Event
Translation Studies and its Digital Publishing Landscape: JoSTrans as a case study
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Wed 31 Jan 18
14:00 - 16:00
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Colchester Campus
NTC.1.03
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Event speaker
Professor Lucile Desblache
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Event type
Lectures, talks and seminars
Spring Term 2018 - Translation Activities, Seminars and Workshops -
Event organiser
Language and Linguistics, Department of
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Contact details
Victoria Mead lalopc@essex.ac.uk
• How is the fact that web readers are now web users (listeners, viewers, interactive contributors as well as readers) affecting publications in translation?
• How are we, translation scholars, responding to this change? Online publishing is not only growing; recent research shows that web users are attracted to specialised sites rather than large portals.
• How does this manifest in Translation Studies? Traditionally, academic publications have been scholarly rather than vocationally oriented. Does the move toward electronic publication change this balance?
• How are we, translation scholars, responding to this change? Online publishing is not only growing; recent research shows that web users are attracted to specialised sites rather than large portals.
• How does this manifest in Translation Studies? Traditionally, academic publications have been scholarly rather than vocationally oriented. Does the move toward electronic publication change this balance?
We shall attempt to answer these questions discussing a range of current electronic publications in Translation Studies, with particular focus on JoSTrans, The Journal of Specialised Translation.
