Investigating Real Work Situations in Translation Agencies. Work Content and Its Components

Kuznik, Anna; Verd, Joan Miquel

doi:10.7146/hjlcb.v23i44.97263

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“…The translation industry at large is characterized by a high degree of subcontracting or outsourcing of the actual translation work (see Kuznik and Verd 2010). For example, the most recent report by the Common Sense Advisory (DePalma et al 2015) predicted that the market for outsourced language services and related technogologies would reach over USD 38 billion in 2015.…”

Section: Organization Of Translation and Interpreting Workmentioning

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Dimitrova

Ehrensberger‐Dow

2018

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Section: Organization Of Translation and Interpreting Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Despite a few notable exceptionse.g., Kuznik and Verd's (2010) application of a model of factors constituting workload, or Kuznik's (2016a) combined sociology of work and organisational ergonomics frameworkthe study of translation work practices still rarely borrows from sociological approaches to work, even though its research object does constitute a classic sociological and organisational development domain. This may be because translation or translation-related tasks were for a long time predominantly conceptualised less as work and more as (non-) professional practices (for a sociological approach to profession, see Monzó 2006;Tyulenev 2015).…”

Section: Researching Translation Practice In the Field: Theoretical Fmentioning

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Translation practice in the field

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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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“…Cependant, dans la plupart des cas, la traduction constitue une activité externalisée et dès lors physiquement absente de cette entité (Kuznik, 2010 : 261, 340-347, 426-429), d'où sa position résolument paradoxale (Gouadec, 2007 ;Kuznik, 2010 : 440). La sous-traitance en de longues chaînes de sous-traitants consécutifs ajoute à son tour une tâche très importante aux processus de production du service, à savoir la gestion de la soustraitance (Kuznik & Verd, 2010). Cadre conceptuel et méthodologique 40 Pour répondre à cette question, nous avons commencé par situer ce nouvel objet d'étude, à savoir le contenu du travail entendu comme l'ensemble des activités réellement effectuées à un poste de travail, dans la discipline traductologique, en le rattachant au processus organisationnel de prestation de la traduction, celui-ci étant la concrétisation du processus de communication (Mayoral, 2001 : 48-49 ;voir aussi Kuznik, 2008 : 369-371).…”

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“…(2) dans une perspective productive, en tant qu'étapes d'un processus de travail et de production de service ; et (3) dans une perspective socioprofessionnelle, en tant que composantes propres à des postes de travail concrets (Kuznik, 2008 : 374-375 (Kuznik & Verd, 2010), activités effectuées à l'aide d'un ordinateur (révision, gestion terminologique, gestion de la messagerie électronique, entre autres) ou sur support papier (révision, terminologie, par exemple) et en interaction avec d'autres employés du bureau de traduction (réunions de travail, fêtes, vie sociale ; Kuznik, 2010), implication directe dans le processus de production et d'échanges économiques plus large (vente d'une machine dans le secteur alimentaire, par exemple) qui permet au traducteur d'avoir une vision globale de son activité de traduction proprement dite (Kuznik, 2016).…”

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Investigating Real Work Situations in Translation Agencies. Work Content and Its Components

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

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