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Dr Piotr Blumczynski

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Dr Piotr Blumczynski

Dr Piotr Blumczynski

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Blumczynski's research interests revolve around broadly understood translation, both its theory and practice. He likes to challenge the popular cliché according to which meanings get “lost in translation” – in his view, the opposite is true: translation, more often than not, creates a surplus of meaning by opening up horizons of possibilities.

Much of his earlier work focussed on linguistic and ideological aspects of translation; recently he has been exploring issues of its axiology, methodology, logic, and ethics.

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  • P.Blumczynski@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 3860

Research Interests

Professor Blumczynski welcomes original and ambitious research proposals:

  • Exploring the shared ground between translation and philosophy
  • Logic
  • Theology
  • Linguistics
  • Literature
  • Ethnography
  • History
  • Science
  • and other areas

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Associate Editor of the journal Translation Studies
  • Latest book: Ubiquitous Translation (Routledge 2016)
    Latest co-edited volume: Translating Values (Palgrave Macmillan 2016)
  • Translating Values: Insights from Multilingual and Multi-ethnic Focus Groups in Northern Ireland
  • (Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series, Northern Ireland Assembly, 15 June 2016)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmRC74oFp9c
  • Visiting Faculty at Nida School of Translation Studies 2018, Misano Adriatico, Italy
    http://www.nidaschool.org/events/nsts-2018

Research students

PhD title Translating for Scientific Publication: Epistemicide and the Scientific Community in Mexico 
Country Mexico 
   
PhD title Translating Knowledge: Subtitling Chinese Lectures for International Audiences
Country China 
   
PhD title Translation Justice in Multilingual Territories: Translation Policy and Immigrant Integration 
Country China 
   
PhD title On Chinese Translators in English translations of The Confucius Analects from a Bourdieusian sociological perspective
Country China 

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD title Towards a New Methodology for Translating the Quran into English: A Hybrid Model 
Country  Jordan 
Current Position Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Zarqa University 
   
PhD title Making Translation Decisions and the Constitution of Translation Knowledge and Anxiety with Special Reference to Joseph Conrad’s Falk: A Naturalistic Retrospective Approach 
Country  Jordan 
Current Position Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Mu’tah University 
   
PhD title The Manipulation of Ideology in the Simultaneous Interpreting of Political Discourse 
Country Iraq 
Current Position Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at University of Basrah 

 


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  • The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice

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