A quantitative enquiry into the translator’s job-related happiness: Does visibility correlate with happiness?

Liu, Fung Ming Christy

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“…It has to be stressed, however, that despite the considerable interest obtained by the social reality in which translation functions, too little attention is devoted to such phenomena as, for example, the level of job satisfaction among particular groups of translators or interpreters (Rodriguez-Castro 2015: 31). Although some research has already been carried out on this concept (see Choi 2007;Hubscher-Davidson 2017;Lee 2017;Liu 2013;Rodriguez-Castro 2016;Swartz 2006;Tryuk 2007), and it clearly shows that translators and interpreters are rather satisfied with their job (Dam & Zethsen 2016), no previous study has investigated the level of job satisfaction among sworn translators. It has to be noted, however, that within Polish translational literature there have been a few attempts to present the situation of Polish sworn translators (for more see Kubacki 2012 and the quarterly Biuletyn TEPIS).…”

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Polish Sworn Translators’ Attitudes Towards the Job they Perform – Results Obtained from a Job Satisfaction Survey

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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The main aim of this paper is to present the results of a job satisfaction survey conducted on a group of Polish sworn translators (translating from English into Polish and from Polish into English). The first part of this paper discusses the state of the art of sociology of translation as well as providing a definition of job satisfaction. Then, the author of the paper moves on to the presentation of the research procedure: the methodology, the limitations of the study, the results and a discussion about the findings. This study presents evidence suggesting that Polish sworn translators experience a high level of job satisfaction. Nevertheless, due to research limitations, further studies on this topic are recommended before the issue of job satisfaction among sworn translators is more clearly understood.

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Polish Sworn Translators’ Attitudes Towards the Job they Perform – Results Obtained from a Job Satisfaction Survey

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“…Were the former translators less happy with their translation work than the current translators were three years ago? I used the data for several indices, including job-related happiness index (normally distributed), visibility index (not normally distributed), satisfaction index (normally distributed) and positive affective index (normally distributed), collected in Wave 1 to try to find answers to these questions (for the calculation of the various indices, see Liu [2013b]). The results of a two-tailed Mann-Whitney U test and an independent t-test suggest that there are no statistically significant differences in the visibility index (p=0.206) and satisfaction index (p=0.080) between the former translators and the current translators although the visibility level of the current translators is on average higher (22.2%) than that of the former translators.…”

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“…Papers from this conference were published in two special back-to-back issues of Translation andInterpreting Studies (Rakefet andShlesinger, 2009, 2010). Some scholars have attempted to employ a sociological paradigm and have used empirical research methods to carry out their investigations (see Dam and Korning Zethsen, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014Katan, 2009aKatan, , 2009bKatan, , 2011Liu, 2011Liu, , 2013aLiu, and 2013bSelaSheffy, 2005SelaSheffy, , 2006SelaSheffy, , 2008SelaSheffy, , 2010SelaSheffy, , 2011SelaSheffy, , 2014Wolf, 2006). However, most of the empirical studies rely on a cross-sectional methodology, which takes a snapshot of a population at one specific time.…”

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“…In [2009][2010], an empirical study combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches was conducted to investigate the relationship between translators' visibility and their job-related happiness (Liu, 2011(Liu, , 2013a(Liu, , 2013b. In the study, the visibility of translators refers to situations in which translators can directly communicate with clients and end-users.…”

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“…In addition, it has statistically been proven that the more visible the translator, the happier they are. Detailed discussions about translators' visibility and their job-related happiness can be found in Meta (Liu, 2013a) and Across Languages and Cultures (Liu, 2013b) respectively.…”

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Longitudinal Study of Translators in Greater China

