Nike K. Pokorn
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nike K. Pokorn plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1932-2798 | E-ISSN 1876-2700
Book series
Titles
Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy
Edited by François Grin, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn
[Studies in World Language Problems, 9] 2022. xxvi, 570 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism
Community Interpreting, Translation, and Technology
Edited by Nike K. Pokorn and Christopher D. Mellinger
Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 13:3 (2018) v, 172 pp.
Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Post-Socialist Translation Practices: Ideological struggle in children's literature
Nike K. Pokorn
[Benjamins Translation Library, 103] 2012. viii, 188 pp.
Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
Why Translation Studies Matters
Edited by Daniel Gile, Gyde Hansen and Nike K. Pokorn
[Benjamins Translation Library, 88] 2010. xi, 269 pp.
Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Challenging the Traditional Axioms: Translation into a non-mother tongue
Nike K. Pokorn
[Benjamins Translation Library, 62] 2005. xii, 163 pp.
Subjects Translation Studies
Articles
2023. Translation and diaspora: The role of English literary translations in Slovene émigré periodicals in the US. Target: Online-First Articles
This article revisits Gideon Toury’s (1995, 2012) definition of translation as a fact of the target culture by highlighting the transfer of cultural images through literary translation in the periodicals of a US diaspora in the interwar period between the US Immigration Act of 1924 and the… read more | Article
2022. Chapter 13. Migrants’ attitudes towards community interpreting. Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 257–274
The aim of the chapter is to describe the attitude of different groups of migrants to community interpreting and the role of community interpreting in the inclusion process. The role of public-service translation and interpreting and attitudes towards community interpreting were studied in three… read more | Chapter
2022. Chapter 1. General introduction. Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 3–22
This introductory chapter offers a brief account of the history behind this book, which originates in the MIME project, where ‘MIME’ stands for ‘Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe’. This project, which was funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Innovation and… read more | Chapter
2020. Community interpreters versus intercultural mediators: Is it really all about ethics?. Ethics of Non-Professional Translation and Interpreting, Monzó-Nebot, Esther and Melissa Wallace (eds.), pp. 80–107
This article compares the professional profile of community interpreters to that of a particular group of intercultural mediators who work as non-professional, untrained interpreters, mainly in healthcare settings. Through a textual comparison of 13 deontological documents for community… read more | Article
2018. Community interpreting, translation, and technology. Community Interpreting, Translation, and Technology, Pokorn, Nike K. and Christopher D. Mellinger (eds.), pp. 337–341
Introduction
2018. “It’s so vital to learn Slovene”: Mediation choices by asylum seekers in Slovenia. Mediation Strategies, Pym, Anthony (ed.), pp. 288–307
Short-time migrants, who stay in the host country from one to 12 months, use mediation strategies including lingua francas, public-service interpreting and translation, translation technologies, intercomprehension, and learning the host country’s dominant language. The choices made by asylum… read more | Article
2018. “Do I want to learn a language spoken by two million people?”: Mediation choices by mid-term and long-term migrants. Mediation Strategies, Pym, Anthony (ed.), pp. 308–327
Migrants’ intended length of stay influences their choices between using a lingua franca, language technology, ad-hoc interpreters and translators, intercomprehension, or learning the host country’s dominant language. To study this influence, data were collected through a questionnaire,… read more | Article
2017. Sound symbolism in translation: A case study of character names in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist . Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:1, pp. 137–161
Readers may infer that literary characters are sympathetic or unsympathetic based on the perceived phonetics of character names. Drawing on brand name literature in marketing, we investigate whether Slovene and English speakers can identify sympathetic and unsympathetic characters in Charles… read more | Article
2017. “There is always some spatial limitation”: Spatial positioning and seating arrangement in healthcare interpreting. Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:3, pp. 383–404
The article focuses on the issue of spatial positioning of healthcare interpreters. Contemporary research and guidelines for healthcare interpreters recommend either a triadic position or parallel positioning, or else suggest that the position of the interpreter should be defined primarily by the… read more | Article
2011. Directionality. Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 2, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 37–39
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2010. A world without God: Slovene Bambi. Why Translation Studies Matters, Gile, Daniel, Gyde Hansen and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 57–68
This article presents a small part of a larger research project focussing on the specifics of translated juvenile fiction in a communist country. The reflection of ideology and values of the target society is demonstrated on the Slovene translation of Felix Salten’s Bambi (1950), one of the most… read more | Article
2009. In defence of fuzziness. The Metalanguage of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 135–144
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2009. Pym, Anthony, Miriam Schlesinger & Zuzana Jettmarová, eds. 2006. Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting. Target 21:2, pp. 365–369
Review
2007. In defence of fuzziness. The Metalanguage of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 327–336
In Translation Studies the definitions of the concepts native speaker and mother tongue have been uncritically adopted from linguistics and are regarded as defined and clarified as far as their meaning is concerned, despite the fact that neither linguistics nor translation theory can offer an… read more | Article
2004. Challenging the myth of native speaker competence in translation theory: The results of a questionnaire. Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Copenhagen 2001, Hansen, Gyde, Kirsten Malmkjær and Daniel Gile (eds.), pp. 113–124
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2000. Translation into a non-mother tongue in translation theory. Translation in Context: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Granada 1998, Chesterman, Andrew, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador and Yves Gambier (eds.), pp. 61 ff.
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