Abstract

This publication consists of the five papers presented at the XVII Conference of Translation Studies (XVII kääntämisentutkimuksen päivät), hosted by the Nordic Philology unit of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu.

The conference plenary paper, which deals with linguistic and pictorial translating, was presented by a lecturer of the English Section, Department of Translation Studies at the University of Tampere. The other contributors came from the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature (University of Helsinki), the Department of Languages (University of Vaasa), and the Nordic Philology unit (University of Oulu). Most of the themes focus on theoretical and practical problems in translating.