Nervous Conditions: on translating one of Zimbabwe’s most famous novels into Shona: The publishing journey of Zimbabwean writer and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions wasn’t easy. Yet the novel is today considered by many as one of Africa’s 100 best books of the 20th century and is studied at universities around the world. When she …
Open source tools for translating British to American English: Last Christmas, my wife and I traveled to my hometown of Ft. Pierce, Florida, and frequented a local establishment on the beach. There, we met a couple from The Midlands in the UK. The music was loud and so was the beer, so it was a …
Conference – Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse – a Africa interest event taking place on 2019-10-07 16:00:00 in United Kingdom What is the impact of translation on the diffusion of legal concepts between domains of discourse? Does the translation of legal terminology modify the perception of the corresponding legal phenomena in …