{"id":5144,"date":"2014-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:06:32","slug":"814-btb-20141205171612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/814-btb-20141205171612\/","title":{"rendered":"Translation Culture in Hong Kong Talk Series:  Problems of language and culture in translating Hong Kong litigation documents(Co-organised by the School of Translation and Hong Kong Central Library)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"art-article\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;\">6 April 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Translation Culture in Hong Kong Talk Series:  Problems of language and culture in translating Hong Kong litigation documents(Co-organised by the School of Translation and Hong Kong Central Library)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaker:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr SIN King Kui (Adjunct Professor and Special Consultant),<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Elvis LEE (Assistant Professor)&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Venue: Lecture Theatre, Hong Kong Central Library&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This talk discusses some interesting Hong Kong court cases involving disputes over rival translations of litigation document with a view to showing that to resolve such disputes, very often the court must go beyond language and grammar to ascertain the cultural meaning of a text. The clich\u00e9 that understanding a language is understanding its culture becomes a guiding principle for resolving rival translations in litigation. The speaker will demonstrate the use of this guiding principle when introducing the interesting Hong Kong court cases in the talk.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n<div style=\"width:640px;text-align:center;margin:10px;margin-top:0px;float:left;\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/old\/images\/upload\/BTB\/0223831187ed158e78c60405f416046e.jpg\" width=\"630\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:110%;height:40px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:1px ; clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 April 2014 Translation Culture in Hong Kong Talk Series: Problems of language and culture in translating Hong Kong litigation documents(Co-organised by the School of Translation and Hong Kong Central Library) Speaker:&nbsp; Dr SIN King Kui (Adjunct Professor and Special Consultant), Dr Elvis LEE (Assistant Professor)&nbsp; Venue: Lecture Theatre, Hong Kong Central Library&nbsp; This talk [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,111],"tags":[],"topics":[],"month":[266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59475,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions\/59475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}