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Filipino Department faculty join translation confab

Three faculty members of the Filipino Department were participants in the 10th International Conference on Translation held from August 2 to 4 at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Dr. Raquel Sison-Buban, Dr. Janet Tauro-Batuigas, and Dr. Dolores Taylan presented their respective researches in the conference.

Sison-Buban read her paper on soap operas in the Philippines titled “Concept Translation: The Chinovelas in the Philippines.” Tauro-Batuigas, chair of the Filipino Department, discussed her paper on machine translation, “Synchronization of Theory and Practice in Dubbing and Subtitling in the Philippines.” Taylan, vice chair of the Department, discussed prevalent issues on translation in the Philippines in her study “Translating Disciplines in the Philippines: Issues and Alternatives.”

Meanwhile, Armi Zamora-Francia, also from the Filipino Department, presented her paper on women studies titled “Existence and Resistance: The Dimensions of Womanhood in Philippine Society” at the Women’s Worlds 2005 International Multidisciplinary Congress on Women held recently at Seoul, Korea.

DEAL chair presents paper in the US

Dr. Danilo Dayag, chair of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, presented a paper at the 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) at Purdue Unviersity, West Lafayette, Indiana USA on July 21-23. Conference theme was “The Multiple Expressions of World Englishes.”

In his paper, Dayag reported the preliminary findings of his Research Faculty project “Metadiscourse, Argumentation, and Asian Englishes: A Contrastive Rhetoric Approach.”

Retired Full Professor Dr. Ma. Lourdes Bautista also presented a paper in the same conference. Bautista’s paper was “Validating the Putative Features of Philippine English, with Cross-reference to other Englishes.”