ALC 2008:9:1

Across Languages and Cultures

A Multidisciplinary Journal for Translation and Interpreting Studies

Volume 9 – Issue 1 – June 2008

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Empirical Research

1–The translation process – interplay between literal rendering and a search for sense — Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit & Jukka MäkisaloSini Immonen

Translation in the Arabic World

2–Translating autoantonymy in the Qur’an — Aladdin Al-Kharabsheh

3–Lost in translation: An intertextual study of personal proper-name allusions — Hossein Dastjerdi & Sara Sahebhonar

Interpreting Research

4–A profession in the making: Self-descriptions of liaison interpreters in Estonia — Kristina Mullamaa

Translation and Ideology in Canada

5–A translation studies oriented integrative approach to Canadian political discourse — Mátyás Bánhegyi

6–Translating idiomatically into French in Quebec: Caught in the crossfire — Jean-Guy Mboudjeke

Conference Report

7–“Why Translation Studies Matters” — 5th EST Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3–5 September 2007 — Pál Heltai

8–“Current Trends in Terminology” — International Conference on Terminology — Berzsenyi Dániel Főiskola Szombathely, Hungary, 9–10 November 2007 — Orsolya CzékmánMárta FischerEszter Papp

Book Review

9–H.K. Riikonen, Urpo Kovala, Pekka Kujamäki & Outi Paloposki (eds.): Suomennoskirjallisuuden historia 1–2 — [History of literary translation into Finnish, volumes 1–2] Helsinki: SKS [Finnish Literature Society]. 2007, 697 + 625 pp, ISBN 978-951-746-889-3 — Ritva Leppihalme

10–Norbert Bachleitner & Michaela Wolf (eds) Soziologie der literarischen Übersetzung
Special issue of Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL), Vol. 29. No. 2. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. 2004, 255pp. ISSN 0340-4528 — Theo Hermans\

11–Ghelly V. Chernov: Inference and Anticipation in Simultaneous Interpreting. A probability-prediction model — Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2004, 266 pp. ISBN 90 272 1663 0 — Mária Bakti

Books Received

12–The editors of ACROSS welcome review copies of publications and also appreciate candidates for reviewing incoming copies — 9(1), pp. 157–160Empirical Research

Across Languages and Cultures publishes original articles and reviews on all sub-disciplines of Translation and Interpreting (T/I) Studies: general T/I theory, descriptive T/I studies and applied T/I studies. Special emphasis is laid on the questions of multilingualism, language policy and translation policy. Publications on new research methods and models are encouraged. Publishes book reviews, news, announcements and advertisements.
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