‘International Colloquium on Contemporary Issues in Language Learning, Teaching, Literature, Media and Culture’, New Delishi, March 15, 2015

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The objective of International colloquium on Contemporary issues in Language Learning, Teaching, Literature, Media and Culture is to provide a platform and to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and Ph.D research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results. The colloquium will also examine various issues and factors that intervene at the interface of Language Learning, Teaching, Literature and Culture.

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‘International Conference on New Trends in 20th – 21st Century English Literature and Language’ (NTELL, 2015), Haryana, March 13-15

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The advent of the 20th century marked a significant paradigm shift in almost all walks of life. The century witnessed extraordinary seminal happenings wherein life itself got redefined. Literature, which has always been the index of various hues of life, too witnessed watershed moments. Peter Childs in Modernism (2007) says “modes of literary discourse blur . . . or overwrite . . . the ones before”. Hence, there is an undeniable inter-relationship between life, literature, thought and language. The ever-changing paradigms of the global world have given literature not only an opportunity to revisit its own theories and practices but chartered a course for new ones to emerge. The issues
of society, culture, politics, gender, etc. need to be oriented and explored with reference to the changing necessities of the society. Moreover, the rise of a global world has made the medium of imitation a complex phenomenon as the linguistic diversities have paved the way for a multilingualism that co-exists with the ever-increasing territory of a single Global Language, English, which in turn comes with its own set of adaptations and “englishes”.

Hence, there is an urgent need to contemplate on the role of literature and language in the light of the cross-cultural paradigm shifts experienced all over the world. In view of the prevailing scenario, the two-day conference NTELL-2015 aims to serve as a forum for eminent scholars and leading academicians from India and abroad to brainstorm these challenges, share their knowledge & experience and generate empirical observations.

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A Review of the book “An Introductory Textbook on Translation”

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Book details:

A Review of the book “An Introductory Textbook on Translation” ISBN: 978-99924-3-413-4

Written by Fatima El-Imam (yusraipek@hotmail.com)

Design & Technical output by Ali Alamin Alhaj

Sudanese Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act 1996

Reviewed by:

By Prof (Dr) Shefali Bakshi 

 Northern Border University, (Women)

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Formerly Dy. Director, Languages, Amity University, Lucknow

 

Review:

‘An Introduction Textbook on Translation’ is a good textbook on translation written by Dr Fatima El-Imam for translation students, amateurs, and newcomers as it claims to do so. This textbook provides basic information and observations – mostly derived from the experiences of the author. Therefore, it attempts to train translation students, amateurs, trainees, and newcomers to develop techniques, strategies, as well as the basic skills that are required for the process of translation.

The full forms of the Abbreviations used have also been detailed right in the beginning. The Appendices are exhaustive with all the necessary information, which will help the novice translator. They serve as samples to be imitated whenever relevant tasks are to be translated from any SL into any different TL.

This book is helpful for people with general interest and for skilled trainers and therefore I got drawn towards it and could not resist writing a review on it.

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