Remapping Translation Studies: Towards a Translation Studies Ontology1

Vandepitte, Sonia

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“…Product-oriented studies are generally of a comparative nature, as they tend to investigate both the source and target texts by means, for examples, of contrastive linguistics, contrastive pragma-linguistics, contrastive pragmatics and contrastive discourse analysis (cf. Vandepitte, 2008) or texts produced under different conditions (with, without or with different CAI tool). From a methodological point of view, such studies could profit from a corpus-based approach, for example when comparing interpreted texts with a corpus of comparable, non-interpreted texts, as is now common practice in studies of translation universals and the like (Baker, 1995).…”

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Chapter 7: Computer-assisted Interpreting: Challenges and Future Perspectives

Fantinuoli¹

2017

Trends in E-Tools and Resources for Translators and Interpreters

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During the last decades, information technology has played a central role in the language services industry. Translators and technical writers take advantage of dedicated software to reuse already translated texts, to adhere to a customer-specific corporate language, to grant terminology consistency, and so forth. The final goal is to increase quality and productivity. Even if information technology did not have the same impact on conference interpreting, also the profession is undergoing some changes. Computer-assisted interpreting (CAI) tools have entered the profession only in recent years, but other, more general resources had already influenced the way interpreters work. This is not only challenging the way interpreting is performed, but it may have an impact on the cognitive processes underlying the interpreting task, even on some basic assumptions and theories of interpreting, for example the cognitive load distribution between different tasks during simultaneous interpreting. Yet, the academic debate is starting to take notice of these changes and their implications only now. As a consequence, it almost failed to shed light on and address the challenges that lay ahead: there have been relatively few empirical investigations on the impact of CAI tools; interpreting models have not been adapted accordingly; the didactics of interpreting has received almost no new technologies in their curricula and no proposal has been advanced to increase the quality of CAI tools and to meet interpreters' real needs.

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Section: Investigating Cai Tools: the Challenges That Lie Aheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chapter 7: Computer-assisted Interpreting: Challenges and Future Perspectives

Fantinuoli¹

2017

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“…On sait que le premier essai de la structuration du champ traductologique est dû à James Holmes (1972Holmes ( /1987, avec un titre fameux : « The Name and Nature of Translation Studies », et quelques carences méthodologiques (voir notamment Munday 2001, 10-14). C'est pour y remédier que Sonia Vandepitte (2008) a entrepris de proposer une ontologie, qui permette, disons, une meilleure orientation. Dans ce cadre, cette recherche se situerait à la rubrique « translation profession research ».…”

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De La Traductologie Des États D’âme Et «vice Versa»: Vers Une Étude Des Aspects Psychologiques en Traduction

Froeliger¹

2017

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“…In the context of translation, Cronin (2010: 2) finds that all these changes call into question the central pillars of Holmes' celebrated map of translation studies (1988), which had been the foundations of the discipline until very recently (Vandepitte 2008). This disciplinary approach focused on the notion of medium, with a clear distinction, for example, into theories of translation done by machines or humans:…”

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Developing a Blueprint for a Technology-mediated Approach to Translation Studies

Jiménez

Encinas

2015

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As Austermühl (2001) put it over a decade ago, the use of information and communication technologies is a fait accompli in the lives of today’s translators. Translation Studies (TS) have traditionally contemplated technologies only as supporting tools for translation practice, and translators’ tools have not enjoyed consideration as decisive actors in TS. Hence, their impact has been somehow underrepresented in the discipline. In the light of well-established translation paradigms (linguistic, functional, cognitive, sociological), we analyze the role played by technology. Most TS approaches are artifactual, this meaning that a rather simplistic and outdated distinction is made between translator minds and the tools they use. This paper proposes an instrumental approach to technologies within TS. In this, cohesive and mutual merging between translators and their technologies, both field-specific and generic tools lead us towards a concept that goes beyond purely linguistic or anthropocentric translation notions. A trans-human translation theoretical modeling is proposed to revisit TS paradigms in the context of the Information Society era. The trans-human translation closes the loop initiated by the fragmentation and dehumanization of first translation technologies, and envisages a stimulating future for translators, where they will use technological and social extensions in a creative and critical way.Comme Austermühl (2001) l’a mentionné il y a plus d’une décennie, l’utilisation des technologies de l’information et de la communication est un fait accompli dans la vie actuelle des traducteurs. La traductologie a traditionnellement envisagé les technologies comme étant seulement des outils de soutien dans la pratique de la traduction, et les outils des traducteurs n’ont pas bénéficié de considération à titre d’acteurs décisifs de ce domaine. C’est pourquoi leur impact, d’une certaine façon, a été sous représenté dans cette discipline. Nous analysons le rôle joué par la technologie selon plusieurs paradigmes de traduction bien établis (linguistique, fonctionnel, cognitif, sociologique). La plupart des approches et des études en traduction font une distinction, plutôt simpliste et périmée, entre les esprits des traducteurs et les outils qu’ils utilisent. Cet article propose une approche instrumentale des technologies en matière de traductologie. En cela, le fusionnement cohésif et mutuel entre les traducteurs et leurs outils de technologie, spécifiques à un domaine ou génériques, nous mène vers un concept qui dépasse les notions purement linguistiques ou anthropocentriques de la traduction. Un modèle théorique de transhumanisation de la traduction est proposé afin de revisiter des paradigmes traductologiques dans l’ère de la société de l’information. La transhumanisation de la traduction ferme la boucle lancée par la fragmentation et la déshumanisation des premières technologies de traduction, et envisage un futur stimulant, dans lequel les traducteurs emploieront des prolongements technologiques et sociaux d’une ma...

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Remapping Translation Studies: Towards a Translation Studies Ontology1

Cited by 39 publications

References 17 publications

Chapter 7: Computer-assisted Interpreting: Challenges and Future Perspectives

Chapter 7: Computer-assisted Interpreting: Challenges and Future Perspectives

De La Traductologie Des États D’âme Et «vice Versa»: Vers Une Étude Des Aspects Psychologiques en Traduction

Developing a Blueprint for a Technology-mediated Approach to Translation Studies

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