For many years I’ve been wishing that there was (standardized) glossary of the ‘jargon’ used in translation studies – if possible multilingual – to help non-academics and newcomers to the field to understand the research literature, and also, if they wish, to write about translation using those specialist terms. Continue reading
Registration is now open for the sixteenth edition of the International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis, which will be held just before the biennial IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) conference at Porto University from 4 to 8 July 2017 .
Not sure whether today’s post is really a smile, because languages are precious things… Still, Annamaria Testa’s wit should certainly bring amusement to your Monday in this excellent talk on “itanglese” entitled “From Bello to biutiful: what’s going on with the Italian Language?“.
Testa is a publicity and communications expert and university professor, and the founder of #dilloinitaliano.
I am pleased to pass on a call for papers relating to a special issue of the journal TIS – Translation and Interpreting Studies, entitled “The Ethics of Non-Professional Translation and Interpreting in Public Services and Legal Settings“. The guest editors are Esther Monzó-Nebot, Universitat Jaume I, Spain and Melissa Wallace, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States.
The Bijuralism Group of the Legislative Services Branch, Public Law and Legislative Services Sector, on behalf of the Department of Justice Canada, is seeking comments regarding the Fourth series of proposals to harmonize federal law with the civil law of the Province of Quebec and to amend certain Acts in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law.
All interested members of the public are invited to review these documents and comment on the proposals.
The Department of Justice Canada makes available a very clearly set out 42-page guide to Canada’s System of Justice.
Published in 2015, it provides general information about the origins of the Canadian legal system, updating laws, the Constitution, rights and freedoms, how the courts are organised, civil and criminal cases, the role of the public, and more.
A very British smile today. Ever been irritated by bad punctuation on signage? Then read on… 🙂
By night, an anonymous zealot is correcting “rogue apostrophes” on signs in the town of Bristol, England.
He has even invented an Apostrophiser to reach high places. 🙂
On 21 April 2017, the School of Humanities & Languages at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia will hold its Seventh Annual Legal Interpreting Symposium.
It is a half-day event, entitled “CAUTION: Police and interpreters talking – A dialogue between interpreters and the police“.
The Directorate General Communications of the European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking a translator of German mother tongue for a full-time position (seven-month short-term contract until 31 December 2017) in the Germanic and Finno-Ugric Languages Section of its Language Services Division.
The ECB is also looking for a Principal Translator (on a two-year fixed-term contract), as well as a trainee terminologist, and is offering translation traineeships in Swedish, French, Romanian and European Portuguese.
The Spanish city of Granada is hosting ICIQ3, the Third International Conference on Interpreting Quality from 5 to 7 October 2017.
The event is being held at the University of Granada, Campus de la Salud technology park. Continue reading
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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