Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 563.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) (18)
Subject: Re: 15.560 monolingualism
[2] From: "Totosy, Steven" <totosy@lib.purdue.edu> (18)
Subject: Re: 15.560 monolingualism
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:08:54 +0100
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 15.560 monolingualism
Willard,
You ask
> In any case, what Domenico sees is both no surprise and the cause of many
> difficulties for us -- especially the isolation from important work, as he
> notes. In my mind the question is, what do we do about it? All well and
> good to say we should take a year or two to learn one or two additional
> languages (which we should), but few of us will, and meanwhile the problem
> continues. Involving other languages in our conferences is impractical for
> other reasons. What do we do about this serious problem?
I suggest
1) Translation be rewarded.
2) Multilingual abstracts become common and best practice (subset of
rewarding translation)
If the money and resources are there, it will happen.
--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:09:32 +0100
From: "Totosy, Steven" <totosy@lib.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: 15.560 monolingualism
with regard to the issue of monolingualism, the recent article by Eric
DICKENS in CLCWeb 4.1 (2002) may be of interest:
"Literary Translation in Britain and Selective Xenophobia" at
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb02-1/dickens02.html>.
Abstract: In his article "Literary Translation in Britain and Selective
Xenophobia," Eric Dickens discusses the fact that fewer
translations of works of contemporary prose, poetry, and essays appear in
Great Britain than perhaps anywhere else in Europe. Dickens
attributes this shortfall to various factors, including poor language
teaching and an indifference to foreign languages in general, but also to a
degree of smugness with regard to literature written in English being "the
best in the world." In his study Dickens covers such areas as the
availability of literary translations in bookshops, the attitudes of
publishers, and the effect of prizes on the selection of authors
translated. He also attempts to demonstrate that postcolonial studies has
remained an exclusively English-language enterprise, rather than becoming a
methodology for global liberation.
with my best regards, steven totosy, editor, CLCWeb at
http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/
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