Turkish Department Holds Workshops on the Principles of Turkish Translation

Directorate of International Academic Cooperation -

Turkish Department of Allameh Tabatabai University (ATU) held a specialized three-day workshop on the "Principles of Turkish Translation" from 21 to 23 November 2016.

ATUs Turkish Department invited Prof. Lale Akalin, a faculty member at Istanbul University and held a workshop in the Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages. In this workshop, which was well received by students of ATU and Urumiya University, subjects such as principles of translation, dos and donots in translation, mental processing stages in translation, translator's awareness of the source and target languages, differences between translation and interpreting, and the nature and importance of language in translation were discussed. The workshop also expanded on eminent translation-studies theoretician as Gideon Toury and Itamar Even Zohar, as well as the economic, historical, literary, etc., of texts in translation.