici K, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193-Bellaterra, Spain

Tel.: +34 93 5813371
Fax: +34 93 5812762
E-mail: cg.cult.bcn at uab.es
WWW: http://www.fti.uab.es/cg.cult.bcn



Local organising committee

Allison Beeby
Patricia Rodríguez Inés
Pilar Sánchez-Gijón