Time: 21st-23RD of November 2024
Venue: online
To be allowed into these hallowed halls, to be lifted from their squalid upbringings into the dazzling heights of the Royal Institute of Translation! (R.F. Kuang – Babel)
Starting from the translator’s role as mediator between two cultures, as a negotiator of meaning for a reading audience that speaks a target language, as an emblematic figure and possessor of cultural capital, the workshop proposes a re-evaluation of the concept of visibility in translation (Venuti, 1995) extending the discussion on visibility for the domains of terminology, lexicology and lexicography. We, therefore, invite contributions that would draw a link between the concept of visibility, which has had an increasingly strong impact in the last decade, and language, ideology, philological tradition, and cultural capital. We suggest a debate regarding the extent to which the distinctive features which mark the presence of the translator / terminologist / lexicologist in the text remodel/reshape the reader’s perception and invite a re-reading and a possible re-evaluation of the text in question.
This year we are focusing on juvenile literature in translation. One of the places where a translator’s work has to be reinforced by the skills of a lexicologist is children’s fiction. This type of text is particularly challenging because it is rich in coinages and puns, as well as other types of expressive language. It is one of the reasons why children’s books have been translated, re-translated and re-re-translated numerous times in a culture (it is the case of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, of Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, etc.).
- In what way does (in)visibility intersect with the necessity to re-translate?
- How do a young readership and their parents select a target text?
- In what way does a translator shine through the target text, whether it is a read-aloud or a read-alone kind of text?
- These are questions that are worth pondering and answering in our workshop.
The workshop will take place in online format between the 21st and 23rd of November, on the Google Meet platform.
Organizers:
Professor Nadina Vișan, Dr. Daria Protopopescu, Dr. Mihaela Zamfirescu, Dr. Eliana Ionoaia (English Department) as part of The Annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest.
Submission deadline: 15 October 2024
Extended deadline: 30 October 2024
Notification of acceptance: 5 November 2024
Paper proposals (250-word texts, including references) in English and can be sent directly to the following email address: ctitc@lls.unibuc.ro
The conference fee is 200 RON (teaching staff) / 100 RON PhD students and it will be paid in the account of the FLLS Alumni Association. Payment details will be made available upon presentation acceptance.
Scientific committee:
Prof. dr. Titela Vîlceanu, University of Craiova, RSEAS chair
Prof. dr. Daniel Dejica-Cartiș, Polytechnic University of Timișoara
Prof. dr. Attila Imre, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca/Târgu Mureș
Prof. dr. Nadina Vișan, University of Bucharest
Dr. Daria Protopopescu, University of Bucharest
Dr. Mihaela Zamfirescu, University of Bucharest
Dr. Eliana Ionoaia, University of Bucharest
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- Dollerup, C. (2003) ‘Translation for Reading Aloud.’ META 48 (1-2), 81-103.
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(Quelle: Aussendung)