The 12th International Conference on Translation, Malaysia
The Malaysian Translators Association (MTA) will be organising the 12th International Conference on Translation (PPA) in Batu Feringgi, Penang (Malaysia) from 18-20 August 2009.
The biennial international conference was held for the first time in 1984 through the initiatives of the Malaysian Translators Association (MTA) and Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) with the awareness that translation is crucial in knowledge transfer. It aims to nurture the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience, and simultaneously encourage cooperation between scholars, language experts, translators, writers, publishers, editors, educators and students internationally. The conference also aims to explore the latest information, theories and techniques in the field of translation in order to enhance translation quality as a whole.
The conference will focus on, but is not limited to the following topics:
- Translation and Media/Multimedia
- Interpreting and Internationalization
- Machine Translation
- Translation and Localisation
- Sociolinguistics and Translation
- Translation of Literature
- Translation and Tourism (Health Tourism and Sport Tourism)
- Translation and Education
- Translation Evaluation
- Translation and its Sustainability (Service & Technology)
- Translation in Publishing
- Translation in Languages of Limited Diffusion
- Translator and Visibility
The conference programme is available here.
For further information about the conference, please visit the Universiti Sains Malaysia’s website.
