Mediterranean Editors and Translators

MET is a forum for translators and editors who work mainly into or with English. Through MET we exchange views and experiences on promising practices and keep up with relevant research. Read our mission statement. MET is a member of the Spanish Network of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue Between Cultures.

MET news/announcements

MET Meeting 2008: The METM08 conference and General Assembly will be held in Split, Croatia, on 11-13 September. See the call for participation. For details of previous MET conferences and workshops, go to the Events section.

Spring workshops: details of the 2008 spring workshops are now available.

Membership renewal: to join or renew your membership, use the online membership form.

MET has made a written statement to support the Croatian Medical Journal editors in a serious attack against their editorial independence. The situation was triggered by the editors’ response to a case of serious plagiarism, has been unfolding over the course of 2007, and continues. (See the CMJ’s recent editorial update of the affair and related correspondence in the current issue.) The history can also be traced in an editorial in the British Medical Journal. Briefly, the CMJ editors retracted duplicate publications found after an article in the BMJ alerted them that irregularities in work published by a Croatian author had been identified during research for a systematic review. This issue is relevant to MET members because the present attack on the CMJ’s editorial independence arose after the journal’s appropriate response to an issue of plagiarism — a problem many journal copyeditors, author’s editors, and translators are seeing more often.

Language news/events for the broader Mediterranean area

The following translation and/or editing conferences in the Mediterranean area that may be of interest to MET members have been announced for 2008:

The following applied linguistics conferences have been announced for 2008:

  • AELFE announces its annual language-for-specific-purposes conference, to be held in Murcia, Spain (18-20 September);
  • IULMA, held in Castelló de la Plana, Spain, (9-11 October) presents research on the language of science and technology.
  • InterLAE, in Jaca, Spain (11-13 December), will focus on intercultural aspects of interpersonal relationships in professional and academic writing (referring to the expression of reader-writer relationships, voice and stance in published writing).


 


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