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Geneva, Switzerland, 2009 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

XXXIV ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The World in Crisis - And the Language Industry?

13-14 NOVEMBER 2009
Geneva, Switzerland
First Announcement and Call for Papers

The financial crisis which broke out in late 2008 has developed into a global economic crisis affecting world production and services alike. The conference will analyse how far this crisis has an impact on the language industry, particularly on translation and related fields including language training, terminology, language resources and how language professionals can cope with the new situation.

The conference is organized jointly by the International Association Language and Business and the Swiss Association of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters, under the auspices of FIT Europe

Subtopics

(1) The language industry in crisis?

(2) The language of the (economic) crisis
(3) Economic translation today
(4) Economy in turmoil = linguistic turmoil?
(5) Optimisation of language resources

Target groups

The organisers of this symposium cordially invite communication specialists from business, the language industry and from language and translation management as well as

Scientists and specialists from such different disciplines as business sciences, economics, marketing, translation sciences, languages and cultural studies

Language and communication trainers
Technical writers, translators/interpreters, terminologists

Interested fellow specialists.

Proposals for papers for the symposium accompanied by a brief abstract (max. one standard page) and a brief biography of yourself, including contact data, should be submitted by 31 May 2009 to:

Manfred Schmitz, IALB Secretary
c/o Intertext Fremdsprachendienst e.G.
Greifswalder Str. 5
D-10405 Berlin

E-Mail: manfred.schmitz@intertext.de
Fax: +49 30 42101702

Organisers

International Association Language and Business

Swiss Association of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters (ASTTI)
Under the auspices of: FIT Europe

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