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"The purpose of this volume is to explore key issues, approaches and challenges to quality in institutional translation by confronting academics’ and practitioners’ perspectives. What the reader will find in this book is an interplay of two approaches: academic contributions providing the conceptual and theoretical background for discussing quality on the one hand, and chapters exploring selected aspects of quality and case studies from both academics and practitioners on the other. Our aim is to present these two approaches as a breeding ground for testing one vis-à-vis the other. This book studies institutional translation mostly through the lens of the European Union (EU) reality, and, more specifically, of EU institutions and bodies, due to the unprecedented scale of their multilingual operations and the legal and political importance of translation. Thus, it is concerned with the supranational (international) level, deliberately leaving national and other contexts aside. Quality in supranational institutions is explored both in terms of translation processes and their products – the translated texts."

Translation science --- Linguistics --- Translation. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages

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Vice versa bevat een groot aantal vertaalteksten, oefeningen en andere schrijfopdrachten. De teksten zijn verdeeld over twaalf 'dossiers' die elk een bepaald thema behandelen, bijvoorbeeld pers of economie. Per dossier zijn twee Nederlandse en twee Franse vertaalteksten opgenomen. De teksten zijn authentiek en komen uit diverse bronnen. Elk dossier wordt afgesloten met een schrijfopdracht, en een tekst of opdracht waar de lezer in het zakelijk leven mee te maken kan krijgen, of waarin het verschil tussen de Nederlandse en de Franse maatschappij aandacht krijgt. Ook zijn nog twee schrijfopdrachten bijgevoegd waarin de lezer het idioom moet gebruiken dat behoort tot het semantisch veld van het betreffende dossier.

Didactics of French --- Translation science --- French language --- Franse taal ; taalcursussen --- Vertalen ; Franse taal

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Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay category From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation, a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is being restructured by texting and other technologies. He examines how the alphabet itself is being forgotten by the young, how finger snapping has taken on a new meaning, how the use of ellipses has lapsed, and how autocorrect is shaping the way we communicate. In an incisive meditation, he shows how translating one's own work reinvents oneself in another tongue. The volume includes tête-à-têtes with Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Wilbur and short-fiction master Lydia Davis, as well as dialogues on silence, multilingualism, poetry, and the durability of the classics. Stavans's explorations cover Spanish, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and the hybrid lexicon of Spanglish. He muses on the meaning of foreignness and on living and dying in different languages. Among his primary concerns are the role and history of dictionaries and the extent to which the authority of language academies is less a reality than a delusion. He concludes with renditions into Spanglish of portions of Hamlet, Don Quixote, and The Little Prince. The wide range of themes and engaging yet informed style confirm Stavans's status, in the words of the Washington Post, as "Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast."

Psycholinguistics --- Translation science --- Self-translation. --- Auto-translation (Self-translation) --- Translating and interpreting

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The traditional view holds that professional interpreters should be transparent, invisible, passive, neutral, and detached, a view reiterated and reinforced in the prescribed interpreters' codes of conduct of national and international professional organizations. Such an idealized role construct, however, is from time to time deconstructed in real-life face-to-face interpreting events. In this paper, face-to-face interpreting is seen as a three-way communicative event in which the interpreter is a co-constructor of the interaction and can therefore be a powerful figure. From the perspective of interpreting as a socially-situated activity, the paper adopts Michel Foucault's concept of power, defining it not as the traditionally dominating force to monopolize, control, or rule, but as a kind of strategy, disposition, maneuver, tactic, or technique, functioning in a network of relations. Although interpreters often lack institutional power, they may be equipped with power within the exchange as a result of their bilingual and bicultural expertise. They may exercise this power by adopting various verbal and non-verbal strategies to negotiate, coordinate, check, and balance power relations. This can be specifically manifested in interpreters' social action as co-interlocutors, empowerment figures, or in the adoption of a non-neutral stance. Examples are cited from authentic interpreting events to analyze interpreters' power-at-work, focusing on their verbal and non-verbal behaviors, in particular, their positioning and gaze.

Translating and interpreting --- Social aspects. --- #KVHA:Tolken --- #KVHA:Vertaalwetenschap --- Interpreting --- Translation science --- Sociolinguistics --- Tolken --- Vertalen --- sociale aspecten. --- sociologie. --- Sociolinguïstiek --- Vertaalkunde

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Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This “instrumental” model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence can be seen today in elite and popular cultures, in academic institutions and in publishing, in scholarly monographs and in literary journalism, in the most rarefied theoretical discourses and in the most commonly used clichés. Contra Instrumentalism aims to end the dominance of instrumentalism by showing how it grossly oversimplifies translation practice and fosters an illusion of immediate access to source texts. Lawrence Venuti asserts that all translation is an interpretive act that necessarily entails ethical responsibilities and political commitments. Venuti argues that a hermeneutic model offers a more comprehensive and incisive understanding of translation that enables an appreciation of not only the creative and scholarly aspects of what a translator does but also the crucial role translation plays in the cultural and social institutions that shape human life.

Traduction --- Instrumentalisme --- Philosophie --- Philosophie. --- Instrumentalisme. --- Philosophy of science --- Translation science --- Translating and interpreting --- Instrumentalism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Pragmatism --- E-books --- Philosophy.