Call for participants: Interdisciplinary Conference: “The Voice of the Translator” Literature and Global Culture University of California, Santa Barbara Jan 23-24, 2015 “The Voice of the Translator” Keynote speakers include: Alfred MacAdam is a Professor of Spanish at Barnard College who specializes in twentieth-century Latin-American narrative. He is also a leading translator of Latin-American fiction and has translated novels by Julio Cortázar, Reinaldo Arenas, Alejo Carpentier, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Osvaldo Soriano. From 1984 to 2004, MacAdam was the editor of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, a publication of the Americas Society. This biannual magazine presents work by Latin-American writers not yet known to English-speaking audiences as well as unknown texts by already established writers. Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a writer and theorist of post-colonial literature who was born in Kenya and is currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. A many-sided intellectual, he is a novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic, social activist and translator. In 2006, he published what some consider to be his crowning achievement, The Wizard of the Crow, an English translation of his Gikuyu-language novel Murogi wa Kagogo. In his own words, his main interest is “the problematic interaction between dominant languages and marginalized ones.” Ngugi has written and published prolifically, and his books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Peter Bush is an award-winning literary translator who was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK, and now lives in Barcelona. Previously he was Professor of Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, where he directed the British Centre for Literary Translation. He has been active in defense of the rights of literary translators as Vice-President of the International Translators Federation and was founding editor of the literary translators’ journal, In Other Words. He has translated over fifty novels and screenplays from Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan into English, including the work of Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Goytisolo, and Fernando de Rojas. Dennis Tedlock is the McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research interests center on the indigenous languages, verbal arts, writing systems, and religions of the Western Hemisphere. He has conducted fieldwork among the Koasati of Louisiana, the Zuni of New Mexico, the indigenous Hawaiians of Kaua’i, the Mopán Maya of Belize, and the K’iche’ Maya of Guatemala. His monograph Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life won the PEN Translation Prize in 1986. Peggy McCracken is the Domna C. Stanton Collegiate Professor of French, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. As a literary scholar, she studies the intersections of medieval literature, history, and theory. Her most recent monograph, co-authored with Donald S. Lopez, is entitled In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Christian Saint, and examines the trajectory of a legend from Arabic, to Latin, to Old French, and its transmission and circulation in the medieval global world. The monograph accompanies McCracken’s 2014 translation of Gui de Cambrai’s Barlaam and Josaphat from Old French into English.

Original Text Modern Text Hester Prynne remained constant in her resolve to make known to Mr. Dimmesdale, at whatever risk of present pain or ulterior consequences, the true character of the man who had crept into his intimacy. For several days, however, she vainly sought an opportunity of addressing him in some of the meditative walks which she knew him to be in the habit of taking, along the shores of the peninsula, or on the wooded hills of the neighboring country. There would have been no scandal, indeed, nor peril to the holy whiteness of the clergyman’s good fame, had she visited him in his own study; where many a penitent, ere now, had confessed sins of perhaps as deep a die as the one betokened by the scarlet letter. But, partly that she dreaded the secret or undisguised interference of old Roger Chillingworth, and partly that her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt, and partly that both the minister and she would need the whole wide world to breathe in, while they talked together, —for all these reasons, Hester never thought of meeting him in any narrower privacy than beneath the open sky. Hester Prynne maintained her resolve to reveal to Mr. Dimmesdale the true character of the man who posed as his friend, no matter the consequences. Yet for several days she tried in vain to meet him on one of the long walks he often took along the seashore or in the wooded hills of the surrounding country. She could have visited him in his study, where many before had confessed sins perhaps as deep as that signified by the scarlet letter. There would have been no scandal in such a visit, nor danger to the minister’s reputation. But she feared the interference of old Roger Chillingworth, and her guilty heart imagined that others would be suspicious even where this was impossible. Moreover, she and the minister would need the whole wide world to breathe in when they talked together. For all of these reasons, Hester never thought of meeting him anywhere more confined than under the open sky. At last, while attending in a sick-chamber, whither the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale had been summoned to make a prayer, she learnt that he had gone, the day before, to visit the Apostle Eliot, among his Indian converts. He would probably return, by a certain hour, in the afternoon of the morrow. Betimes, therefore, the next day, Hester took little Pearl, —who was necessarily the companion of all her mother’s expeditions, however inconvenient her presence, —and set forth. At last, while tending to a sick man whom Mr. Dimmesdale had recently visited and prayed over, she learned that Mr. Dimmedale had just gone to visit the Apostle Eliot John Eliot, a Puritan minister who preached to the Massachussett tribe and translated the Bible into their language. the Apostle Eliot...

