Recent studies have shown that medical translators are increasingly called upon to write patient information materials by reformulating specialised texts, either inter-or intralingually (Muñoz-Miquel 2014, 2016a. This activity requires applying a series of intralingual translation skills, which, however, are rarely addressed in medical translator training programmes. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap by putting forward a proposal designed to help translators acquire these skills. For this purpose, we take as a starting point an empirical study carried out by the GENTT Research Group (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) in which a series of intralingual strategies were used to make real fact sheets for cancer patients more comprehensible and effective for 1. This article is part of the research projects: "Improving interlinguistic and intercultural clinical communication: new methodologies for training healthcare professionals" (2016-2018) (FFI2015-67427-P), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation (MINECO); and "Study of Informed Consent and Medical Consultation in the Spanish and British contexts: new methodologies for improving clinical communication" (2016-2018) (P1·1B2015-73) funded by the University Jaume I (Spain).Recibido / these readers. After describing the strategies, which were validated by the patients, we offer a training proposal aimed at fostering medical translators' skills for dealing with this type of intralingual translation. ResumenSegún estudios recientes, a los traductores médicos se les requiere redactar textos dirigidos a pacientes a partir de la reformulación, ya sea inter o intralingüística, de textos especializados (Muñoz-Miquel 2014, 2016a. Para ello, es necesario aplicar una serie de estrategias de traducción intralingüística, que, sin embargo, apenas se trabajan en los programas de formación traductores médicos. Este artículo pretende contribuir a llenar este vacío mediante una propuesta orientada a su adquisición. Para ello nos basamos en los resultados de un estudio empírico llevado a cabo por el grupo GENTT (Universitat Jaume I) en el que se mejoró la comprensibilidad de una serie de folletos para pacientes oncológicos mediante el uso de estrategias de traducción intralingüística. Tras describir dichas estrategias, que fueron validadas por los pacientes, proponemos una serie de actividades didácticas con el objetivo de fomentar la habilidad de los traductores para enfrentarse a este tipo de traducciones.
This article analyzes the content of Spanish university websites and the processes involved in translating them, with the aim of identifying the challenges internationalisation poses for these institutions and the technical, organisational, and translation-related solutions that have been adopted for managing their multilingual content, particularly in the case of universities in autonomous communities with two official languages. It examines the communicative situation of the multilingual university website (MUW) genre by applying textual genre analysis, with special emphasis on translation and localisation processes. The empirical study of the macrostructures, multilingual content, and strategies used by each university to translate its website is articulated through the notion of a genre ecology, as a complex conglomerate of genres based on distributed cognition and shared authorship. The analysis shows that the processes involved in creating multilingual content require adopting comprehensive translation and localisation strategies, establishing sole decision-makers for translation management and quality control, and providing the necessary resources to ensure the multifunctionality, dynamicity, interactivity, and adaptability we have identified in monolingual university websites. Finally, we offer suggestions for improving the creation, management and control of multilingual content, and define the profiles of the specialized translators required for this type of institutional website.
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