This volume presents recent research that follows translators, interpreters and translation project managers into their various work contexts and environments. It extends the scope of analysis of translation research from individuals and texts to collectives in their social and material worlds. Particular attention is paid to current translation and interpreting practice, the genesis of translations, the handling and completion of translation projects in real workplaces and the factors that shape these translation/interpreting situations.
Covering fields as diverse as technical and literary translation, transcreation and church interpreting, the chapters show just how varied translation and interpreting processes and workplaces can prove to be. They provide new insights into the effects of the increasing use of technology in the translation workplace and the manifold requirements placed on translators and interpreters in a heterogeneous and fast-changing field of practice.
Originally published as special issue of Translation Spaces 6:1 (2017).

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Hanna Risku; Regina Rogl; Jelena Milošević

Jelena Milošević; Hanna Risku; Regina Rogl

Benjamins Publishing Company, John

John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 2019

Netherlands, Netherlands

Translation Practice in the Field
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Translation practice in the field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes
1. Introduction
2. The derivation and diversification of translation process research
3. Workplace research
4. Researching translation practice in the field: Theoretical frameworks
5. Topics in translation/interpreting workplace research
6. The contribution of this volume
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
“It was on my mind all day”: Literary translators working from home – some implications of workplace dynamics
1. Introduction
2. Study design
2.1 Participants
2.2 Material for translation
2.3 Tools and production of data
2.4 Nature of data
3. Outline of task organization
3.1 Timelines and sessions
3.2 Phases
3.3 Fragmentation of the translation process
3.4 Hybridity of the translator’s voice
4. Conclusion
References
Managing transcreation projects: An ethnographic study
1. Introduction
2. Key concepts
2.1 Transcreation
2.2 Assumed transcreation
2.3 The sociology of translation
3. Methodology
3.1 Workplace studies in translation
3.2 Researcher roles
3.3 Frames of the ethnographic study
4. Analysis
5. Results
6. Perspectives for translation
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Experiencing the interpreter’s role: Emotions of involvement and detachment in simultaneous church interpreting
1. Introduction
2. Interpreter’s role from an affective perspective
3. Method and research material
4. Social settings: Simultaneous interpreting in two religious contexts
5. The affectivity of involvement and detachment in simultaneous church interpreting
5.1 Involvement (and detachment) when interpreting in the PCS
5.2 (Involvement and) detachment when interpreting at the FLC summer conference
6. Conclusions
References
Investigating the cognitive ergonomic aspects of translation tools in a workplace setting
1. Introduction
1.1 Cognitive ergonomics
1.2 Workplace studies
1.3 CAT tools
1.4 Expected contribution
2. Study setup
2.1 Participants
2.2 Translation tasks
2.3 The translation tool
3. Data collection and processing
4. Results and analyses
4.1 Basic hardware and software
4.2 Use of tools
4.3 Consultation of information resources
4.4 Use of screens
4.5 Gaze behaviour
4.6 Productivity and quality
5. Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Socio-technical issues in professional translation practice
1. Introduction
2. Translating as an activity situated in a socio-technical system
3. Constraints on the situated activity of professional translation
3.1 Constraints identified in commentaries and interviews (CTP project)
3.2 Constraints identified in survey responses (ErgoTrans project)
4. Organizational ergonomics of professional translation
4.1 Organizational ergonomic issues identified in the survey (ErgoTrans project)
4.2 Organizational ergonomic issues identified in interviews (ErgoTrans project)
4.2.1 Positive, negative, and stressful aspects
4.2.2 Self-determination
4.2.3 Motivation and feedback
5. Directions for change
Acknowledgements
References
Expertise acquisition through deliberate practice: Gauging perceptions and behaviors of translators and project managers
1. The elusiveness of expertise in translation
2. Indicators of expertise
3. Expertise studies on translation through an ethnographic lens
4. Deliberate practice as a focal point
5. Questionnaires on facets of expertise
5.1 Methods
5.1.1 Participants and instruments
5.1.2 Analytic approach
6. Results and analysis
6.1 Perceptions pertaining to expectations
6.2 Expertise and its assessment
6.3 Deliberate practice
7. Concluding remarks and future directions
References
Knowing in translation practice: A practice-theoretical perspective
1. Conceptualizing practice and knowledge
1.1 Practice theory
1.2 Knowing-in-practice
1.3 Knowledge and knowing in translation studies
2. A study of knowing in and through translation practice
2.1 The site of translation practice
2.2 Knowing as situated in time and place
2.3 Knowing in regimes of doings and sayings
2.4 Knowing as materially mediated
2.5 Knowing as embodied
2.6 Knowing as relational
2.7 Interconnectedness of practices and knowings
3. Conclusion
References
Subject index

This volume presents recent research that follows translators, interpreters and translation project managers into their various work contexts and environments. It extends the scope of analysis of translation research from individuals and texts to collectives in their social and material worlds. Particular attention is paid to current translation and interpreting practice, the genesis of translations, the handling and completion of translation projects in real workplaces and the factors that shape these translation/interpreting situations.0Covering fields as diverse as technical and literary translation, transcreation and church interpreting, the chapters show just how varied translation and interpreting processes and workplaces can prove to be. They provide new insights into the effects of the increasing use of technology in the translation workplace and the manifold requirements placed on translators and interpreters in a heterogeneous and fast-changing field of practice

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