Panopticism, a social theory conceptualized by Foucault, has been readdressed within the scope of surveillance practices with the rise of technology. Black Mirror, a popular science-fiction series, questions the possible (mostly adverse) outcomes of living in a hightech world in a dystopian atmosphere with a focus on surveillance. Although the anthology series have various unrelated episodes raising concern over different subjects and themes, panoptic surveillance stands out as the recurrent theme throughout the series. In this regard, panopticism can be interpreted as a hypotext which transforms its hypertext, Black Mirror, by means of leaving its traces of surveillance in the series to constitute a general echoed theme rather than being explicitly mentioned and directly brought to the attention of the audience. This study aims to analyse the intertextual relationship between panopticism and Black Mirror as two nonliterary texts as well as to discuss how intertextual links are built between the two.

Rudyard Kipling was first introduced to Turkish literature with the Turkish translation of his children’s literature work titled The Jungle Book in 1936, which was followed by a good number of retranslations up until today. This study aims to test the main assumptions of the retranslation theory with five different Turkish translations of The Jungle Book. The retranslations were compared with each other, along with the first translation in terms of text-bound and culture-specific items, as well as the historical and contextual background in which the translations were produced. To this end, the study can be divided into two main parts as regards the method adopted. In the first part, a diachronic analysis was conducted with a specific focus on the socio-contextual conditions of the translation periods. In the second part of the study, a synchronic analysis was made to re-test the hypothesis. Based on the comparative examples provided, it was found that there was no linear progression to a more target-oriented approach among the first and retranslations as asserted in the retranslation hypothesis. Instead, contextual factors of the time when the translation was produced and published were found to be more determinant in the translation choices of the translators. The selection of case studies also seems to affect the approval or refusal of the hypothesis in the literature. In this sense, it is suggested to apply both synchronic and diachronic analysis to obtain more reliable findings on the concept and nature of retranslation.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented shift to the mode of educational programs, from face-to-face to online, all over the world. Interpreting courses, being no exception, had to face various challenges as well. This study aims to investigate the impacts of emergency remote teaching on interpreting courses from the trainers' perspectives. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted online with a study group consisting of 16 interpreter trainers with at least three years of experience in teaching face-to-face at the undergraduate level, who had to move their courses online during the pandemic. Observation, another qualitative method, was used for the second stage of data collection to ensure triangulation. In all, four online interpreting courses held by three different trainers at separate universities in Turkey were observed by the researchers. Data analysis in reflexive thematic form was conducted using the MaxQda software. The findings are discussed with specific emphasis on course design, student motivation, technical challenges, and the additional workload of trainers to inform both in-person and further online teaching practices.

1990’larda sözlü çeviri araştırmalarında yaşanan paradigma kaymasıyla birlikte, sözlü çeviri eğitiminde geleneksel usta-çırak modeli yerini deneysel araştırmalara bıraktı ve sözlü çeviri eğitimi daha akademik bir hal almaya başladı. Günümüze kadar sözlü çeviri eğitiminde modeller, sözlü çeviri edinçleri, uzmanlık ve beceri kazanımı, müfredat geliştirme ve öğrenci-odaklı uygulamalara ilişkin daha objektif, ampirik ve teorik çalışmalardan faydalanıldı. Bunun yanı sıra, farklı zamanlarda pek çok araştırmacı, gerçek hayatta uygulanan sözlü çeviri eğitimi pratiklerine ilişkin çalışmalar yapılması çağrısında bulundu. Söz konusu çağrıya yanıt niteliği taşıyan bu çalışmada, sözlü çeviri eğitimcilerinin eğitime yönelik yaklaşım ve görüşleri üzerinden hedeflenen sözlü çeviri edinçleri, sınıf içi uygulamaları ve yöntemleri, eğitimde karşılaşılan sorunlar ve çözüm önerileri araştırılmıştır. Bu sayede, gerçek hayattaki sözlü çeviri eğitimi uygulamalarına ışık tutulması amaçlanmıştır. Bu doğrultuda, Türkiye’de bulunan üniversitelerde lisans düzeyinde İngilizce-Türkçe, İngilizce-Fransızca-Türkçe, Almanca-Türkçe ve Arapça-Türkçe dil çiftlerinde sözlü çeviri dersi veren 26 sözlü çeviri eğitimcisine anket ve yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme uygulanmıştır. Ayrıca, veri üçlemesini sağlamak üzere gözlem yöntemi kullanılmış ve katılımcılar arasından 3 eğitimcinin sözlü çeviri dersleri araştırmacı tarafından gözlemlenmiştir. Sınıf içinde kullanılan materyallerin niteliğini, hedeflenen edinçleri ve en sık kullanılan pedagojik yöntemleri ortaya koyan anket verileri, nicel veri analizi yöntemi ile incelenmiş ve bu veriler görüşme verileri ile karşılaştırılarak in-vivo ifadelerle birlikte sunulmuştur. Katılımcıların görüşlerine derinlemesine ulaşma imkanı sağlayan görüşme verileri ise MAXQDA yazılımı ile uygulanan tematik analiz yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Elde edilen veriler gözlem verileri ile karşılaştırılarak tartışılmıştır. Bu kapsamda, çalışmanın Türkiye’de lisans düzeyindeki sözlü çeviri eğitiminin uygulamaya dayalı yapısını detaylı biçimde ele alması ve eğitimcilerin görüş ve deneyimlerine yer veren ilk çalışma olması sebebiyle alanyazına katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir.

The present study aims to investigate the efficacy of the collaborative learning method on the translation skills of students at the undergraduate level through a new model developed by the researchers. To this end, a pre-/post-test control group research design was followed to obtain empirical results in the translation of medical texts. The study group consisted of 60 undergraduate translation students in Turkey. Thirty students in the control group were instructed by using conventional training methods and each student worked individually. The completed translation was then evaluated by the instructor, as commonly applied in undergraduate translation programmes. The other 30 subjects in the experimental group were instructed through the collaborative learning method. The students participated in teamwork and undertook various roles such as terminologists, translators, proof-readers, and peer editors to check the final work. At the end of the three-week training, the difference between the translation performance scores of the two groups was found statistically significant in favour of the experimental group. The findings demonstrate the significant contribution of the collaborative learning method to the undergraduate students as this method provides them with an environment to improve the necessary translation skills for their future careers in terms of adopting different roles other than translators.