This article attempts to investigate how publishers and translators in Turkey perceive scientific translation/translator in the recent years. Aiming this, an analysis of certain paratexts including titles, front covers, and prefaces (editor's and translato r's) located in 26 professional psychotherapy books translated from English into Turkish between 2014 and 2020 was conducted. In the first step of the analysis regarding covers, the findings highlighted that the covers were mainly designed to serve for guiding the reader about the content of the books. In the similar fashion, the titles underwent minor changes in order not to transmit the meani ng coded in the source language title inaccurately. In terms of the translators, it was observed that nearly all of the books were translated by psychologists and psychiatrists working alone or as teams. The results also indicated these translators are partially visible with their names appearing in the second cover page and only four books have translator prefaces. One of them was prepared by a translator working as a psychiatrist while the other three prefaces about translation were written by psychiatr ists assigned as translation editors. Those prefaces mainly promote and introduce scientific knowledge conveyed in the books. The only aspect mentioned by translator and translation editors regarding translation in the prefaces was way how terms were transferred to the target language. In this context, the study found that the publishers and translators working in the field of scientific translation in recent years tend to follow the mainstream simplistic understanding of scientific translation considering the activity as an informative, faithful, literal, and technical act where professional expertise and transfer of accurate terminology are sufficient.
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