Attitudes to role, status and professional identity in interpreters and translators with Chinese in Shanghai and Taipei

Setton, Robin; Liangliang, Alice Guo

doi:10.1075/bct.32.07set

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“…Similarly, Sook (2015) claims that there are currently no professional translation bodies in Korea and Malaysia. Also, Setton and Liangliang (2011) found that in Taiwan, very few professional translators are member of any local or national translator association. Regarding the lack of specific market entrance criteria for translators, the findings of this study are in line with the findings of Katan (2009) who argues that in most countries, anyone can claim the title of translator.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translation profession in Iran: current challenges and future prospects

2017

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Translation is considered as a form of intercultural communication which involves the cooperation of many agents. In recent years, increased attention has been focused on the people and institutions involved with translation. One of the main research areas that has recently emerged is the investigation of the link between the sociology of professions and the status of translation as an occupation. This study aims to determine the current challenges to establishing a professional status for translators in Iran and attempts to offer solutions for improving the status quo based on the suggestions of active agents in the field. The data for this study were collected qualitatively through indepth interviews using a purposive sample of translation agents in Iran. The results indicate that there are numerous administrative, educational, social and financial challenges facing translation as a profession in Iran. The proposed solutions for improving the current situation have been discussed in the light of the relevant literature.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translation profession in Iran: current challenges and future prospects

2017

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“…Research by Setton and Guo (Setton Robin, 2009) shows that translators and interpreters with Chinese in general are loyal, neutral, low-profile, and also stick to international professionalism norms. However, surprisingly, when handling political texts that can sometimes contain very sensitive material, they have to use a special strategy/technique, namely adding/omitting some words in the translation or interpretation, to give the texts a more neutral/low-profile tone.…”

Section: B the Interpreters/translatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Discourse Analysis in Translation of Speech Texts on "One Belt One Road (OBOR)"

Hutabarat¹

2019

Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)

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A Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) is an approach used in this study to analyze China's political speech on "One Belt One Road (OBOR)". The speech texts on OBOR as a case study is analyzed through a written interview with the Chinese scholars and mainly is aimed to analyze the translators' works as well as to find out the discourse's results. The case study presents the point of views from Mainland China's scholars in National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) as the respondents, while content analysis is based on an insider's perspective, i.e., the Chinese government through its missions' translators. In this study, data gathered from official websites of the PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in UN Mission and Melbourne. There are Chinese thousands of characters and English words of speech texts to be explored. As a result, the study not only describes the relation of scholars' background with their translation but also analyze their understanding of OBOR's concepts and their applied components, e.g. strategies/techniques/styles. Finally, the components served as indicative functions to successfully deliver messages in-lined to the discourse. There were five main components applied in the texts translation, e.g., domestication, foreignization, changes in content/structure, metaphor, and omission. It is shown that the translators aim to create a friendly image of China by emphasizing slightly different words but in close meaning to the source texts; thus creating a new meaning in the target texts as well as weakening the words' weight in the target texts.

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“…Some researchers even use the term 'status' in the sense of social ranking without an explicit definition (e.g. Choi & Lim 2002;Setton & Guo Liangliang 2011). To complicate matters further, quite a few studies partly explore translator status through related concepts, such as professional role and identity (Koskinen 2009;Setton & Guo Liangliang 2011), (self-)image (Sela-Sheffy 2008 or habitus (Sela-Sheffy & Shlesinger 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Twelve articles or monographs where translator status is the focus of or a major component in an empirical study (Choi & Lim 2002;Dam & Zethsen 2008Katan 2009;Koskinen 2009;Sela-Sheffy 2006, 2008Setton & Guo Liangliang 2011) Four empirical studies (Bowker 2004;Chan 2011;Monzó 2011;Thomson-Wohlgemuth 2004) and one survey (Pym et al 2012) on the state of the profession, with implications for translator status.…”

Section: Survey Of Existing Empirical Research On Translator Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%