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Exploring Creativity in Translation across Cultures / Créativité et traduction à travers les cultures Edited by Emine Bogenç Demirel, Mikaela Cordisco, Emilia Di Martino, Jean-Yves Le Disez, Fabio Regattin, Winibert Segers About this book: The volume offers a rich overview of research in the field of translation conducted by scholars from different countries working with the English-French language pair. Creativity […]

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JTU-PNU Peer Presentations of Research Students was held on 28 June, 2018 at the Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 17 PhD students in Translation Studies from Shanghai Jiao Tong University presented and Pusan National University (South Korea) presented their research findings and answered questions from peers and penal members. Presentations during […]

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Translation Quality Assessment Edited by Joss Moorkens, Sheila Castilho and Stephen Doherty About this book: This is the first volume that brings together research and practice from academic and industry settings and a combination of human and machine translation evaluation. Its comprehensive collection of papers by leading experts in human and machine translation quality and evaluation who situate current developments […]

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New Translation Funding for Arabic Literature from the Sheikh Zayed Book Award by Hannah JohnsonApril 9, 2018 This year, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award is offering translation funding for literary and children’s titles that have won the award, with the goal of increasing the readership for Arabic books. Translation funding is available for literary and children’s titles that have won the […]

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A member of Jiao Tong Baker Centre, Dang Li’s chapter entitled ‘Ethnography in Audiovisual Translation Studies’ appeared in Luis Pérez-González (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, Routledge. Li, Dang (2018) ‘Ethnography in Audiovisual Translation Studies’, in Luis Pérez-González (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, Routledge.  

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Martha Cheung Award for the Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies The Award is established in honour of the late Professor Martha Cheung (1953-2013), formerly Chair Professor of Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University. Professor Cheung was an internationally renowned scholar whose work on Chinese discourse on translation made […]

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  Two Projects from the School of Foreign Languages at SJTU Won the 2017 ‘Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China’ Two projects from the School of Foreign Languages at SJTU have won the 2017 ‘Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China’. A total of eight from SJTU have successfully secured the research grant, […]

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