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The hronicle C A Publication of the American Translators Association VOLUME XXX • NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2001 Inside: Resources Division Reports Register Today for this Exciting Opportunity from ATA ATA Financial Translation Conference New for 2001! New York University Law School • New York, New York May 18-20, 2001 Taught by financial translation experts from around the world. Hosted by NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Translation Studies Program Name: ___________________________________________________________________________________ Last First Middle ATA Membership #: ______________________ or NYU T&I Student/Faculty I.D. #: _____________________ Employer/School Affiliation: __________________________________________________________________ (Only list employer or school affiliation if you want it to appear on your badge. Students should give their school.) Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ City: _________________________________________ State/Province: ______________________________ Zip/Postal Code: ________________ Country: ___________________ Telephone Numbers: Primary: ___________________________ Secondary: ___________________________ Fax: ___________________________ Email:____________________________________________________ Please indicate the primary and secondary language pairs you are interested in. If there is insufficient reg- istration or speaker availability in your primary pair, you will be offered a full refund. Please note that the first day features general sessions in English. The second and third days will be language specific. Preferred pair: Source language: _________________ Target language: _________________ Alternate pair: Source language: _________________ Target language: _________________ Conference Registration Fees: ATA Member/NYU Student/Faculty* Non-Member Early Bird (by February 28) $195 $295 ________ After February 28 $275 $375 ________ On-site (after May 11) $375 $475 ________ Form of Payment: [ ] Check/Money Order [ ] Credit Card Total Payment $ ________ *Individuals who join ATA when registering for this conference qualify for the ATA member registration fee. (Please contact ATA or visit the ATA Website, www.atanet.org, for a membership application.) Cancellations received in writing by May 11, 2001 are eligible for a refund. Refunds will not be honored after May 11. A $25 administrative fee will be applied to all refunds except for the cancellation of a given language pair. Charge my: ❏ VISA ❏ MasterCard ❏ American Express ❏ Discover Card No. ____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/ Expiration Date:________________Signature:__________________________ Please make your check or money order payable to ATA, in U.S. funds through a U.S. bank, writing in the memo section Financial Translation Conference, and return it with this form to American Translators Association • 225 Reinekers Lane, Suite 590 • Alexandria, VA 22314 OR, if paying by credit card, fax your completed registration form to: (703) 683-6122 (Please do not mail this form if you are faxing it to ATA.) ____ Please check here if you require special accessibility or assistance. (Attach a sheet with your requirements.) Please visit the ATA Website, www.atanet.org, and click on “Conferences” for more information. Photocopy registration form and return to ATA. The Features Chronicle Message from the Chinese Language Division Administrator A Publication of the American Translators Association By Frank Y. Mou . 16 Volume XXX, Number 1 The newly established Chinese Language Division needs your help January 2001 and ideas. The Nordics, Orlando and Beyond By Edith Matteson . 17 The Nordic Division already has a full schedule of events planned for the new year, including the WisCONFERENCE. German Language Division Report By Dorothee Racette . 19 An overview of our activities during the past year, as well as a pre- view of what is to come. The Japanese Language Division Activities at the 41st ATA Annual Conference By Izumi Suzuki . 21 The JLD did well, is doing well, and the future looks good. The Role of Interpreters in Addressing Hate/Bias Incidents By P. Diane Schneider . 22 Hate/bias incidents, when they occur, impact a larger segment of the community than the specific victim(s) targeted. It is crucial that interpreters know how to recognize and respond to such incidents, and how to respond to the unique challenges of interpreting when Focus on Resources this subject is involved. Division Reports Translating Texts, Interpreting Cultures By Lynn Visson . 28 Photo: Falling snowflakes Throughout history, the role of the simultaneous interpreter has been to translate both words and cultures. Cultural differences between Monthly Columns Russian and English, for example, are evident in conference situa- tions, diplomatic negotiations, and in the cross-cultural microcosms From the Executive Director . 7 of Russian-American marriages, where communication requires a From the President . 8 daily crossing of linguistic and cultural boundaries. The interpreter From the President-Elect . 10 who is equally sensitive to both language and culture will succeed in From the Treasurer . 11 rendering the speaker’s true intent and meaning. ATA Activities . 14 Upcoming Conferences and How Can We Incorporate More of the Real World into Translator Training? By Daniel Linder . 33 Educational Programs . 15 Dictionary Reviews . 68 In theory, translator trainers prepare students to seek work and to Harrap’s Shorter Dictionary meet the challenges of real-world professional translation. In prac- English-French / French-English, tice, however, we often prepare our students inadequately. Since 6th Edition 2000. these challenges may threaten the quality of our students’subsequent Reviewed by Françoise Herrmann professional translation, we should harness them as didactic tools for The Translation Inquirer . .70 Compiled by John Decker the classroom. Accreditation Forum . 72 Getting More Out of Dictionaries Humor and Translation . 75 By Mordecai Schreiber . 37 By Mark Herman Professional translators have always found dictionaries insufficient ATA Chapters, Affiliated Groups, and sources for answering all questions arising from translation from one Other Groups . 76 language into another. Lexicography in the U.S., as well as world- Classified Ads . 78 wide, continues to be a problem area. Today, we face an additional Accreditation Exam Sites . 79 question of whether dictionaries on disk and online will replace the New Active and Corresponding Members . 79 traditional printed ones. Using examples such as the forthcoming Display Advertising Index . 79 Dictionary of Medicine (French/English) and the recent Multicul- tural Spanish Dictionary, the question of the limitations of diction- aries in general is discussed. The article will also examine the prac- tical aspects of dictionaries designed specifically for translators. 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