An Ergonomic Perspective of Translation

Ehrensberger‐Dow, Maureen

doi:10.1002/9781119241485.ch18

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“…Several stress factors have been identified in the study, including the speaker's fast delivery rate, translation and interpreting rates offered by the Polish Ministry of Justice, non-cooperative translators and interpreters, a sense of responsibility resulting from translating and interpreting legal content, as well as poor organisation and lack of access to legal documentation before an assignment. It was also shown that many sworn translators and interpreters experience fatigue, back pain and eye irritation, which is quite alarming with respect to the ergonomics of their work environment (for a more detailed account of ergonomics in translation, please refer to Ehrensberger-Dow 2017;Ehrensberger-Dow & O'Brien, 2015). Respondents were mainly dissatisfied with the translation and interpreting remuneration rates offered by the Polish Ministry of Justice.…”

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Stress experienced by Polish sworn translators and interpreters

Korpal

2021

Perspectives

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Although there is some existing empirical research on job satisfaction and working conditions of court interpreters, little is known about specific stress factors inherent in the profession of a sworn translator and interpreter. The main aim of this study was to investigate psychological stress among sworn translators and interpreters working in the Polish-English language pair in the Republic of Poland by means of a self-designed online questionnaire. Among the main stress factors identified in the study were: the speaker's delivery rate, translation and interpreting rates, non-cooperative translators and interpreters, sense of responsibility, as well as poor organisation of work. Sworn translators and interpreters were found to experience fatigue, back pain and eye irritation. Task-oriented coping was shown to be a predominant coping style among study respondents. The results of the study may offer a valuable contribution to translation and interpreting studies, stress research, and human factors in court interpreting.

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Stress experienced by Polish sworn translators and interpreters

Korpal

2021

Perspectives

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“…Language services, which we consider a "situated action" where the context of production of the translation is relevant (be it ergonomic peripherals, adequate working conditions, usability of tools or user experience), could be severely affected by these additional pressures. For instance, a translator may have accepted a job in haste for fear that someone else would accept the task before them, not seeing that the deadline is in a couple of hours (due to the current urgency of the industry) and that may lead to an inability to produce good quality, subsequently harming the translator's reputation and possibly leading to loss of a client (Ehrensberger-Dow, 2017;Ehrensberger-Dow & Massey, 2014). In today's gig economy, where digital labour platforms are becoming more frequent and commonplace, we can already start talking about "humans as a service" (Prassl, 2018), saying goodbye to stable working relationships, and facing the risks of being our own bosses in this increasingly crowdsourced environment.…”

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The Language Engineer: A Transversal, Emerging Role for the Automation Age

Briva-Iglesias

O’Brien

2022

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El presente artículo analiza el papel de las traductoras en una industria que evoluciona rápidamente por la digitalización y la automatización, y sugiere las habilidades y competencias que estas deberán adoptar para tener éxito en un futuro (no muy lejano). Esta investigación se basa en una revisión exhaustiva de las oportunidades laborales del mercado laboral actual con técnicas de minado de datos con Python, así como en encuestas recientes que pretenden comprender qué funciones están desempeñando las traductoras en la actualidad. En el mundo globalizado actual, los servicios lingüísticos son mucho más que solo traducir. Proponemos diferentes áreas de especialización que ofrecerán oportunidades laborales de éxito y sostenibles en la era de la automatización al seguir y aplicar las tendencias de la industria de los servicios lingüísticos. Asimismo, analizamos las tendencias del sector y las habilidades y competencias que serán clave en el (no tan lejano) mercado laboral, y proponemos un nuevo perfil profesional, muy técnico y simbiótico con la tecnología: el de ingeniera lingüística. Las ingenieras lingüísticas son personas con los perfiles necesarios para triunfar en la era de la automatización, y serán capaces de ocupar las múltiples posiciones laborales, nuevas y transversales, que aparecerán como resultado de los recientes avances tecnológicos. Numerosos estudios se han centrado en los "beneficios" de la tecnología en términos de aumento de la productividad. Las tendencias actuales del mercado también han dado lugar a estudios que cuestionan la sostenibilidad de la profesión de las traductoras. Sin duda, la tecnología cambia nuestras vidas, pero depende de nosotras que lo haga para bien o para mal. En nuestra relación con la tecnología, podemos resistir, cooperar o reinventarnos. Consideramos que defender una posición ludita solo traerá consecuencias negativas para la profesión y, por ello, proponemos el papel de las ingenieras lingüísticas, que no solo cooperarán con la tecnología y se beneficiarán de ella, sino que verán aumentadas sus habilidades y competencias para satisfacer las exigencias del sector al estar al día de los avances tecnológicos.

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“…Some translators are also satisfied with translation tool technology and find that it has made their work more approachable and real. CAT tools can reduce the time translators spend on working repetitive tasks, but some literary translators discard CAT tools for doing their work (Ehrensberger-Dow, 2017). Besides, translation technology can decrease qualified translator independence and threaten the livelihood of professional translators (Taivalkoski-Shilov, 2019).…”

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Equivalence Levels of Literary Corpus Translation Using a Freeware Analysis Toolkit

Sayogie

Supardi

2021

Buletin Al-Turas

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Machine translation has the potential to make huge contributions to translation industries, but it seems, for now, that machine translation equivalence has led to a crucial point for literary translation by using machine translation because of the problem of the equivalence itself. This paper, therefore, aimed to see the equivalence degree of literary translation resulted by machine translation, i.e., freeware toolkit AntConc 3.5.0 software 2019. The data were collected from English-Indonesian J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix novel by using the software to find the equivalent translation. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively based on the strategy of translation equivalent level proposed by Mona Baker (1992). The analyzed data revealed that the equivalent level of the software mostly occurred in a word level, above word level, and grammatical level. The software was likely difficult to find a textual level and a pragmatic level of translation equivalence because they required a context and still needed human involvement as part of a greater creative project of translation which were not done by the machine translation. After all, Antconc 3.5.0 as Computer Assisted Tool (CAT) brought a huge contribution to translation industry, helped to analyze large corpora particularly to find the degree of translation equivalence in word and above word level.

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An Ergonomic Perspective of Translation

Cited by 21 publications

References 51 publications

Stress experienced by Polish sworn translators and interpreters

Stress experienced by Polish sworn translators and interpreters

The Language Engineer: A Transversal, Emerging Role for the Automation Age

Equivalence Levels of Literary Corpus Translation Using a Freeware Analysis Toolkit

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