Gideon Toury Born ( Academic background Alma mater School or tradition Descriptive Translation Studies Academic work Notable works Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond Notable ideas Translation norms, Pseudo-translation Gideon Toury (Hebrew: גדעון טורי‎) (born 1942) is an Israeli translation scholar and professor of Poetics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he holds the M. Bernstein Chair of Translation Theory. Gideon Toury is a pioneer of Descriptive Translation Studies. Biography[edit] Gideon Toury was born in Haifa, the first child of the historian Jacob Toury (1915–2004) and his wife Eve. He completed high school at the Reali School in Haifa in 1960. After high-school, he did his military service in the Nahal Brigade and the paratroopers and as part of his training was sent to a kibbutz, to help out with the farming. He lived there for six years, and he ended up editing the kibbutz journal and organizing cultural events. This experience helped him obtaining a position in a children's journal, where he did his first translations, and later as the editor of the Hebrew version of Popular Photography. He graduated with honors in Hebrew language and Literature at Tel Aviv University in 1970, and completed a PhD Literary Theory at the same university in 1977 on the topic of Translational Norms and Literary Translation into Hebrew, 1930-1945. In 1980 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his translation into Hebrew of C.S. Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He was the first chair professor in CETRA, the research program in Translation Studies created by Jose Lambert in 1989. In 1999, he was awarded honorary membership of the UNESCO Chair of Translation Studies at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2000, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University, London. From 1970 to 1983, he worked with Benjamin Harshav, Itamar Even-Zohar and Menachem Perry in the journal Literature and in 1989 he founded and has been general editor since. He is also General Editor of the Benjamins Translation Library. He was also a member of the boards of The Translator and the Translation Studies Abstracts until he was "unappointed" following the decision of Mona Baker to boycott Israelite academia. Research[edit] His main research is on the theory of translation and descriptive translation studies, with emphasis on the history of the Hebrew translation of the Bible to the present. According to Toury, there are prescriptive and descriptive studies. Prescriptive approaches aim to formulate rules that should be followed by anyone who produces a text of a given type. They are focused on finding the most optimal or correct solutions. Descriptive approaches are about looking into existing texts and describing the rules they seem to follow. He came up with the term "translation norms", as hidden rules followed by the majority discovered by descriptive observation of actual translation. They are not understood as prescriptive rules but as norms specific to a context. Therefore, norms change with time and culture, so translation re-visits the same problem over and over again. Publications[edit] He has published three books, a number of edited volumes and numerous articles, in both English and Hebrew, in the fields of translation theory and comparative literature. His articles have also appeared in translation in many other languages, and he is himself an active translator too (with about 30 books and many articles to his credit). Books in English[edit] In Search of a Theory of Translation. Tel Aviv: The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University. 1980. Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1995. Edited Books[edit] Translation Theory: A Reader.Tel Aviv University: Dyonun. 1980.(English and Hebrew) With Itamar Even-Zohar.Translation Theory and Intercultural RelationsThe Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University. 1981. Translation Across Cultures.New Delhi: Bahri Publications. 1987. Introducing Translation Theory: Selected Articles.Tel Aviv University: Dyonun. 1991. 198 pp. (English and Hebrew)

"Coherently organized and carefully edited, Tudor Translation achieves its double purpose of contextualizing translation and offering new insights on the literary activity of the period. It should be of interest to advanced students and scholars in the fields of translation studies, translation history, and the history of English literature." - Renaissance Quarterly "Not only does Tudor Translation illustrate how the target culture rightfully possesses the source text, inscribing it with its own meanings and interests, but it also emphasizes England's dynamic cultural interaction with both continental Europe and classical antiquity throughout the sixteenth century.Thomas Paynell's favourite terms to describe his translations ('fruitful' and 'profitable' (p. 42)) can certainly be used to recommend Tudor Translation to readers interested in literature, history, and translation studies." - The Modern Language Review

An interpreter works with spoken words in a particular context, conveying a message from one language to another, while translation refers to the activity of transferring a written text from one language to another. Neither is simply replacing the words of one language by those of another, and there are similarities in the intellectual effort required. But there are significant differences between interpreting and translating. The spoken word Interpretation is spoken , translation is written. Interpretation therefore makes use of particular linguistic resources: the original speaker's ideas are transmitted as spoken words, with a particular rhythm and intonation, making use of rhetorical devices and gestures. Time constraints Interpretation is carried out in real time (simultaneously) or very close to it (consecutively). The interpreter has no time to refer to the written resources available to translators. This makes preparation before each assignment all the more essential for an interpreter. Another constraint is the extreme speed at which the interpreter has to receive, understand, manage, and reconstruct information. A translator may translate 2000-3000 words a day, while an interpreter has to keep up with around 150 words a minute. The context of communication In interpretation communication is immediate , involving an interaction between speakers, listeners, and interpreters. In translation there is always a gap between the writing of a text by an author and its reception by the readers. Apart from this, translators often spend a long time working on one text, while interpreters, often working in a team, are faced with people speaking and communicating right now.

