Opening of international translation conference at CityU

We would like to invite you to cover the following event:

The 2nd HCLS Conference, “Translation, Language Contact and Multilingual Communication”, has been organised by The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies (HCLS) of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Plenary speakers at the conference include renowned international scholars in the field of translation, and come from as far afield as Australia, Brazil and Germany, as well as CityU’s Dr Zhu Chunshen, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics.

The conference will run until 15 August. Members of the press are invited to attend the opening of the conference and are welcome to seek comment about the content of the plenary speaker sessions. Details of the conference are available at http://www.hallidaycentre.cityu.edu.hk/hcls-c2-2008/

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