Individual Differences and Quality Of Translation: A Personality-Based Perspective

Karimnia, Amin; Mahjubi, Mahsa

doi:10.2478/plc-2013-0003

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“…In agreement with the same token, the influence of aspects of personality on the quality of translation task has been confirmed by numerous studies conducted in the realm of translation studies (e.g. Reiss, 1971Reiss, , 2004Karimnia & Mahjubi, 2013;Kussmaul, 1995;Pourgharib & Dehbandi, 2013;Hubscher-Davidson, 2009. These finding signify the role of translators' personality on the decisions they make in the process of translation, which in turn ultimately affect the quality of the produced translations.…”

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“…It included questions about the translation difficulties, their opinions on enjoyment of the translation, and the like. The questionnaire was designed and applied by Orozco and Albir (2002) and was adopted from Karimnia and Mahjubi (2013).…”

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“…In a project by Karimnia and Mahjubi (2013), the relationship between translation students' personality and the quality of their English-toPersian translations were studied, in terms of different text types. They used the MBTI to determine the personality type of each participant.…”

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Personality Type and Translation Performance of Persian Translator Trainees

Shaki

Khoshsaligheh

2017

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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The study investigated the relationship between the personality typology of a sample of Iranian translation students and their translation quality in terms of expressive, appellative, and informative text types. The study also attempted to identify the personality types that can perform better in English to Persian translation of the three text types. For that purpose, the personality type and the translation quality of the participants was assessed using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test and translation quality assessment (TQA), respectively. The analysis of the data revealed that the personality type of the participants seemed relevant to the translation quality of all the text types. The translation quality of the participants with intuitive and thinking types was significantly better than the sensing type counterparts in translating expressive texts. The participants with intuitive and feeling types also performed better than their counterparts with sensing type in translation of the informative text. Moreover, the participants with intuitive, feeling, and thinking personality types performed more successfully than the participants with sensing type in translation of the appellative text. The findings of the study are discussed in light of the existing research literature.

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Personality Type and Translation Performance of Persian Translator Trainees

Shaki

Khoshsaligheh

2017

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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“…A combination of these individual differences and characteristics may directly influence their translation quality (Shojaee & Sahragard, 2012;Karimnia & Mahjubi, 2013;Shangarffam & Abolsaba, 2009;Dongfeng & Dan, 1999).…”

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The Impact of Translators’ Academic Experience on Their Translation Quality

Varzande¹,

Jadidi²

2015

ELT

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Translators differ from each other in many ways in terms of their knowledge and professional conditions that may directly influence their translation. The present study aimed at investigating the impact of translators' academic experience on their translation quality. Following a causal-comparative study, a sample of 100 male and female professional translators, working in official or non-official translation offices or as freelance translators, were selected using purposive sampling method. The participants were divided into two groups each containing 50 individuals with and without a degree in translation, respectively. The participants were asked to translate a paragraph including 232 words, from Orwell's 1984 novel, to assess their translation quality. To do this, Waddington's model D (2001) was used as the marking system. For data analysis, inferential statistical procedures including independent sample t-test was used in order to investigate the research hypothesis. Results showed that translators' academic experience in translation significantly affects their translation quality. The results also clearly depicted that the translation quality of translators with academic experience was significantly better than that of those without academic experience.

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“…Since the TQA matrix is based on comparing the main concepts of the TQA models of House (1977House ( , 1997House ( , 2015 , Nord (1991Nord ( , 1997Nord ( , 2005, and Colina (2008Colina ( , 2009Colina ( , 2015, providing students with such a matrix prior to the translation process can help them understand not only the concept of translation, but also the requirements of translation quality. In this respect, research (Angelelli, 2009;Colina, 2003;Hague, Melby, & Zheng, 2011;Karimnia & Mahjubi, 2013;Moskal, & Leydens,2000;Tomlinson & Moon, 2013) concluded that assessment tools should not only measure students' levels, but also recognize their progress and guide them to produce a high quality product.…”

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The Application of Functional Linguistic Models for Assessing Quality of Translation: A Descriptive Analytical Study

Madkour

2016

IJEL

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This descriptive analytical study aimed at examining the application of linguistic-based functional approaches in assessing the quality of translation. A number of translation quality assessment models were analyzed to investigate the potential of integrating linguistic theories into translation theories. The problem that the present study tackled was that institutions of translation at higher education, translation organizations, and agencies of translation worldwide face difficulties in evaluating the quality of translation. Using objective criteria, which are based on the variables of quality, is still debated among these shareholders. The rationale of the present study is that adopting functional linguistic approaches can help in understanding the components of the quality of translation in terms of the relationship between translation purposes and functional adequacy. Linguistic functional approaches can determine the relationship between textual adequacy, and translation quality of content. Therefore, the current study followed a nonlinear design, which allowed an intensive description and analysis of three functional models applied in Translation Quality Assessment (TQA), and their effectiveness in assessing the quality of translation. Corpus data was collected from the theories and original works of House, Nord, and Colina, on translation quality assessment. Problems related to discourse analysis, function of the language, text typology, and theories of equivalence were examined. Translation criticism and evaluation including the classification of the functional hierarchy of translation, standards and benchmarks, empirical evidence for the success and limitations of the linguistic functionalist approaches in translation assessment, and competences and performances in translation, were thoroughly investigated. The research recommendations of the current study emphasize a number of issues relevant to translation evaluation. These issues are: (a) the significance of integrating the linguistic functional approaches into the curriculum of translation; (b) the importance of defining the components of solid criteria that can be employed for evaluating the quality of translations; and (c) the necessity of providing an empirical tool that can reveal the strengths and weaknesses of translated works. As such, this research study is a contribution in the field of translation evaluation and criticism as it provides a number of models that can be implemented in translation classrooms or in translation organizations. This study also provides an evaluation matrix, based on the models of TQA that can help translators understand the requirements of translation quality prior to the translation process itself. This research is also among the first studies to illustrate how to implement linguistic functional approaches that can be adopted by translation organizations, academic institutions, and publishing houses, to evaluate professional translations and this will inevitably lead to raising the standards of translati...

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Individual Differences and Quality Of Translation: A Personality-Based Perspective

Cited by 19 publications

References 11 publications

Personality Type and Translation Performance of Persian Translator Trainees

Personality Type and Translation Performance of Persian Translator Trainees

The Impact of Translators’ Academic Experience on Their Translation Quality

The Application of Functional Linguistic Models for Assessing Quality of Translation: A Descriptive Analytical Study

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