Julie McDonough Dolmaya | July 15, 2010
Well, it’s now more than a month since I got back from Concordia, and I’ve only just gotten around to writing about a really interesting presentation I attended while I was away. I put the blame squarely on house-hunting and the subsequent packing, moving and unpacking, which all required more time than I was [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | June 8, 2010
I recently returned from Montreal, where I was attending the 23rd annual conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies. Because this year’s theme was methodology, Daniel Gile and Andrew Chesterman were the keynote speakers. In their presentations, they reminded us of the methodological problems that can arise in academic research and offered some solutions [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | May 8, 2010
Now that classes have finished and marks have been submitted, I can finally get back to the research I left behind last summer: analyzing translation blogs to determine:
Which blogs are the most influential
How blogs are used by translators (are bloggers anonymous or do they identify themselves and provide links to their professional services?)
What type of [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | March 12, 2010
I’ve just received confirmation that my paper for the 2010 CATS congress at Concordia University has been accepted. I’ll be presenting my research on translator blogs. Here’s the abstract of what I plan to talk about:
Are translators offended when a for-profit company seeks volunteers to translate its website? Should translators lower their rates in [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | November 7, 2009
I’ve just returned from Ottawa, from a meeting with the rest of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies executive council on Friday. This summer, I became the secretary of the association, much to the delight of the president, who will no longer have to chair the meeting while also trying to write the minutes. Over [...]