Past IJET - IJET-30 in Cairns
Speakers
Richard Walker
Richard Walker is a Tokyo-based translator with a career of more than 30 years. While he generally sticks to business, financial, and legal documents, he occasionally ventures into unknown territory. He is a former director of JAT, has given presentations and workshops at IJET, Project, and ATA events, and has been a keynote speaker for the JTF. His latest published translation is Issey Miyake 三宅一生 (Taschen, 2016), a project that he won by not translating all the words.
Sessions
The Arithmetic of Translation: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
Different languages have different ideas about what constitutes a good sentence or paragraph, what should be stated explicitly, what everyone already understands, how information connects, and how logic flows. A polished translation does more than convert words and grammatical...