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2017

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Abstract:In Translation Studies, most of the empirical studies on translators in society rely on a cross-sectional methodology, which takes a snapshot of a population at one specific time. However, giving the evolving nature of translation work, translators would experience changes from time to time. Therefore, follow-up studies of translators are paramount because this approach allows Translation Studies researchers to explain the changes that translators may experience over time. This article presents findings from a longitudinal study which examines translators' possible changes in their occupation, visibility between clients and end-users, capital received and job-related happiness over a three-year period. The analysis is based on 92 Chinese translators in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 2009-2010 survey data (Wave 1) and 2012-14 survey data (Wave 2). It is found that freelance translators are less happy than other current translators. Some social variables such as age, level of education, region in which the translator lives, the translator's major field of study and the appearance of the translator's name on translations are found not related to their decision to leave the field. What are found to be significantly related include sex, years of translation experience, and time spent working on translation assignments. It is also found that the turnover rate for female translators is higher than that for male translators. In addition, those who abandon the work of translation are mostly inexperienced translators. Keywords: Longitudinal method; translators' visibility; translators' job-related happiness; translators in Greater China. Resumen: En Estudios de Traducción, la mayoría de los estudios empíricos sobre los traductores en la sociedad, se basan en una metodología transversal, la cual recoge una muestra de una población en un momento dado. Sin embargo, debido a la naturaleza evolutiva del trabajo de traducción, los traductores experimentan cambios temporales. En consecuencia, estudios que se planteen hacer un seguimiento de la trayectoria de los traductores son fundamentales, ya que este enfoque permite a los investigadores de Estudios de Traducción explicar los cambios que se producen en los traductores con el paso del tiempo. Es presente artículo recoge los resultados de un estudio longitudinal que examina los posibles cambios en los traductores debidos a su tipo de ocupación, visibilidad entre los clientes y usuarios finales, el capital obtenido y la satisfacción derivada de su trabajo, durante un periodo de tres años. El análisis se basa en los datos . Se ha descubierto que los traductores independientes están menos satisfechos que otros traductores en activo. Algunas variables sociológicas como la edad, el nivel de educación, la región en la que el traductor vive, el campo principal de especialización y el hecho de que aparezca el nombre del traductor en las traducciones no están relacionados con su decisión de abandonar esta profesión. Lo que sí resulta decisivo es el sexo, los años de experi...

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Translation practice in the field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes

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2019

Benjamins Current Topics

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that permits insights into the diversity and complexity of translation practice, aspects that cannot really be reconstructed in a laboratory setting.While the specific theoretical foundations of the individual articles in this volume might differ and range from situated cognition and ergonomics to practice theory, they all nonetheless agree on the situatedness of translation, interpreting and related processes, one of the main assumptions of our research. Of particular interest are the processes at the workplace, the actions of those involvedas embedded in a specific environmentand how such workplaces develop over time, i.e., the process dimension of translation work. Accordingly, it seems appropriate to begin with an overview of the notion of the translation/interpreting process in Translation Studies before moving on to introduce and discuss those elements of workplace research that are of relevance for this Special Issue and for contemporary translation studies research. The derivation and diversification of translation process researchInterest in TPR has continued to grow since the first pioneering works emerged in the 1980s (e.g., Gerloff 1986;Krings 1986;Lörscher 1987). The study of translation as a process complements research that focuses on source/target text relationships or the cultural and literary systems of which they form part. TPR applies empirically sound cognitive science approaches to observe and describe translation processes in order to identify patterns in the behaviour of translators/interpreters under different conditions and draw inferences on their cognitive processes. Theories and models initially from the cognitive sciences, cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in particular are used to describe and explain the connections in this behaviour and obtain a better understanding of translation processes (e.g., Risku 2010;Muñoz 2010a;Martín 2013). TPR looks at factors related to people, tasks and (work) settings, studying, for example, whether bilingual laypersons translate differently to advanced translation students (Hansen 2003); whether and how creativity shows itself in the translation process (Kußmaul 2000;Bayer-Hohenwarter 2009); how contextual information influences translation (Rydning and Lachaud 2010); how reading and writing processes are distributed during translation (Dragsted 2010); or the special challenges faced in sight translation (Shreve, Lacruz, and Angelone 2010).Substantial parts of translation/interpreting processes take place in the brain or, in the case of translation, on the screen and are therefore difficult to observe with the naked eye. Thus, TPR uses various data collection methods (e.g., introspection, EEG measurement, think-aloud protocols, retrospective self-reflection, screen recording, keystroke logging, pupillometry and eye tracking), often in combination, to increase the reliability of the results (cf. triangulation; Alves 2003; Lachaud 2011). In the case of interpreting, separating the process from the

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A quantitative enquiry into the translator’s job-related happiness: Does visibility correlate with happiness?

Cited by 20 publications

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Polish Sworn Translators’ Attitudes Towards the Job they Perform – Results Obtained from a Job Satisfaction Survey

Polish Sworn Translators’ Attitudes Towards the Job they Perform – Results Obtained from a Job Satisfaction Survey

Longitudinal Study of Translators in Greater China

Translation practice in the field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes

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