USEFUL WEBSITES FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES

(compiled by Cay Dollerup and Henrik Gottlieb)

TRANSLATORS

Societies

EST (European Society for Translation Studies) . http://www.est.utu.fi (with numerous links)

International Federation of Translators . http://www.fit-itf.org

International Association of Conference Interpreters http://aiic.net

European Society for Translation Studies : http://est.utu.fi

Newsletters

TRANSST (an international information clearinghouse edited by Gideon Toury). http://www.spinoza.tau.ac.il/~toury/transst/

Interpreting is well covered (by Daniel Gile) at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/daniel.gile/

There is a list of conferences in translation (compiled by Helge Niska) http://lisa.硯˝olk.su.se/硯łonfindx.htm

Translators

For list of translation scholars see http://aix1.uottowa.ca/~jdelisle/fit_index.htm

Conferences

Information on conferences on Translation Studies

http://www.tolk.su.se/

INTERNET SITES USEFUL FOR TRANSLATION IN GENERAL

(SITES INTERESTING TO DANES ARE LISTED AT THE END).

The list comprises:

1. Dictionaries

2. Lexical and grammatical databases

3. Concordance-like search engines

4. On-line text corpora

5. Newspaper article archives

6. Online literature

7. Instant on-line translation

8. Common translation errors

9. Online encyclopedia

10. Information on countries

11. Newspapers and magazines (selection)

12. Large libraries

13. Book shops (supplement libraries)

14. Terminology bases

15. Translation and Intercultural business translation

1. High-quality dictionaries

Merriam-Webster English Dictionary and Thesaurus : www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

Cambridge Dictionaries Online: http://dictionary.cambridge.org

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary:

www.oup.com/elt/global/products/oald/lookup

Simultaneous access to a collection of online dictionaries: www.dictionary.com

Acronyms: www.acronymfinder.com

2. Lexical and grammatical databases

Ask Oxford Dictionaries: www.askoxford.com/betterwriting

Online Dictionary Database Query: www.dict.org

Word Net: www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

British-American Dictionary : www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dictionary

Common Errors in English: www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

3. Concordance-like search engines

WebCorp: www.webcorp.org.uk/index.html

(presents the hits of other search engines in their sentence-based contexts)

4. Online text corpora (for lexical and contextual searches)

British National Corpus (with 100 million running words):

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

Collins COBUILD Wordbanks Online (with 57 million running words):

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_demo.html

5. Newspaper article archives

Guardian Unlimited Archive Search: www.guardian.co.uk/Archive

New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com (only latest week is free)

UNIVERSITY ACCESS NEEDED:

More than 8 million news articles (some 4 billion running words): www.infomedia.dk

6. Online literature in English

Project Gutenberg (Classics): www.promo.net/pg/index.html

Concordances of Great Books (Classics): www.concordance.com

Chapter Ones (Contemporary): www.denverpost.co m /Stories/0,1002,27,00.html

Chapter Ones (Contemp.) www.nytimes.com/pages/books/chapters/index.html

http://www.amazon.uk.co . Provided you are registered as a purchaser you can browse the full text of more than 100,000 books.

7. Instant online translation

Many home pages as well as search engines now offer a service termed e.g. ć†ˆranslate', ć†ˆranslator', or 憀anguage tools'. Under this service, you find an offer to have a translation done between a number of languages. At present Danish is not among them. The service works well only between English, French and Spanish and gives you an 80 to 90 per cent idea of the contents of the home page in atrocious (but understandable) translation.

8. Common translation errors

Common Errors in English: www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

9. Online encyclopedia

http://www.encyclopedia.com

10. Information on countries

CIA world factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook

11. Newspapers and magazines (a small selection):

English:

http.//www.independent.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk

http://www.timesonline.co.uk

American:

http: www.time.com/time

http://www.newsweek.com

http://www.times.com/times

http://www.washingtonpost.com

Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com

12. Libraries

Royal Library , Denmark : http://www.ku.dk

Library of Congress , US http://www.catalog.loc.gov

French National Library http://catalogue.bnf.fr

British Library http://www.bl.uk

German libraries: http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html

13. Book shops (can often supplement libraries)

Amazon (http: www.amazon.co.uk)

Barnes and Noble http://barnesand

14. Terminology bases

European terminology database: http://europa.eu.int

Multilingual termbanks: www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch.htm

15. Translation, Intercultural communication and Business

T he Delta Intercultural Academy which is a knowledge and learning community for intercultural business and management communication: http://www.dialogin.com .

Õª×Ô£ºhttp://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_561ae48701008q37.html