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The language spoken in England from roughly 500 to 1100. Old English is one of the Germanic languages derived from a prehistoric Common Germanic, which was originally spoken in southern Scandinavia and the northernmost parts of Germany. Old English is also known as Anglo-Saxon (from the names of two of the Germanic tribes that invaded England during the fifth century). See Examples and Observations, below. Also see: Examples and Observations: The Lord's Prayer in Old English Fæder ure ðu ðe eart on heofenum si ðin nama gehalgod to-becume ðin rice geweorþe ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofenum. Urne ge dæghwamlican hlaf syle us to-deag and forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgifaþ urum gyltendum ane ne gelæde ðu us on costnunge ac alys us of yfle. (The Lord's Prayer ["Our Father"] in Old English) Old English Vocabulary "The extent to which the Anglo-Saxons overwhelmed the native Britons is illustrated in their vocabulary. . . . Old English (the name scholars give to the English of the Anglo-Saxons) contains barely a dozen Celtic words. . . . "It is impossible . . . to write a modern English sentence without using a feast of Anglo-Saxon words. Computer analysis of the language has shown that the 100 most common words in English are all of Anglo-Saxon origin. The basic building blocks of an English sentence-the, is, you and so on-are Anglo-Saxon. Some Old English words like mann, hus and drincan hardly need translation." (R. McCrum et al., The Story of English, 1986) Old English Grammar "Languages which make extensive use of prepositions and auxiliary verbs and depend upon word order to show other relationships are known as analytic languages. Modern English is an analytic, Old English a synthetic language. In its grammar, Old English resembles modern German. Theoretically, the noun and adjective are inflected for four cases in the singular and four in the plural, although the forms are not always distinctive, and in addition the adjective has separate forms for each of the three genders. The inflection of the verb is less elaborate than that of the Latin verb, but there are distinctive endings for the different persons, numbers, tenses, and moods." (A. C. Baugh, A History of the English Language, 1978) Old English and the Alphabet "The success of English was all the more surprising in that it was not really a written language, not at first. The Anglo-Saxons used a runic alphabet, the kind of writing J.R.R. Tolkien recreated for The Lord of the Rings, and one more suitable for stone inscriptions than shopping lists. It took the arrival of Christianity to spread literacy and to produce the letters of an alphabet which, with a very few differences, is still in use today." (Philip Gooden, The Story of English. Quercus, 2009) Differences Between Old English and Modern English "There is no point . . . in playing down the differences between Old and Modern English, for they are obvious at a glance. The rules for spelling Old English were different from the rules for spelling Modern English, and that accounts for some of the difference. But there are more substantial changes as well. The three vowels that appeared in the inflectional endings of Old English words were reduced to one in Middle English, and then most inflectional endings disappeared entirely. Most case distinctions were lost; so were most of the endings added to verbs, even while the verb system became more complex, adding such features as a future tense, a perfect and a pluperfect. While the number of endings was reduced, the order of elements within clauses and sentences became more fixed, so that (for example) it came to sound archaic and awkward to place an object before the verb, as Old English had frequently done." (Peter S. Baker, Introduction to Old English. Wiley-Blackwell, 2003) Celtic Influence on English "In linguistic terms, obvious Celtic influence on English was minimal, except for place- and river-names . . .. Latin influence was much more important, particularly for vocabulary . . .. However, recent work has revived the suggestion that Celtic may have had considerable effect on low-staus, spoken varieties of Old English, effects which only became evident in the morphology and syntax of written English after the Old English period . . .. Advocates of this still controversial approach variously provide some striking evidence of coincidence of forms between Celtic languages and English, a historical framework for contact, parallels from modern creole studies, and-sometimes-the suggestion that Celtic influence has been systematically downplayed because of a lingering Victorian concept of condescending English nationalism." (David Denison and Richard Hogg, "Overview." A History of the English Language, ed. by Hogg and Denison. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008)

