Volume 7, No. 1 
January 2003



 


 

 

From the Editor
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

 
Index 1997-2003

 
  Translator Profiles
How Not to Become a Translator
by Per Dohler

 
  The Profession
The Bottom Line
by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
It's a Small World
by Steve Vlasta Vitek
Translation: A Market in Crisis?
by Danilo Nogueira

 
Translators Around the World
Análisis de la demanda de traducción en un organismo público en las islas Baleares—El caso de la Dirección General de Economía
Lluch i Dubon, Ferran y Belmonte Juan, Roser
 
 
In Memoriam
Harvie Jordan, 1943-2002
by Patricia Bobeck
David Orpin, 1946-2002
by Geoffrey Pearl

 
  Literary Translation
Language Ambiguity: A Curse and a Blessing
by Cecilia Quiroga-Clare
Translation of Literary Style
by Song Xiaoshu, Cheng Dongming

 
  Translator Education
Translator Training & the Real World: Concrete Suggestions for Bridging the Gap — Part 1
Translator Training & the Real World: Concrete Suggestions for Bridging the Gap — Part 2

 
  Arts & Entertainment
Translation in a Confined Space—Film Sub-titling—Part 2
by Barbara Schwarz

 
  Caught in the Web
Web Surfing for Fun and Profit
by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
Translators’ On-Line Resources
by Gabe Bokor

 
  Translators’ Tools
Close Windows. Open Doors
by Marc Prior
Translators’ Emporium

 
Translators’ Job Market

 
Letters to the Editor

 
Translators’ Events

 
Call for Papers and Editorial Policies
Translation Journal
 
Editor




Give Credit Where Credit Is Due


  by Gabe Bokor

 


ve received numerous letters from readers of the Translation Journal, telling me how wonderful this publication is and how much it has helped them in their professional careers. My response to these letters is that they are directed to the wrong address. The editor's control over the contents of the Journal is limited to refusing publication of papers that for some reason do not belong here and soliciting contributions from those colleagues of whose expertise in a certain field I happen to be aware.

However, the great majority of articles you read in the Translation Journal are submitted spontaneously by people I never met personally or heard about before they contacted me. They receive no fee for their efforts, and some academic institutions still refuse to consider a paper published by an on-line journal on a par with a printed publication for purposes of academic credit.

While all contributors to the Translation Journal deserve our gratitude, we owe special thanks to those who have committed themselves to a regular column: Cathy Flick, whose "Web Surfing for Fun and Profit" pages have grown from the very first issue of the Journal by steady additions to become a treasure trove of sites of interest to translators; Fire Ant (Chris Durban) and Worker Bee (Eugene Seidel), whose thoughtful and witty questions and answers column has drawn praises from both beginners and seasoned professionals, and Chester Claff, whose Organic Nomenclature series helped us navigate through the treacherous waters of organic chemistry for 27 issues, including seven installments in the late Sci-Tech Translation Journal. So if you've learned something useful from an article published in this Journal, please contact its author and express your appreciation for his or her work. Of course, your comments, addressed to the editor, about specific articles may also appear in the Letters to the Editor page regardless of whether or not you agree with the author. The author's e-mail address is provided so that the author-reader relationship may become a two-way street. Take advantage of the way the electronic medium facilitates this two-way communication. If you wish to include the editor in this communication, fine—I'm always interested in your opinion and I'll be glad to answer your questions. But don't forget that the key to the success of this publication is the author and the author-reader relationship.

May all readers and contributors of the Translation Journal enjoy a happy, prosperous, and peaceful New Year!