Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies

Name: Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies | Selected papers from the EST Congress, Leuven 2010
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Selected papers from the EST Congress, Leuven 2010

Catherine Way Sonia Vandepitte Reine Meylaerts Magdalena Bartlomiejczyk(Editor)

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Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Introduction
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Who's who and what's what in Translation Studies
1. Introduction
2. The impact factor
2.1 The notion of impact factor
2.2 The main drawbacks of the impact factor
3. BITRA as a source of data for the measurement of impact
3.1 What is BITRA?
3.2 Advantages and limitations of the criteria used in the mining of impact
3.3 Raw data of impact - BITRA as of July 2010
4. The methodology for an IF derived from BITRA
5. A list of the 51 most cited publications in TS Classified by their impact factor for 2000-09 (Source: BITRA, July 2010)
6. Some interesting regularities
References
Top 51
Secondary sources
Translation in the network economy
1. Introduction
2. The delicate balance in transcultural communication, where the individual meets the social
3. Network economy
4. Characteristics of the digital network economy
5. Translation networks, informal and formal cooperation
6. Follow-up business network case study, the before-after method
7. Setting and findings of the follow-up study
7.1 Expansion and merger
7.2 Focus on core competencies
7.3 Increased computerisation
7.4 Introduction of a project management system
7.5 New selection criteria for suppliers
8. Research and methodological effects of the changes
9. Summary and Discussion
References
Many tracks lead to the goal
1. Introduction
2. Long-term study
2.1 Long-term studies - longitudinal studies
3. Attention, reflection, decisions and changes
3.1 Changes
4. Experimental design 1997 and 2007
4.1 Product evaluation and analysis of the results
5. Results with respect to changes
5.1 Average results
5.2 Individual results
5.2.1 Revisions and reformulations together
5.2.2 Keystrokes per minute
6. Discussion of the results: Assumptions and outlook
6.1 Successful translating and average values
6.2 When do translators develop their own translation style?
6.3 Do all translators have their own style?
References
Triangulating translational creativity scores
1. Introduction
2. The combined (product/process) approach to measuring creativity
3. Think-aloud influence
3.1 Influence on the creative performance
3.2 Amount of verbalisation
3.3 Comparability of data
3.4 Alternative data elicitation methods
3.5 Preliminary conclusions about the usefulness of TA data
4. The product-oriented approach
5. Comparison of results
6. Benefits of process analyses
7. Conclusion
References
Translation revision
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1 Participants
2.2 Material
2.3 Experimentation flow
2.4 Data-collection instruments
2.5 Method of data analysis
3. Results
3.1 Product data
3.2 Process data
3.2.1 Revision duration
3.2.2 Error-detection potential
3.3 Discussion
4. Conclusions
References
Understanding variability in interpreting quality assessment
1. Pleasant voice in studies on interpreting quality assessment
2. Variability in quality assessment: Methodological shortcomings and sociopersonal variables
3. Differences by sex in person perception
4. Subjects and method
5. Results
5.1 The quality ranking and rating patterns of female users
5.2 The opinions of female interpreters
5.3 Quality ranking and rating patterns for male users
5.4 The opinions of male interpreters
6. Discussion
7. Conclusions
References
A project-based methodology in translator training
1. Introduction
2. Pedagogy in the project-based methodology
3. The task-based syllabus in a project
3.1 Three phases in the task
4. The benefits of group work in the project
5. Enhancement of reflective skills in a larger group
5.1 Personal reflection in blogs
5.2 Group work and action research
6. Professional competences in the classroom
7. Initial thoughts and findings
8. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Incorporating translation technology in the classroom
1. Introduction
2. Corpora in the classroom: A review of the literature
2.1 Comparable corpora
2.2 Parallel corpora
3. Translation memory as parallel corpus
4. Corpora and TM use among professional translators
5. Parallel corpora and translation technology in the classroom
5.1 Educational context
5.2 Corpus-based activities with Multitrans
6. Conclusion
References
Tracing marked collocation in translated and non-translated literary language
1. Introduction
2. Background: Collocation and translation
2.1 Conflicting definitions of collocation
2.2 Findings in empirical studies
2.3 Marked collocation
3. Aims and methods
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Quantitative analysis of clusters
4.2 Qualitative analysis of clusters
4.3 Concordance analysis
5. Conclusion
References
Eye tracking sight translation performed by trainee interpreters
1. Introduction
2. Sight translation - Practice and research
3. Skill development
4. Eye tracking - A new trek in process-oriented translation research
5. Research questions
6. Research design and methodology
6.1 Source text
6.2 Participants
6.3 Equipment and settings
6.4 Eye tracking metrics
6.5 Procedure
6.6 Hypotheses
7. Data analysis and results
8. Discussion
9. Conclusions and further research
References
"Who are they?"
1. Introduction
2. Study design
3. A short passage from "A Very Short Story"
3.1 Ambiguity and underspecification: The personal pronoun they
3.2 The pun: friend or enema
4. Conclusion
References
The power of voice in translated fiction
1. Introduction
2. Translated narrative as communicative transaction
3. Voice vs. point of view
4. Discourse representation: A classification
5. Appraisal theory, intertextual/dialogic positioning and discourse representation
6. Discussion: The semantic and ideological value of discourse representation categories
6.1 Interpersonal meaning in narrator - character -narratee relations
6.2 Interpersonal meaning in implied translator - implied TT reader relations
7. Final remarks
References
Parallel Corpus
The author strikes back
1. Translation, authorship and paratexts
2. Presentation of three 'special' paratexts
3. Contents and modes of the paratexts
3.1 The authors' clarifying comments
3.2 The authors' comments on the translation practice
3.3 The authors' "irrelevant" comments
4. The authors' comments on the author-translator relationship
5. Concluding remarks
References
Les sources de la traduction et leur valeur heuristique en histoire
1. Introduction
2. Antécédents
3. Du texte, du paratexte et de l'usage des sources
4. Historiographie et Traductologie: qu'est-ce qu'un texte?
5. Traductologie et histoire des sciences: Pour plus de dialogue
6. Conclusion
Références
Zur Münchhausen-Rezeption in Portugal
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