The Pharaoh Who Made Peace with his Enemies And the First Peace Treaty in History By Dr. Sameh M. Arab Ramses II", who reigned for 67 years during the 19th dynasty of the 12th century BC, was known as "Ramses the Great". His glories surpassed all other Pharaohs, and Egypt reached an overwhelming state of prosperity during his reign. Not only is he known as one of Egypt's greatest warriors, but also as a peace-maker and for the monuments he left behind all over Egypt. He was the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and hostility. The treaty can still be considered a conclusive model, even when applying todays standards. Who are the Hittites? Their rise and hostility with Egypt: The Hittites were a minor nation in Anatolia, who started to penetrate peacefully east and west through monopolizing political power in the Near East. By the second millennium BC, they became a great power that finally replaced the Babylonian state around 1530 BC. They started challenging the Egyptian Empire during its decline under the reign of Akhen-Aton (18th dynasty). International correspondence from the Asian princes in Palestine and Syria (known as the Amarna Letters) were sent to Akhen-Aton and his court requesting help, and warnings of the Hittites growing influence. The pharaoh unfortunately neglected them and never replied. This resulted in Egypt loosing control over considerable territory in Syria when aggressors, aided by the Hittites, invaded. After the death of Akhen-Aton, and the murder (or death) of his successor Tut-Ankh-Amon, his wife (and Akhen-Atons daughter), "Ankh-Esenpa-Aton", attempted a diplomatic coup with the Hittites. In order to secure her position, she sent a secret letter to their king asking him for a son whom she could marry and make pharaoh. As this offer was astounding, the king suspected treachery and sent an ambassador to test the queens true intentions. In response to her assurance, the king sent his son. However, he was captured and murdered by the Egyptian commander of the army, Horemheb (who later became pharaoh). Hostility between Egypt and the Hittites was further augmented. The war between Egypt and Hatti: With the rise of the 19th dynasty in Egypt, "Seti I" began to reestablish Egypts power in the Near East. Within the first two years of his reign, he was able to restore all of Palestine and the city of Kadesh to Egyptian control. Afterwards, a short-lived truce was signed between the two empires. During the reign of Seti I's son, "Ramses II", advances were made against Syria that reached Kadesh one more. The resulting battle is one of the most famous in Egyptian history. It lasted four days, and initially Ramses was losing the battle. However, his army managed to fight bravely until reinforcements arrived, turning the defeat into victory. The Hittites asked for a cease-fire, and Ramses officers advised him to make peace, saying, "There is no reproach in reconciliation when you make it." After the death of the Hittite king, "Hattusili III" usurped the throne from the legitimate prince who fled to Egypt and was granted political asylum by "Ramses II". Hittite documents record Hattusilis complaint: "When I wrote to him: send me my enemy, he didn't extradite him. Therefore there was anger between me and the King of Egypt." While another round of war was on the horizon, both empires were under pressure with the Hittites were facing the reemerging Assyria in Mesopotamia, and Egypt was facing a threat from the Libyans in the west. Diplomatic negotiations took place for two years until a peace treaty was concluded in the 21st regal year of Ramses reign with "Hattusilis III" in 1280 BC. The peace treaty: Egypts acceptance of a peace treaty that would end the war in Syria meant that there would be no chance to restore Kadesh and Amuru. However in return for this sacrifice, the dispute between the two countries would end with a clear line of demarcation between the Egyptian and the Syrian territories. Moreover, Egypt guaranteed the Syrians the right to use their Phenecian harbors, while the Hittites agreed to allow Egyptians free passage to the north as far as Ugarit without interference. This was a privilege lost for more than a century. Two copies of the treaty were recorded, one in hieroglyph and the other Akaddian, and both still survive. Both copies are identical except for the overture, in which the Egyptian version stated that it was the Hittite king who demanded peace, whereas in the Hittite version, it was Ramses who sent them emissaries. The Egyptian version was recorded on a silver plaque presented by Hattusili to Ramses, then copied on stone at the Karnak and Ramesseum temples. Akaddian Version of Treaty The treaty was composed of 18 articles. After a long introduction recording the kings titles and referring to establishment of good fraternity and peace, one article was included to exclude any further attacks on the other countrys territories: "Reamasesa, the great king, the king of the country of Egypt, shall never attack the country of Hatti to take possession of a part (of this country). And Hattusili, the great king, the king of the country of Hatti, shall never attack the country of Egypt to take possession of a part (of that country). " Hattusili and his