The Translation Profession in Malaysia: The Translator’s Status and SelfPerception

Kang, Myoung Sook; Shunmugam, Krishnavanie

doi:10.17576/gema-2014-1403-12

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“…In another study, Myoung and Shunmugam (2014) investigated the status of translators and the translation profession in Malaysia. They adopted hermeneutic phenomenology as their method of investigation.…”

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Translators’ image in Iranian feature films

Khoshsaligheh

Kafi

Noorani

2018

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Drawing on the significant influence of audiovisual media on people’s conceptions of any given phenomenon, the current qualitative study was an attempt to identify the social dimensions of the Iranian translator, represented in feature films in Iran. Specifically, the study aimed to explore the identity, socioeconomic status and lifestyle of the translator characters depicted in Iranian feature films. Therefore, 16 Iranian films, involving interlingual translation, were selected. The thematic analysis revealed five sociological aspects of the Iranian translator reflected in Iranian films: identity of the translator, socioeconomic status of the translator, lifestyle and attitude of the translator, attitudes of other characters towards the translator, and the role of translation in the turn of events. The results indicated that translators are generally shown as self-disciplined and dissociable individuals who are devoted to their work. The translator characters mostly had minor roles in the plot and turn of events.

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Section: Translator Statusmentioning

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Translators’ image in Iranian feature films

Khoshsaligheh

Kafi

Noorani

2018

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“…Moving to case studies of specific nations, further work has also been conducted in Denmark, where Dam and Zethsen (2008, 2009, 2011 have examined the domestic translation profession in great detail, and have also published on Danish translators and conference interpreters working for the EU institutions (Dam & Zethsen, 2013. Additional research on the status of translators has also been performed in a range of other countries across the globe, including Malaysia (Myoung & Shunmugam, 2014), Israel (Sela-Sheffy, 2016), Finland (Ruokonen & Mäkisalo 2018), Turkey (Yılmaz-Gümüş 2018), Iran (Kafi et al, 2018), and recently in Vietnam (Hoang, 2020). In addition, joint studies exploring the professional status of both translators and interpreters have been conducted in Colombia (Quiroz Herrera et al, 2013) and Zimbabwe (Ndlovu, 2020).…”

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At the Top of the Tree? Surveying Conference Interpreters as an Elite

Hoyte-West

2021

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In spite of the crucial role that conference interpreters play in the world of international affairs and diplomacy, the concept of conference interpreters as an elite has not attracted significant academic interest to date. Building on the author’s previous work (Hoyte-West, 2021), which examined the historical and theoretical aspects of the intersection between conference interpreting and elite sociology, this article reports on the findings of an empirical study with practising conference interpreters. Given increasing interest in sociological aspects of the translational professions, this study is both necessary and timely. In terms of data gathering, snowball sampling was used to disseminate an internet-based survey among professional conference interpreters, with the aim of determining whether conference interpreters viewed themselves as members of an elite. The internet-based survey received 120 responses from freelance, staff, and retired conference interpreters. Using an overwhelmingly quantitative approach, the data was analysed and tabulated, before being subsequently discussed and compared with Khan’s (2012) framework of elite resource areas (political, economic, cultural, social network, and knowledge-based), which had previously been applied to the professional sphere of conference interpreting by the author. As such, it was noted that conference interpreters generally did not view themselves as members of an elite; however, further qualitative research in this area remains both desirable and necessary.

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What do we know about translators’ job satisfaction?

Ruokonen,

Svahn

2024

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This article is an exploratory overview of research on translators’ job satisfaction (JS). We analyze the data (51 articles) for indications of (1) translators’ overall JS; (2) associations of overall JS with individual, job-intrinsic, job-extrinsic, societal, and background factors; (3) translators’ satisfaction with job-intrinsic, job-extrinsic, and societal aspects of their work. Translators’ overall JS in the data is fairly high, and it is linked to emotional intelligence, the nature of translating, autonomy, interpersonal relationships, status perceptions, working mode, gender, and experience. The translators studied are mostly happy with the job-intrinsic aspects, but their views on extrinsic and societal aspects are more divided. Gaps in research include individual factors (e.g., self-efficacy, personality traits), background factors (e.g., cultural and socio-economic differences), and the interaction of the different types of factors.

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The Translation Profession in Malaysia: The Translator’s Status and SelfPerception

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Translators’ image in Iranian feature films

Translators’ image in Iranian feature films

At the Top of the Tree? Surveying Conference Interpreters as an Elite

What do we know about translators’ job satisfaction?

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