Degree of text awareness in professional vs. Non-professional tranlators

Jonasson, Kerstin

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“…Influenced by their language learning experience and/or their pre-existing conceptions about translation, language learners lack an awareness of the translation process as firmly supported by various studies on the behaviours of language learners and translators in Translation (Alves, 2005;Jonasson, 1998;Lörscher, 2005;Okonska & Kościałkowska-Okońska, 2013;Olk, 2001;Tirkkonen-Condit, 2005). Language learners often try to reproduce the ST as closely as possible, which does not always fulfill the communicative function of the translation.…”

Section: Impact Of Language Learning On Translationmentioning

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Translation in Language Teaching - The Need for Redefinition of Translation

Nguyen

2024

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Translation has been long excluded from language classes due to its association with the drawbacks of the Grammar Translation Method (GTM). However, in recent years, translation has made a comeback with its positive impact on students’ language performance. The effect of translation on the learner’s language knowledge has been finite compared with other language activities. The paper presents a critical analysis of research on translation in language teaching. It is found that the limited results of studies on the impact of translation may involve linguistic focus. Generally, most of the studies did not focus on the meaningfulness of linguistic items, which can only be achieved by placing them in context. In other words, the linguistic view of translation is still common in studies supporting translation. The redefinition of translation should incorporate communicative aspects of translation and the function of translation in a communicative context. The literature-based paper reinstates the importance of a communicative view of translation in language teaching, and it makes proposals related to the inclusion of translation in language learning classes.

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Translation in Language Teaching - The Need for Redefinition of Translation

Nguyen

2024

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“…Historically, and due to its links to translator training and an associated drive to support the reputation of translation as a professional field, research in translation studies has often emphasized the forms and importance of translation expertise available (only) to trained translators (Gile 2009;Jonasson 1998;PACTE 2003). Such research tends to proceed from the assumption that there are self-evident differences between "expert" and "non-expert" translators, with the latter often seen as necessarily less competent.…”

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“Coming out” … as a translator? Expertise, identities and knowledge practices in an LGBTIQ* migrant community translation project

2019

Translation Studies

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In recent years, there has been increasing interest in translation studies in translation projects involving unpaid, "non-expert" translators. At the same time, the fields of science & technology studies and social movement studies have examined the social knowledge practices at work in social movements. This article discusses the case of a translation project by MiGaY, a Viennabased activist organization dedicated to LGBTIQ* migrants in Austria. In 2016, MiGaY published a text on "coming out" that pays specific attention to the challenges faced by LGBTIQ* migrants. Drawing on Thomas Gieryn's notion of boundary-work, this article examines how translation expertise is negotiated in relation to "translation", "activism", and "LGBTIQ*" questions. It proposes a distinction between identity position (e.g. an "expert" or "lay" translator) and knowledge practices (i.e. actual, contextually contingent knowledge processes), since these do not necessarily coincide.

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“…As could be expected, TB's target rendering of the item was easy to understand and more to the point. (TS's choice of the target translation based on the TT recipients shows a macro-level approach involving text awareness (Jonasson 1998) or control by translation-expectation structures (Kiraly 1995). ) This finding suggests that background knowledge or extralinguistic knowledge supercedes linguistic knowledge in solving comprehension problems in translation.…”

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Use of Extralinguistic Knowledge in Translation

Kim

2006

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A competent translator seems to make extensive use of inferential strategies in the process of understanding a source text in translation. It also appears that extralinguistic knowledge plays an important role in this inference. However, it has not been determined how important it is relative to other components of translator competence and in what way it is important. This study investigated the use of extralinguistic knowledge in comprehension processes by analyzing data from L2->L1 translation, a questionnaire and a think-aloud study. Professional translators, translation students (or semi-professionals), and language learners participated in the study. Major (albeit tentative) findings are the following: (i) The use of extralinguistic knowledge that is most relevant for a specific translation problem makes the inferential process more concise and efficient and it leads to a higher-quality translation; (ii) “Translation effort” can compensate for overall lack of linguistic and extralinguistic competence in translation. It is suggested that a translator needs to have a broad base of specialized knowledge as well as world knowledge. Also, s/he should bear in mind that the greater the effort or involvement with the translation, the better the output.

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Degree of text awareness in professional vs. Non-professional tranlators

Cited by 8 publications

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Translation in Language Teaching - The Need for Redefinition of Translation

Translation in Language Teaching - The Need for Redefinition of Translation

“Coming out” … as a translator? Expertise, identities and knowledge practices in an LGBTIQ* migrant community translation project

Use of Extralinguistic Knowledge in Translation

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