[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: Towards an Empirical Theory of Translation

[Stella Neumann]

Apologies for cross-postings

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Call for Participation

International Symposium

Towards an Empirical Theory of Translation

31 July - 1 August 2009
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

http://fr46.uni-saarland.de/croco/symposium.html

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*Invited Speakers*
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Juliane House
Arnt Lykke Jakobsen
Stig Johansson
Christian Matthiessen
Elke Teich
Gideon Toury

*Motivation*
The symposium marks the end of the project "CroCo - Cross-linguistic 
corpora: linguistic properties of translations - a corpus-based 
investigation for the language pair English-German" and is intended to 
identify research perspectives leading onwards from the topic of this 
project. It brings together scholars representing different perspectives 
that share an empirical view on the study of translations and 
contrastive linguistics.

Questions to be discussed during the symposium include, but are not 
limited to

- In what sense is an empirical theory of translation desirable and
possible?
- If so, how should this theory be characterised?
- Which aspects should it cover?
- Will it comprise universal features of translated texts?
- Which research methods (including which types of data) can provide the
insight required to formulate a general theory?
- Which existing findings pave the way towards such a theory?
- Which are essential features of a methodologically motivated dialogue 
between translation studies, contrastive/comparative linguistics and 
studies of language contact and change?
- ...

We would like to invite you to participate in this event and to be part 
of a lively discussion (talks will be by invitation only).

*Organising Committee*
Peggy Daut
Silvia Hansen-Schirra
Stella Neumann
Erich Steiner


-- 
Dr. Stella Neumann
Englische Sprach- und
Übersetzungswissenschaft

Universität des Saarlandes
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Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
sowie Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
Postfach 15 11 50
D-66041 Saarbrücken

Tel.: +49(681) 302 64307
Fax: +49(681) 302 64375
e-mail: st.neumann at mx.uni-saarland.de

http://fr46.uni-saarland.de/steiner.php
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