Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Mellinger, Christopher D.; Hanson, Thomas A.

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“…As translation is both cognitive science and psychology (Munday, 2008), the effect of personality traits on the quality of translation could not be disregarded (Akbari & Segers, 2017;Pourgharib & Dehbandi, 2013). Particularly in translation process research, translators" personality traits are quite obvious in terms of how they handle obscurity while translating (Mellinger & Hanson, 2017). In general, the translator"s personality traits can be distinguished in terms of extraverted or introverted, sensing or intuitive, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving (Myers, Myers, & Kirby, 1998).…”

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Theme markedness in the translation of student translators

Sofyan

Tarigan

2018

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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A good translation product should be able to reflect the typical characteristics of the target language in terms of its function and structure. One of the structure features that can show that the target text (TT) is free from the influence of the structure of the source language (SL) is its theme structure. As there are both marked and unmarked themes, this would be considered as one of the options to characterize the TT structure. This is a research-based article aimed at finding out the extent of theme markedness in the student translators" TTs. This research used content analysis design, taking 15 student translators as the participants. They were asked to translate two news item texts from English as the source text (ST) into Bahasa Indonesia as the TT. The data were collected using Translog. Based on the data analysis, it was found that: (i) simple unmarked theme (SUT) was the theme most frequently used in both the ST and the TTs; (ii) Indonesian news item texts were characterized by the frequent use of marked themes. This finding indicates that Indonesian news item text puts more emphasis on how the events presented in the text can be easily caught by the readers as SUT is characterized through the use of short clauses with low lexical density. This study concludes that English and Indonesian news item texts share a small number of similarities as most of their clauses are composed of simple marked themes (SMT) but the similarities are outweighed by a large number of differences.Keywords: news item text; simple and multiple theme; student translator; theme markedness INTRODUCTIONTranslation as a meaning making activity is closely related to the application of linguistic theories in its analysis. This is due to the fact that meaning is represented by a language, and a language is the focus of linguistics. One of the leading theories of linguistics concerned with the meaning of language is systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The basic analysis of SFL in translation is on how the source text (ST) is transferred to the target text (TT) without changing the original meaning or message contained in the ST from its language metafunction point of view (ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions).As translation is not a matter of word-by-word transfer, textual metafunction realized through thematic structure (theme and rheme), information structure (new

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Theme markedness in the translation of student translators

Sofyan

Tarigan

2018

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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“…In order to discover whether all the research conducted by students in Indonesian universities has followed the TS research development in the world, a list of phrases from the theory section above is used to make a comparison. The list is obtained from Williams & Chesterman (2002), Tymoczko (2005), Saldanha & O'Brien (2013) to Mellinger & Hanson (2017).…”

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“…The newest book on TS research is from Mellinger & Hanson (2017). Their work focuses on quantitative research in translation and interpreting studies.…”

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Translation Studies Research Development in Indonesia

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2019

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This paper is an overview on the development of Translation Studies (TS) research in Indonesia from 2008 to 2018. The study aims to discover whether the TS research conducted by the students of ten Indonesian universities has followed the present trends of TS research in the world. The data were obtained from the final papers (undergraduate theses, Master’s degree theses, and doctoral theses) of the universities having translation programs in Indonesia, particularly on Java and Bali Islands. The titles of the final papers were analyzed to obtain a general idea of what topics of TS research are usually investigated by Indonesian university students. The results show that most of the topics are categorized into text analysis and translation (product-oriented research), and very few belong to the process-oriented research, participant-oriented research, and other themes. This leads to the conclusion that TS research in Indonesia has not yet developed well and has not varied according to the international TS research progress.

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“…Nonetheless, it seems strange and even alarming that one of the first comprehensive publications considering and summarizing ways to use these tools in the field of T&I has come to light only in 2017 (Mellinger & Hanson, 2017).…”

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“…Meanwhile, regarding graduate-level translation and interpreting programs, scholars mention that such programs are traditionally housed in comparative literature programs and do not regularly incorporate quantitative research methods in their curricula, and opportunities for formal study using empirical methods are scarce" (Mellinger & Hanson, 2017).…”

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Should Math Tools and Quantitative Methods be Part of University-based Translator and Interpreter’s Training? Russian Graduates’ Voices in the Focus

Atabekova

Stepanova

Udina

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EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The current importance of the research stems from the fact it identifies the reasons regarding translators' and interpreters' attitudes towards math tools and methods in their training program curriculum, and there has been no previous research on the topic. Another point to be mentioned in this regard is that research data and findings contribute to the overall significance of reliability, validity, and objectivity of the measurement and interpretation of the data within the landscape of multifaceted Humanities studies in general, and theoretical and applied aspects of professional activities in the field of Translation and Interpretation, in particular. The goal of the research is to explore the attitudes to the above-mentioned tools and methods as part of academic curriculum regarding Russian graduates of Master's programs on Translation and Interpretation. The goal was reached through a number of steps, including the analysis of the MA programs on Translation and Interpretation curriculum within the international framework, the identification of general trends regarding graduates' perception and the study of those components that shape their attitudes. The research methodology combined theoretical studies, qualitative and quantitative types of analysis. The empirical data was collected through the survey of graduates of various Russian universities who were part of Academia or Industry related to Translation and Interpretation. Cluster, factor, discriminant types of analysis were implemented. The SPSS was used for data processing. The research results confirmed the hypothesis that graduates' attitudes to mathematical tools and methods in general and to the respective module inclusion in the Universitybased translator and interpreter' training in particular depend on the two following factors. First, it is quality of MA program students completed in terms of the program module/course on math tools and methods for translation studies and second, graduates' working requirements. The research significance derives from the confirmed importance of the curriculum that should integrate research, math tools, technology and employers' A. Atabekova et al. / Math Tools and Quantitative Methods in Interpreter's Training 5296requirements. Moreover, the research specified the above curriculum particular requirements regarding translators and interpreters.

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Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies

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Theme markedness in the translation of student translators

Theme markedness in the translation of student translators

Translation Studies Research Development in Indonesia

Should Math Tools and Quantitative Methods be Part of University-based Translator and Interpreter’s Training? Russian Graduates’ Voices in the Focus

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