[ecrea] Call for Papers: Tell and Show - A Collection of Essays on Media and Translation

Call for Papers

Tell and Show:
A Collection of Essays on Media and Translation

Additional proposals are sought for a forthcoming collection on Media and
Translation (prospective title: Tell and Show: A Collection of Essays on
Media and Translation).

Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on
Media and Translation. In fact, there are those who believe that so much has
been published in this field that any further publications are superfluous.
But if one views Media and Translation as anything ranging from film and
television drama to news-casting, commercials, video games, web-pages and
electronic street signs, it would seem that research in Media and
Translation has barely scratched the surface. Moreover, the research in this
field is shared largely by scholars in Communication and Translation
Studies, often without knowledge of each other or access to their respective
methods of scholarship. This collection will attempt to bring such scholars
together and create a context for a theoretical discussion of the entire
emerging field of Media and Translation, with a preference for theoretical
work (rather than case studies) on translation and communications of various
forms, and through various media.

Some topics to be addressed are:
.	Translation, communication and globalization
.	Translation for local and global television
.	News translation
.	The dramatic function of translation
.	Translation and commercials
.	Media interpreting
.	Subtitling for the deaf, audio description and sign language
.	Internet translation (translation and the web: Google, IKEA,
Wikipedia, etc.)
.	Media, censorship and translation
.	Localization
.	Computer games and translation

This project is already at an advanced stage of organization, with some
wonderful interdisciplinary, collaborative, and theoretical work at hand,
and more on its way. At this stage, a few (three or four) additional
chapters are sought to complete the collection.

Please send (by email) a proposal of 350 words and a short (one paragraph)
biography to:

Dr. Dror Abend-David
Lecturer, Dept. of Languages
Literatures and Cultures
University of Florida
301 Pugh Hall
PO Box 115565
Gainesville, Fl. 32611-5565, USA

email:(d.abend.1 /at/ alumni.nyu.edu)


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