Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series - Themes in Translation Studies
Translation and knowledge mediation in medical and health settings
We invite proposals dealing with one or more of the following possible tracks and are happy to include papers dealing with translation, technical writing, communication and community interpreting (in a medical context)
1. Knowledge mediation/translation between researchers and health
professionals
2. Knowledge mediation/translation between researchers and patients
3. Knowledge mediation/translation between health professionals and
patients
4. Knowledge mediation/translation between researchers and the general
public
5. Knowledge mediation/translation between health professionals and the
general public
6. Cultural issues in knowledge mediation/translation, such as different
ways of conceptualizing health, disease, pain, risk, safety, etc.
7. Medical knowledge mediation/translation at specific moments of history
8. Heterofunctional/transgeneric translation in medical knowledge
mediation
Guest editors: Vicent Montalt (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) & Mark Shuttleworth (Imperial College, UK)
Deadline for proposals: 10 August 2011
Please send your proposals to
Vicent Montalt,Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain:
montalt@trad.uji.es AND Mark Shuttleworth, Imperial College, UK:
m.shuttleworth@imperial.ac.uk
Posted by The Editors on 7th Jun 2011
in Call for Papers
