As a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has been investigated from various perspectives. The present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-based study is an attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. A CDA approach, based on Fairclough (1989), Van Dijk (2004) and Farahzad (2007), was adopted to conduc...

Communication difficulties in multicultural clinical settings can be exacerbated by translators, but their actual impact on medical decisions has not been systematically evaluated. This study sought to determine the influence of translators participating in clinical encounters in which English-speaking clinicians offered amniocentesis to Spanish-speaking women by conducting systematic observati...

Translation ability is known as one of the most difficult language abilities to measure. A typical method of measuring translation ability involves asking translators to translate sentences and to request professional evaluators to grade the translations. It imposes a heavy burden on both translators and evaluators. In this paper, we propose a practical method for assessing translation ability....

This paper investigates the factors that influence the translators’ post-editing efficiency in a collaborative translation environment. We developed GE-CCT, a platform that enables hundreds of translators to be organized to complete one large-scale translation task together. On the basis of the platform, this paper made thorough analysis on the post-editing logs of 325 translators within 8 week...

Automatic machine translation systems are seen unable to produce publishable quality translation, so various computer-assisted translation systems that emphasize humanmachine cooperation have been proposed. However, translator collaboration technologies are underdeveloped, an area of great importance for large volume translation tasks. Ideally, all human translation knowledge is shared among tr...

Abstract This study’s author proposes integrating the lens of identity research into critical discussions professions, questioning role professionalization as a status mechanism. Addressing under-professionalized occupational domains, drawing largely from Bourdieu, she conceives “professionalism” symbolic capital negotiated by workers, to account for ambiguity professional knowledge and skills....