Translation and communication for development: the case of a health campaign in Zambia

Chibamba, Mwamba

doi:10.1080/13556509.2019.1586069

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“…While translation may be narrowly viewed as 'linguistic equivalence between two languages', cultural contexts must be considered during the process of translation (Chibamba, 2018). Translation studies scholars concur that multilingual settings necessitate the process of translation (Marais, 2014;Nord, 1997;Tesseur & Crack, 2020).…”

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“…The translation effort in this study was based on the premise that if learners understand tasks in their home languages, then they might be in a better position to solve them successfully. However, Chibamba (2018) cautions that translation is a challenging process in that no translation will possibly be congruent to its original text. In this study, a mathematics task was translated from English into several home languages that existed in the class, and those languages were isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi and Sesotho.…”

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Complexities of translating mathematics tasks from English to learners’ home languages

Mpalami

2022

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Mathematics education remains problematic in South Africa’s schools. However, some mathematics educators are deliberately using learners’ home languages in tasks to assist learners to understand mathematics. Research-based evidence shows that learners’ home languages when used as a resource have a potential to enhance learners’ understanding of mathematics. This article addresses the issue of translating mathematics tasks from English to learners’ home languages, a field that is less common in mathematics education studies. The study shows that there are complexities associated with such translation which all stakeholders in education should bear in mind. The article does so by referring to a study where a Grade 11 mathematics educator in a multilingual class tried to use learners’ home languages in tasks with an aim to enhance learners’ understanding of linear programming concepts. The study was conducted in township school in Gauteng province. Ethical clearance was given by the Gauteng Department of Education. Data were collected through observations and were analysed qualitatively. The situated sociocultural perspectives guided the study. The findings show that during the translation process, the educator went as far as translating mathematics technical terms. Such translation distorted the meaning of the original task and therefore made it hard for learners to comprehend concepts as envisioned. The recommendation is that the translation should not be left to individual mathematics educators but rather there should be a broader approach of having mathematics tasks translated from English into other official languages and such tasks be distributed to all schools throughout the country. Professional translators must also be contracted to do such a job.

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Complexities of translating mathematics tasks from English to learners’ home languages

Mpalami

2022

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“…In the translation of civil-society terminology, smaller organizations play an 'intermediary' role between the big development donors and the local civil-society sectors; these intermediaries are actively engaged in the process of translating ideas for the public. Chibamba (2018) investigates the translation of public-health campaigns from a sociological perspective with an emphasis on the socio-economic and cultural contexts in which translations take place in a developing country. Adopting a semiotic approach to development studies, Marais and Delgado Luchner (2018) analyse the local and global affordances and constraints of translation and interpreting phenomena in the development contexts of Africa.…”

Section: Translation and Developmentmentioning

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Exploring the translation–development interactions from an emergent semiotic perspective

Chen

2022

LANS-TTS

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The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area or GBA), a megalopolis in China, has developed rapidly and achieved remarkable results in recent years. This study aims to explore the translation–development interactions in the GBA from an emergent semiotic perspective. Following the studies on translation and development (Marais, 2014, 2018; Olivier de Sarden, 2005), this study views development as a semiotic process of making meaning under specific affordances and constraints, while translations could be regarded as meaningful intercultural mediations or adaptations that help to transcend language barriers and support regional development. Through exploring different translation practices in education, economics and the media, this study analyses how translation plays a mediating role in the development of the GBA in multiple respects. It first examines the adaptation of curriculum designs of translation courses in the universities of the GBA and then analyses the functions of the translation industry in support of the economic development of the GBA. Finally, it analyses the translations of international publicity material on the tourism websites of the GBA to explore the ways in which translation mediates in the cultural exchanges and coordinated developments regarding the GBA and its component parts. The research findings show that translation practices interact with the developmental contexts at the linguistic, economic and cultural levels, contributing to the coordinated development of the GBA.

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“…In a similar vein, Sebotsa & Leshota (2018) conduct morpho-semantic and lexico-semantic analyses in their investigation of the impact of translation on HIV/AIDS-related terminology in Sesotho. Chibamba (2018) furthers the discussion by drawing our attention to intralingual and intersemiotic translation in the health campaign in Zambia. Kristensen et al (2018), by contrast, analyze the translation of numeric health information from the health authorities to ordinary citizens in Denmark.…”

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Translation in global health emergencies

Diao

2022

Cad. Trad.

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The link between translation and global health is an important yet under-researched topic. COVID-19 has opened a significant responsibility and a vast space for translation scholars in approaching this topic. Starting from a brief survey of research on translation and global health, this article examines the roles of translators and interpreters in knowledge translation, and thus in the combat against COVID-19 pandemic by investigating two cases, i.e., Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment and Jin Ji’s interpreting service in Italy. It is revealed that translators and interpreters have functioned as initiators, messengers, and co-producers of COVID-19 knowledge and they, in collaboration with other actors (health practitioners, medical researchers, policymakers, etc.), have contributed to the empowerment of patients and ordinary citizens in the fight. The author argues that translation plays an indispensable part in the transcendence of frontiers (sectorial, disciplinary, cultural, and geographic) in knowledge translation, especially during global health emergencies.

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Translation and communication for development: the case of a health campaign in Zambia

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Complexities of translating mathematics tasks from English to learners’ home languages

Complexities of translating mathematics tasks from English to learners’ home languages

Exploring the translation–development interactions from an emergent semiotic perspective

Translation in global health emergencies

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