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Publication details [#2955]

West, Thomas L., ed. 2000. Proceedings of the 41st annual conference of the American Translators Association. Alexandria: ATA (American Translators Association). 500 pp.
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
conferences=translation conferences
Main ISBN
0914175084

Abstract

The proceedings of the annual conference are published in the fall of each year. Papers address many subjects from literature to translation and computers.
Source : K. Foelen

Articles in this volume

Rock, John. Influence of South American Indian languages on Brazilian Portuguese: a journey of discovery, beauty and passion.
Schiaffino, Riccardo. How not to get hired. 3–10
Bohannon, Cecelia C., Terry Hanlen and Shuckran Kamal. The accreditation program and examination: an informational presentation. 11–24
Tang, Man-Yee. Office 2000 and multilingual support. 25–28
Ingram, Jim, Yuanxi Ma and Elizabeth A. Tu. Defining accuracy and faithfulness: an analysis of translation of long sentences. 29–38
Chen, Dave. Chinese convention. 39–52
Ren, Youliang. Meaning-based conversion between traditional and simplified Chinese versions. 53–60
Coates, Carrol F. Respecting the Hauka: translating Ahamadou Kourouma's En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages. 61–68
Müller-Grant, Barbara. The challenges of working as a court interpreter in Germany. 83–94
Hine Jr., Jonathan T. Taking care of business: the non-language side of freelancing. 95–104
Rock, John. Does the freelance translator need a new model? 105–112
Geertsen, Danyune, Holly Mikkelson and Nataly Romero. Testing for certification: a holistic approach to an interpreter certification program at language line services. 113–134
Chen, Sheng-Jie. Memory enhancement in interpreter training: a southwestern U.S. study. 135–144
Stone, Irena V. New concepts for telephone interpreting. 145–156
Giambruno-Day Miguélez, Cynthia. Techniques for self-directed interpreter training or what can I do at home to become a better interpreter? 157–162
Schneider, Diane P. The role of interpreters in addressing hate/bias incidents. 163–172
Nozaki, Ted. How to speed up Japanese patent abstract translation. 173–182
Apter, Ronny and Mark Herman. Using multiple translations to re-create another time and place. 183–190
Landers, Clifford E. In the house of the fortunate Buddhas: flirting with porn? 191–196
Cipria, Alicia B. Dealing with linguistic and cultural identity in literary translation: analysis of the Spanish translation of How the García girls lost their accent by Julia Alvarez. 197–206
French, Oliver. Using resources for medical translations: a physician's view. 207–212
Blumenthal, Michael A. What medical translators and interpreters need to know about diabetes mellitus. 213–224
Berra de Iubatti, María C. and Rosana Paola Strobietto. Trajections: an applied linguistic method for the Spanish translation of a medical nomenclature. 225–232
Russell-Bitting, Alexandra. International economics for Portuguese translators. 233–260
Landers, Clifford E. Translating Jô Soares: does comedy transfer across cultures? 261–266
Kelly, Arlene M. Towards a working vocabulary for legal and court work in Portuguese. 267–294
Silversteyn, Boris M. The dictionary: my friend, my enemy. 317–328
Moskowitz, André. Topics in Spanish lexical dialectology: kid's stuff. 329–366
Anderson, Kirk. Trans-libation: Spanish-English wine terminology from the vineyard to the glass. 381–390
Russell-Bitting, Alexandra. International economics for Spanish translators. 391–420
Bye, Eric A. Beyond dictionaries. 421–426
Schreiber, Mordecai. Getting more out of dictionaries. 427–434
Hine Jr., Jonathan T. Translator education in the USA: introductory translation classrooms in three Mid-Atlantic universities. 435–466
Lynch, Clove, Ellen S. Slavitz and Mylène Vialard. Translating web sites: danger and opportunity: an introduction to web site translation. 467–488
Halsted, David G. and Beatriz Uraca. The translator as web consultant: XML and online translating. 489–493