Expertise and Explicitation in the Translation Process

Dimitrova, Birgitta Englund

doi:10.1075/btl.64

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“…An initial assumption among researchers was originally that the professionals, after years of experience, would use more automatized routines, quickly and without high levels of conscious attention (as when we ride a bike or drive a car), and this would explain why they translate faster. The actual studies, however, tend to show that the more experienced translators not only have more automatization but also make clearer shifts between routine tasks and conscious problem-solving (see Krings 1988;Jääskeläinen and Tirkkonen-Condit 1991;Englund Dimitrova 2005). That is, they have a more uneven effort distribution, which might correspond to an unequal distribution of effort between high-risk and low-risk text elements.…”

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Engagement and graduation resources as markers of translator/interpreter positioning

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2015

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Risk analysis can be applied to translation in several ways. One application concerns the specificity of translation, where risk is primarily the probability of the translator losing a translation-specific kind of credibility; it concerns relations between people and can be called 'credibility risk'. A second kind of risk ensues from the translator's uncertainty when making decisions about how to render an item; it involves cognitive processes and can be called 'uncertainty risk'. A third kind of risk then has to do with the way texts are interpreted and used in contexts, where some elements are high-risk because they are key to communicative success, while others are low-risk; this kind of risk applies to the different parts of texts and can be called 'communicative risk'. This third sense of risk then allows for a rationalist model of translators' decisions and effort distributions, positing that high effort should be invested in text items with high communicative risk. Although the differences between these levels of analysis can be confusing and require some careful definitions, the interactions between them offer a rich, non-essentialist view of translation as a social relation, as a product, and as a teachable mode of decision-making.

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Engagement and graduation resources as markers of translator/interpreter positioning

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“…Some aspects of checking or self-revision (Asadi & Séguinot 2005;Englund Dimitrova 2005;Robert 2008) and so-called other revision (Brunette, Gagnon, & Hine 2005;Mossop 2007) have been identified, but again there has been little investigation of translators and revisors at their workplace. If a translation job could be followed from a translator' s to the revisor' s workplace as it is sent to be revised, a realistic picture of professional translation and revision might emerge.…”

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Challenges of translation process research at the workplace

Ehrensberger‐Dow¹

2014

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Translation usually takes place at translators' workplaces, yet much translation process research refers to data collected under controlled conditions such as the classroom or the lab. Pursuant with recent descriptions of translation as a situated activity comes the necessity of investigating that activity where and when it occurs. Many of the methods that have proved useful in the lab have also been applied in the field, and some of the challenges associated with investigating translation at the workplace are common to any kind of empirical translation research. However, certain workplace constraints present special challenges to everyone involved. Some solutions that were developed for a workplace study in Switzerland may prove useful in other investigations and might allow new questions to emerge in this developing field. Kurzreferat

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“…More recently, they have also turned out to be a useful tool for investigating language-pair related translation problems (Englund Dimitrova 2005;Trandem 2005).…”

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Address pronouns as a problem in French–Swedish translation and translation revision

Künzli

2009

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The choice of the appropriate address pronoun is notoriously difficult in spoken and written communication. In French, there are two parallel address systems, with either unmarked T (tu) or V (vous). In Swedish, on the other hand, the T formduhas been the general, usual form since the 1960s. In recent years, V (ni) has started to reappear, at least in service and business situations. The choice of the appropriate address pronoun may thus constitute a problem in French–Swedish translation. Process and product data were collected with 20 trainee translators and professional translators who were asked to translate a text or revise a draft translation respectively, while thinking aloud. The analysis of the Swedish target texts reveals both interindividual variation in the choice of the address pronoun, and intraindividual variation, with several participants showing inconsistent address use. Process data from the think-aloud protocols highlight the effort even experienced translators invest in finding the appropriate address pronoun.

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Expertise and Explicitation in the Translation Process

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Engagement and graduation resources as markers of translator/interpreter positioning

Engagement and graduation resources as markers of translator/interpreter positioning

Challenges of translation process research at the workplace

Address pronouns as a problem in French–Swedish translation and translation revision

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