News from the KäTu Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Studies, 20–22 May 2021 Some are sceptical about how relevant academic translation studies can be for the world of work. Isn’t it too theoretical to be useful? Isn’t it too postmodern to be practical? Shouldn’t translation students spend more of their time learning how to run …
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Book review: communication for all
This book could not be more timely. Saavutettava viestintä (Accessible Communication) was published at the end of the year when the world shut down, everything closed, and everyone was expected to move their lives online. But going virtual and digital is easier for some than for others. What if you can’t see or hear (well …
Book review: Making Your Website Work
NEaT member Jenny Zonneveld (BA, MITI) has written a book review for us of Gill Andrews’s Making Your Website Work: 100 Copy & Design Tweaks for Smart Business Owners. Jenny is a business translator and copywriter at TranslaText based in the Netherlands. She’s also an active member of NEaT’s sister society SENSE, former chair and …
What do the media need to know about translation? A NEaT member explains
Journalisti.fi, the online version of the professional Finnish journalism periodical, published an article last month about the translation journalists are forced to do in their work. The context is the vast amount of English-language sources Finnish journalists use every day and the occasional unidiomatic ways journalists render foreign languages in Finnish. The article’s headline asked: …
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