Wife, Puduhepa Two articles follow that established the mutual alliance against any foreign attack on either country: "If a foreign enemy marches against the country of Hatti and if Hattusili, the king of the country of Hatti, sends me this message: "Come to my help against him", Reamasesa, the great king, the king of the Egyptian country, has to send his troops and his chariots to kill this enemy and to give satisfaction to the country of Hatti." "If a foreigner marches against the country of Egypt and if Reamasesa, the great king, the king of the country of Egypt, your brother, sends to Hattusili, the king of the country of Hatti, his brother, the following message: "Come to my help against him", then Hattusili, king of the country of Hatti, shall send his troops and his chariots and kill my enemy. " The treaty then included three articles establishing mutual collaboration against any internal mutiny or coups in either country: "If Hattusili, the great king, the king of the country of Hatti, rises in anger against his citizens after they have committed a crime against him and if, for this reason, you send to Reamasesa the great king, the king of the country of Egypt, then Reamasesa has to send his troops and his chariots and these should exterminate all those that he has risen in anger against. " "If Reamasesa, king of the country of Egypt, rises in anger against his citizens after they have committed a wrong against him and by reason of this he sends (a message) to Hattusili, the great king, the king of the country of Hatti, my brother, has to send his troops and his chariots and they have to exterminate all those against whom I have risen in anger. "

We’ve all been talking about 😂, but last year’s Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, vape, is a prime example of our capacity to save ourselves the trouble of inventing new words. Of course we can do it when we have to (think television, aspirin, kryptonite), but we’re also very good at recycling existing words when the need arises. I don’t think many of us use vapour as a verb – meaning to rise up in the form of vapour, to evaporate – on a daily basis, but it’s been around for six centuries, ready to be snapped up. Along comes the electronic cigarette, with its comfortingly realistic waft of smoke, and hey presto, vapour has a new lease of life. It becomes the shorter, snappier vape and is used by anyone standing outside a pub or an office trying to quit. How old is the computer? The computer world is full of examples of this – not least the word computer itself, which has been used to refer to a person since 1613, to a machine since 1869, and to an electronic device since 1946. When you cut and paste in a document, you’re using the words that typesetters used for generations, when the processes involved scissors and glue. The world file comes from the Latin for a string or thread, and early filing was done by hanging your documents (bills, archives, whatever) on a string hung up like a washing line. Cumbersome, perhaps, but it kept things in order. And of course another way of keeping documents in order was to put them in a folder, which was once a piece of cardboard, leather or other casing, folded over to make a container. Now a folder is just an icon sitting on your screen, with no folds in sight. My favourite of all these is disc and its spin-offs. Discs, disks and the athlete’s discus all come from the same Greek root and what they had in common was that they were originally flat, circular plates. But although vinyl discs , compact discs, and digital video discs are obediently flat and circular, some of the disks we slotted into computers in the 1990s were rectangular. We called them floppy disks, to distinguish them from the hard disk in the computer itself, but some of them had a hard plastic casing that meant they weren’t floppy at all. And nowadays if we want a hard copy we print it out on paper – surely the floppiest medium of them all. Magazines In the world of hard copies, magazine is another word that’s had its share of transformations. From the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries a magazine was a storehouse or depot, in which you could store anything you liked – one early citation refers to ‘lampes, oile, mats, and other necessaries’. As time went by the word specialized to become a store for ammunition, arms, or explosives; it could also refer to the goods themselves – the merchandise, ammunition, or explosives that were stored in any of the various sorts of magazine. Parallel to all this, a magazine became a book on a specific subject – a storehouse of information, if you like: we still have this sense in publications such as Cycling Weekly. From these single-subject periodicals came the idea of a magazine on a variety of subjects, aimed at the general reader: as early as 1762 the satirist Oliver Goldsmith was able to write, ‘It is the life and soul of a Magazine never to be long dull upon one subject.’ It’s a lesson that many of today’s magazines, with their copy cut and pasted in bite-sized chunks, have taken on board.