The effect of translator training on interference and difficulty

Malkiel, Brenda

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“…Our results are in agreement with the results of similar studies by Shojaee and Sahragard (2012), Farahzad (2010), Malkiel's (2006), Saridakis and Kostoupolou's (2003). Our results are also in agreement with the results reported by the committee on cultural psychiatry group for advancement of psychiatry (2002), Dongfeng and Dan (1999) and Albustan (1993).…”

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“…For instance, Malkiel's (2006) study revealed that higher-quality of translations and better performance of translators is related to their training and experience. In their study, Shojaee and Sahragard (2012) found that there is a positive correlation between being a risk-taker and the quality of translation among BA Translation Studies students.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Translators’ Academic Experience on Their Translation Quality

Varzande¹,

Jadidi²

2015

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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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The Impact of Translators’ Academic Experience on Their Translation Quality

Varzande¹,

Jadidi²

2015

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“…Researchers and scholars consider this type of interference as one of the most evident (Debyser, 1982;Thorovsky, 2009). Lexical interference is caused by a number of factors, including the phenomenon of false friends (Kussmaul, 1995;Malkiel, 2006), polysemy (Lennon, 2008), borrowings (Bloomfield, 1933;Humbley, 1974;Newmark, 1988), and other reasons, related to misunderstanding of a concept, and/or inadequate use of reference materials (Hopkinson, 2007). Phraseological interference is often interpreted as a loan translation.…”

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Interference challenge to translation quality in multilingual legislation

Stepanova¹

2019

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The current importance of the topic under study stems from the role of international treaties that establish security and protection of human rights. Moreover, within the UNO agenda 2030 for sustainable development, child rights are central. Thus, the task of quality translation comes to the forefront in multilingual communication that is often affected by language interference. The linguistic relevance of the research is supported by the fact that the works looking at interference of foreign language into native language in translation of legal domain are practically nonexistent. Due to the above, the paper aims at investigating this phenomenon in legal discourse on child rights. The leading approach to the study rests on the qualitative methodology and combines theoretical and empirical investigation. The latter integrates contextual analysis, comparative and contrastive methods allowing to identify the channels and nature of language transfer. A statistical method of analysis contributes to the quantitative assessment of interference. The research materials include the English and Russian versions of the Council of Europe Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The choice is determined by the fact that it is one of the major documents on child rights protection that has not been subject to language or translation analysis so far. The research findings describe channels and types of errors provoked by interference in multilingual communication on child rights. The results provide instruments to predict and avoid such errors in the course of drafting multilingual legislation and its interpretation within domestic language legal culture.

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“…The crosslinguistic phenomenon of faux amis has been extensively studied in different fields of language research, such as translation (Granger and Swallow 1988, Venuti 2002, Malkiel 2006, Ruiz Mezcua 2008, lexicography (Hill 1982, Cuenca Villarejo 1987, Prado 2001, Postigo Pinazo, 2007, and second language acquisition research (Lengeling 1995, Frutos Martínez 2001, Wagner 2004, Chacón Beltrán 2006. Faux amis (Koessler and Derocquigny 1928), also referred to as "false friends" (Zethsen 2004, Chacón Beltrán 2006 or "deceptive cognates" (Lado 1957, Batchelor andOfford 2000) …”

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Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Vandelanotte¹,

Davidse²,

Gentens³

2014

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The progressive in South Asian and Southeast Asian varieties of English -147 mapping areal homogeneity and heterogeneity Marco Schilk and Marc Hammel Neology: from word to register 173 Antoinette Renouf viii Contents English amid(st) and among(st): a contrastive approach based on 207 Norwegian and Swedish translation Thomas Egan and Gudrun Rawoens Cohesive conjunctions in English and German: systemic contrasts and 229 textual differences Kerstin Kunz and Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Part 3. Second language acquisition "Anyway, the point I'm making is": lexicogrammatical relevance 265 marking in lectures Katrien L. B. Deroey Faux amis in speech and writing: a corpus-based study of English 293 false friends in the production of Spanish students M. Luisa Roca-Varela Automated classification of unexpected uses of this and that in a learner 309 corpus of English Thomas Gaillat, Pascale Sébillot and Nicolas Ballier Crude contours: a pilot study into the feasibility of charting student 325 speakers' proficiency †Monique van der Haagen, Pieter de Haan and Rina de Vries A longitudinal study of the syntactic development of very advanced 335 Dutch EFL writing Pieter de Haan and †Monique van der Haagen Vandelanotte (University of Namur). They were very pleased that Caroline Gentens and Ditte Kimps joined the editorial team.While naturally we accept the final responsibility for the choices made, we were very lucky in being guided by the conscientious advice of the following external referees: den Branden. We much appreciated their careful comments and suggestions for revision, which benefited both the papers selected for this volume and those eventually recommended to other publication outlets.Without the contributors, there obviously would not shave been a volume. We thank them for developing the studies they presented at ICAME 33 with an eye to the general coherence of this volume and for the good spirit in which the whole enterprise was conducted.Rodopi helped along the project with their usual friendly efficiency. Eric Van Broekhuizen was always ready to offer help and useful advice and we are very grateful to the series editors Christian Mair, Charles Meyer and Nelleke Oostdijk for having accepted the volume for publication in the series Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics.For generous financial support of the conference, thanks are due to the Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO), the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and the Leuven International Doctoral School for the Humanities and Social Sciences. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the GOAproject 12/007, for linguists, but for sociologists and historians as well. The corpus will be available in different formats, focusing not only on textual transcription, but also on visual representations and meta-textual information. Beal and Sen set out the main lines of a project to develop a corpus of eighteenth-century English phonology, based on eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and other texts dealing with pronunciation. ...

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The effect of translator training on interference and difficulty

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The Impact of Translators’ Academic Experience on Their Translation Quality

The Impact of Translators’ Academic Experience on Their Translation Quality

Interference challenge to translation quality in multilingual legislation

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

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