Welcome

Welcome to the 2nd HCLS Conference - "Translation, Language Contact, and Multilingual Communication" organized by The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies (HCLS) of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU)!

Wishing you a pleasant and rewarding experience attending our Conference in CityU.

Conference Theme

Overall Theme:

  • Translation, Language Contact, and Multilingual Communication
Sub-themes:
  • The modelling of translation
  • Translation and other forms of communications in contexts of multilinguality
  • Translation as process and translation as product
  • Translation and language contact
  • Specific properties of translations as texts
  • The relationship of translation to other situations of multilingual communication
  • Inter-semiotic translations involving different modalities
  • Contrastive linguistics and translation
  • Foreignizing vs. domesticating translation
  • The translator's (in)visibility
  • Natural language processing and translation
  • Corpus-based Investigations of translation

Dates and Venues

Pre-Conference Institute

Date: 11 and 12 August 2008 (Monday and Tuesday)
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Room P4-910, Lift 1, Floor 4, Purple Zone, Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, HONG KONG

Conference

Date: 13 - 15 August 2008 (Wednesday - Friday)
Time: 08:00 - 18:00
Venue: Lecture Theatre 16, Floor 4, Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, HONG KONG

Important Dates
  • 18 April 2008:
    Deadline for abstract submission
  • 2 May 2008:
    Notification of acceptance
  • 23 May 2008:
    Deadline for advance registration
    (with concession)
Organizer

The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies,
City University of Hong Kong