Course Summary
In this video, Prof. Loredana Polezzi summarises the course. We hope you have enjoyed the past few weeks and thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. You can stay …
Course: Working with Translation: Theory and Practice
Quality in the translation industry: the process
In her extensive study, Joanna Drugan (2013) shows that, in the industry, quality concerns not just the product but also the whole process. In other words, instead of just asking …
Machine translation
In the video you can hear Juliet Haydock, a translator with over thirty years of experience. She mentions how professionals can take advantage of recent advances in machine translation for …
Quality in the translation industry: good enough?
It may be difficult to design a theoretical model for quality measurement but translation quality is constantly judged in today’s translation industry. The industry includes small and large agencies, or …
What is good translation? A summary
This week we’ve covered a lot of ideas on translation quality. In this video, we recapitulate the main points regarding theoretical models and industry standards, as well as specialised translation, …
What makes a good translation?
Welcome to Week 4, the final week of the “Working with translation” course. In the video, Dr Dorota Goluch introduces you to the main themes of this week as we …
Physical spaces and translation summary
This week, we have looked at some of the places where we encounter translation and interpreting, from the pages of books to the streets of our cities, and from multilingual …
Key considerations when dealing with space and translation
In the previous sections we have seen how translation can both use and transform space. These are some of the key considerations which have emerged from our discussion: 1: Type: …
The case of a multilingual rock band
Listen to this interview with Guto Pryce, member of Welsh band Super Furry Animals. He talks about the role of English and Welsh for his and the band’s music, and …
Case 3: Multilingual classes for health professionals
In this video you will hear two specialists in health and health education talk about their experience of working with multilingual groups of students and trainees. They focus on their …
Case 2: Visual and verbal language: Museums and exhibitions
The image below, taken from the catalogue of an exhibition on polyphonic poetry, displays multiple languages: the photograph mixes visual and verbal codes. And the text underneath adds further layers …
Case 5: Access to community services
In this interview child therapist and consultant Lisa Ambrose talks of the need to create a safe space for interviews with victims of abuse. She stresses the importance of effective …
Case 1: Graphic arrangements and translation: the case of parallel text
In this section we are going to look at four distinct contexts in which we often encounter translation and interpreting. We will look at the way in which written texts …
How do we imagine translation?
We often imagine translation as a link between two distinct locations. One of the most common metaphors of translation is that of a bridge connecting two islands, where the islands …
Translation and linguistic landscapes part 2
In this video, Professor Rita Wilson talks about the connection between migration and language. She uses the image of migrants as ‘translated men’, first suggested by the writer Salman Rushdie. …