Translating as risk management

Pym, Anthony

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2015.06.010

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“…Translation has been studied as risk management by a small but growing number of researchers (Wilss 2005;Pym 2005Pym , 2008aPym , 2008bPym , 2015Akbari 2009;Lammers 2011;Hui 2012;Matsushita 2014Matsushita , 2016Canfora & Ottmann 2015, 2016Cornelius & Feinauer 2017). Some of these approaches (e.g.…”

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“…Seen in these terms, the translator's risk management can involve several general dispositions, of which risk taking, risk avoidance, and risk transfer have been modeled previously (Pym 2015). Matsushita (2016), working in part from Pym, has more recently identified a fourth type of disposition, risk mitigation, where the translator incurs one kind of risk in order to reduce another.…”

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Risk mitigation in translator decisions

Pym

Matsushita

2018

Across Languages and Cultures

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The translator's risk management while translating can involve several general dispositions, of which risk taking, risk avoidance, and risk transfer have been modeled previously (Pym 2015). In this paper we propose a fourth type of disposition, risk mitigation, which was identified by Matsushita (2016) through empirical research based on Pym's model. Risk mitigation is a disposition where the translator incurs one kind of risk in order to reduce another. Analyzing authentic examples in multiple languages, we ask whether mitigation is fundamentally different from the other three types, whether it involves a specific restriction on how much effort should rationally be invested by the translator, and whether a general logic of trade-offs is applicable. We further propose that mitigation correlates with factors both on the production side of the translator's discourse, where it enhances translatorial visibility, and on the reception side, where it can respond to imprecise identification of the target public.

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Section: Previous Studiesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Risk mitigation in translator decisions

Pym

Matsushita

2018

Across Languages and Cultures

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“…In another qualitative study, Tirkkonen-Condit (2000) listed four main strategies translators use to deal with uncertainty issues in texts: to ponder on each solution in turn, to produce justifications or endorsements, to subject them to audition, or to postpone them. These coping strategies have been identified in the literature as 'uncertainty management' (Angelone, 2010) or 'risk management' (Pym, 2015) and are considered an inherent part of translator competence.…”

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“…This does not necessarily imply that translators are not equipped to deal with ambiguity. We know from the literature that translators need coping strategies when comprehension, transfer or production indecision occurs -this is referred to by Angelone (2010) as 'uncertainty management', and as 'uncertainty risk' by Pym (2015). However, honing in on translators' strategic behaviour and assessing how they deal with these types of ambiguity is beyond the scope of this quantitative study.…”

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Investigating tolerance of ambiguity in expert and novice translators and interpreters: an exploratory study

Rosiers

Eyckmans

2017

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In recent years socio-psychological language research has influenced the fields of translation and interpreting studies resulting in a growing interest in personality traits such as extraversion, emotional stability, self-efficacy and risk-taking as relevant constructs of translator competence and interpreter aptitude (Hubscher-Davidson, 2009;Bolaños Medina, 2014). A personality trait that has received limited attention, especially in relation to interpreting, is tolerance of ambiguity (TA). TA is generally described as the ability to manage situations that are new, complex or insoluble (Budner, 1962). As these types of situations seem to be inherent to the translation and interpreting practice, the construct has interesting potential. This study aims to shed some light on the level of TA in novice and expert translators and interpreters. To this end, we have administered the Tolerance for Ambiguity Scale (Herman, Stevens, Bird, Mendenhall & Oddou, 2010) to two groups of student interpreters (n=20) and translators (n=20) and two professional populations of interpreters (n=20) and translators (n=14). The results indicate a significant difference between interpreters and translators at the professional level regardless of age. This seems to suggest that the nature of the interpreter's job aids the development of tolerance of ambiguity.

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“…I then ask them to do a very simple kind of risk analysis, based on identifying the communicative risks pertinent to each participant (for an analysis of the different kinds of risks in translation, see Pym 2015). We assume that each participant has a very basic goal: to enhance their chances of survival (other goals can be built on top of that one, depending on how much time is available in class).…”

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New Insights in the History of Interpreting

Pérez¹

2016

Benjamins Translation Library

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Translating as risk management

Cited by 89 publications

References 11 publications

Risk mitigation in translator decisions

Risk mitigation in translator decisions

Investigating tolerance of ambiguity in expert and novice translators and interpreters: an exploratory study

New Insights in the History of Interpreting

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