Bogazici University

Tower of Babel, by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1595 An international conference on retranslation Boğaziçi University November 19-20, 2015 The conference follows the success of our first Retranslation in Context conference held at Boğaziçi University on December 12-13, 2013. Retranslation in Context I was conceived during the “Bibliographical and Analytical Research Project on Retranslations in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Societies” carried out at Boğaziçi University (2011-2016). Since the first conference, the research project has advanced in a number of different directions.

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 27-28 November 2014 The standard definitions of "translation" commonly refer to transfer processes from one language into another or to the end product of such a transfer. However, translation is not only an interlingual and intercultural phenomenon. Translation also occurs within the "same" linguistic and cultural domain. One example of intralingual translation is the numerous varieties of expert-to-layperson communication where the sophisticated language of the text needs to be simplified for the layperson.