Are all professionals experts?

Jääskeläinen, Riitta

doi:10.1075/ata.xv.12jaa

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“…Some non-professional translators have already been translating for a considerable amount of time, which can count as experience. Scholars have argued that non-professional translators actually improve as translators over time (Barra, 2009;Dwyer, 2012;Massidda, 2012) and also that expertise does not necessarily equal professionalism (Jääskeläinen, 2010).…”

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A reception study on non-professional subtitling: Do audiences notice any difference?

Orrego-Carmona¹

2016

Across Languages and Cultures

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The audience's reluctance to wait for the international release of audiovisual products, coupled with the easy access to audiovisual material and subtitling tools on the Internet, has triggered an increase in the production and use of non-professional subtitling. However, up to now, we know little of how people receive the subtitles and how much they understand when watching products with non-professional subtitles. This paper presents the results of a study that explores the audience reception of subtitled TV series using professional and non-professional subtitling. Fifty-two participants were shown three excerpts from The Big Bang Theory with three subtitle versions: the professional version extracted from the Spanish DVD and two non-professional versions produced by two different nonprofessional subtitling communities. Data were collected through questionnaires, eye-tracking and interviews. The results show that non-professional subtitles do not necessarily affect the audience reception negatively. Further, both eye-tracking and self-reported data yielded interesting insights into audience's reception. Based on the findings, it is possible to say that there are non-professional translations that are as good as their professional counterparts.

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Section: Professional and Non-professional Subtitlingmentioning

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A reception study on non-professional subtitling: Do audiences notice any difference?

Orrego-Carmona¹

2016

Across Languages and Cultures

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“…Danks & Griffin, , pp. 171–172; Jääskeläinen, , p. 221; Jensen, , p. 166; Kim, ), which, in turn, often leads to interference, cumbersome translations, and errors. In contrast, competent translators concentrate on translating ideas (e.g., Rydning & Lachaud, , p. 107).…”

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“…In doing this, they take into account the purpose (Englund Dimitrova, , pp. 14–15) and readers of the translation (e.g., Jääskeläinen, , p. 221), aiming at comprehensible, idiomatic, and readable target texts (Jensen & Jakobsen, , p. 114). They also pay more attention to stylistic factors (see e.g., Englund Dimitrova, , pp.…”

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Problems and Issues in Translating International Educational Achievement Tests

Arffman

2013

Educational Measurement

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The article reviews research and findings on problems and issues faced when translating international academic achievement tests. The purpose is to draw attention to the problems, to help to develop the procedures followed when translating the tests, and to provide suggestions for further research. The problems concentrate on the following: the unique and demanding purpose of the translation task, the partly contradictory task specifications and translation instructions, the indecision as to whether to produce one or two target versions, the indecision as to whether to use one or two source versions, inadequate revision and verification, deficient translator competences, and a lack of time. To solve the problems, the article suggests the following: ensuring that the translation guidelines provide a right, unequivocal, and balanced picture of the purpose of the translation task; ensuring the equivalence of the two source versions; putting more emphasis on revision, and ensuring that the verification is sufficiently thorough; using only qualified translators, providing them with training in test translation, and including also subject matter and testing specialists in the translation teams; and allotting sufficient time to the translation work. However, the main lesson from the review is that more research in the field is badly needed.

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“…As Erik Angelone and Álvaro Marín show, a myriad of expertise indicators have been proposed, including declarative and procedural knowledge, self-regulatory and metacognitive skills, situational and task awareness, adaptive psycho-physiological traits, automaticity, deliberate bundling, self-confidence, and target text orientedness. Whether or not we actually possess adequate criteria to differentiate between novices, professionals and experts in the first place has also been questioned (Jääskeläinen 2010). Angelone and Marín offer a fresh perspective on the notion of expertise by studying how working translators and translation project managers envision and understand it.…”

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Translation practice in the field

Risku

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Milošević

2017

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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. 2. The derivation and diversification of translation process research Interest 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; 2010b; 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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Are all professionals experts?

Cited by 39 publications

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A reception study on non-professional subtitling: Do audiences notice any difference?

A reception study on non-professional subtitling: Do audiences notice any difference?

Problems and Issues in Translating International Educational Achievement Tests

Translation practice in the field

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