The translationstudiesforfree material seems to have been of interest to readers, so I thought I would add some more resources.
One
fast-growing type of resource is recorded lectures, both audio and
video. Anthony Pym has some 91 recorded lectures and interviews with
eminent researchers at his Youtube channel. The Fondazione San Pellegrino also has a youtube channel
with a number of lectures and interviews linked with the annual Misano
Adriatico translation school including very interesting lectures by
Lawrence Venuti and Anne Coldiron. Recordings of the annual Sebald
Lecture on literature in translation are available on the website of the British Centre for Literary Translation. There is a lecture about translation by Umberto Eco (in Italian) here.
A
number of translation scholars have repositories of publications on
sites such as academia.edu, or on their own university websites (see
e.g. Theo Hermans' website
which has a number of fascinating papers on open access (though I found
the UCL eprints site a bit clunky). Hermans is one of the contributors
to a wonderful-looking 2013 lecture series, also at UCL, entitled
'Translation in History'. The lectures are
downloadable as pdfs.
Other useful resources include the Translation Studies Portal. It has a Chinese site, and one for the Arab world, broadly speaking. The latter site includes a number of recorded lectures which can be accessed here. The TSP is not to be confused with the Routledge Translation Studies Portal, which has lots of resources relating to the Routledge catalogue of translation studies books and journals.
There
are lots of talks and interviews featuring translators also on the web.
Lydia Davis is interviewed on her translation of Proust here. Anthea Bell, one of the UK's best-known translators, can be seen discussing her practice with one of her source authors here.
An
increasingly popular event format is the 'Translation Slam' where two
translators get together to discuss their approach to a text. Examples
can be found here (Adam Talib and Randa Aboubakr on translating an extract from Yusuf Abu Rayya's novel Ashiq
al-hayy) and here (Frank Wynne and Ros Schwartz on translating an extract from L'enquête by Philippe Claudel).
Lastly, one source of free books about translation is the EU bookshop. EU publications can be downloaded without charge in pdf format. They include the useful guide How to Write Clearly, available in all the languages of the member states, and the recent report by Pym, Grin, Sfreddo and Chan The Status of the Translation Profession in the European Union
(ignore the actual description of this volume on the website which
seems to have been pasted from a completely different book). A keyword
search for 'translation' brings up lots of other interesting-looking
things.
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Thursday, 3 October 2013
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Stephen Fry on language
An impassioned plea for more fun and less pedantry in language use, by the living national treasure Stephen Fry:
Something to bear in mind the next time you catch yourself tsk-ing over an apostrophe. Unless, of course, it's in one of your own translations...
Something to bear in mind the next time you catch yourself tsk-ing over an apostrophe. Unless, of course, it's in one of your own translations...
Friday, 6 August 2010
liaison interpreting and its pitfalls (P.S. language identification request!)
Many thanks to Alan for two nice clips that show us in very different ways how not to interpret. From an old episode of Candid Camera, a conversation between two apparently engaged people has to be conducted bilingually in English and Greek via an interpreter, and goes predictably horribly wrong:
The second video is a how-to, how-not-to educational video from a charity interpreting and translation network illustrating the pitfalls of using ad hoc interpreters (in this case a family member) vs. using a qualified and trained interpreter. The video is cut slightly short, and suffers from unfortunately cheesy introductory music, but I thought it was well made and useful.
One thing that I thought was odd in this video was that they never actually mentioned what language was being interpreted - maybe this was a strategic decision, but I am still curious. Brownie points to anyone who can confirm what language the couple and their interpreter are speaking...
The second video is a how-to, how-not-to educational video from a charity interpreting and translation network illustrating the pitfalls of using ad hoc interpreters (in this case a family member) vs. using a qualified and trained interpreter. The video is cut slightly short, and suffers from unfortunately cheesy introductory music, but I thought it was well made and useful.
One thing that I thought was odd in this video was that they never actually mentioned what language was being interpreted - maybe this was a strategic decision, but I am still curious. Brownie points to anyone who can confirm what language the couple and their interpreter are speaking...
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