Changing translation practices and moving boundaries in translation studies

Gambier, Yves; Kasperẹ, Ramunė

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“…Despite academic engagement, the situation has not changed much on the ground, and the (lack of) regulation of the profession has played into the growing ease with which 'non-professional' translators can enter the market (see Jiménez-Crespo 2017;McDonough Dolmaya 2012, inter alia). The multifaceted impact of technological change on the translation industry is widely understood: developments in CAT tools, and now neural MT and PE, are having both positive and negative impacts across working conditions, quality standards, productivity, and the very nature of translation itself (see Ciobanu 2022;Gambier & Kasperė 2021;Sandrini 2022), while we also cannot yet gauge the impact of large language models (LLMs). Another disruptor is the growth of translation platforms (see Fırat 2021;Jiménez-Crespo 2017;Moorkens 2020).…”

Section: Existential Sustainability In the Wider Industry Contextmentioning

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Thriving or Surviving: Motivation, Satisfaction, and Existential Sustainability in the Translation Profession

Lambert,

Walker

2024

mikael

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Despite the health of the language industry in general, the translation profession(al) faces a range of sustainability challenges. Against a backdrop of key disruptors that are transforming workflows and working conditions, and ongoing concerns over status, pay, and wellbeing, industry reports flag an intensifying “talent crunch”, making it increasingly difficult to retain vital human capital. And yet, despite a range of rather bleak industry and academic data, many translators are still happy. In this paper, we use Maslow’s influential theory of motivation to draw together key concerns and to analyse this motivation-satisfaction paradox. We identify worrying deficits in all and even the most basic needs, and contend that translators’ self-actualisation – in this case, their sense of fulfilment through translation itself – acts as a ‘pull’ factor that can compensate for these unfulfilled needs, to a degree. Ultimately, however, these deficits are clearly taking an increasing toll and, in the interests of long-term professional conservation, we must focus further on the lived experience of the individual translator to build towards a thriving professional environment.

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Section: Existential Sustainability In the Wider Industry Contextmentioning

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Thriving or Surviving: Motivation, Satisfaction, and Existential Sustainability in the Translation Profession

Lambert,

Walker

2024

mikael

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“…With the above goal, DigiTrans provides scholars and practitioners with a research outlet to explore translation and localization-related phenomena that can be characterized by the continuing shift in digital environments. Technological advances are leading to the new ontology of translation through the convergence or blurring of previously separate sub-domains or modes of practice (Gambier and Kasperẹ 2021) and co-evolution of human and machine translation (Desjardins, Larsonneur and Lacour 2020). The journal therefore seeks to embrace discussions arising from this transforming landscape, promoting both theoretical and practice-led insights in the following areas:…”

Section: Towards Critical Digital Discoursementioning

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Introduction to Digital Translation: International Journal of Translation and Localization

O’Hagan

Dolmaya

2023

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This editorial provides a background to the new journal Digital Translation: International Journal of Translation and Localization (DigiTrans) which has evolved from the Journal of Internationalization and Localization (JIAL). DigiTrans aims to be open to the widening scope of research avenues in translation studies (TS) aligned with the current rapid cycle of technological advances. Some of the resulting changes look set to reframe translation and localization as we further substantiate in this introduction. The new title for the journal solidifies the focus on the interconnection between translation and the digital world, of which localization was among the early embodiments.Software developers recognised the need to adapt software for general consumers when international mass markets opened up for personal computers in the 1980s, in contrast to the limited market in the previous era of the mainframe computer (Dunne 2014, 148). From the pioneering days of the early 1980s, multilanguage vendors began to form in the mid-1980s, offering localization services, and thereby paving the digital pathway for large-scale language services (Esselink 2000, 5). By the end of the decade localization became "a veritable industry unto itself " (Dunne 2014, 149) with the establishment of the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) in 1990. Localization began with computer software (Esselink 1998), then websites (Esselink 2000), followed by apps (Roturier 2015) and digital objects and platforms (Foralon 2020), enabling them in different locales to serve users across regions. Although closely related to the computer

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Do education and the labor market speak the same language?

Arrabal

2023

Babel

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This paper addresses the need for terminology convergence and the systematic use of up-to-date descriptors and concepts in the European higher education and labor market environments. Rapid developments in the language industry are remodelling the translation profession in particular and generating new processes, new training needs and, therefore, a new skills demand. Changing market expectations, cross-occupational mobility and multifaceted professional profiles in the translation industry claim to exploit the full potential of standard and multilingual taxonomies like ESCO – the European Classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. This research draws on the European Master’s in Translation (EMT) competence framework for 2018–2024 to perform a descriptive analysis of the English and Spanish entries for the occupation of “translator” in ESCO’s latest 2020 version. Findings suggest that ESCO’s content could be aligned with the professionally oriented EMT framework to overcome shortcomings in representing translators’ identity and present the reality of the translation market, while matching its content more accurately to the most relevant skills and competences generally developed in current translator training programs.

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Changing translation practices and moving boundaries in translation studies

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Thriving or Surviving: Motivation, Satisfaction, and Existential Sustainability in the Translation Profession

Thriving or Surviving: Motivation, Satisfaction, and Existential Sustainability in the Translation Profession

Introduction to Digital Translation: International Journal of Translation and Localization

Do education and the labor market speak the same language?

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