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Like any other profession, translation is subject to change. These changes are happening at a constantly increasing pace and are relevant for international and institutional employers, but also for translation departments, translation agencies and freelance translators. Starting from the skills of translators themselves and the needs of the ever-changing market, this article will outline the current job profile, as well as the knowledge that will be required of translators in the future. The comments on competences include a short description of the DGT EMT framework, as well as other competence models such as PACTE. The marked impact of technology and, more specifically, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on translation, calls for a re-thinking of this profession. Translation needs to be seen as a human-driven, technology-enhanced communicative activity with a vital social value in a globalised world. LSPs and professional associations, but also training institutions must take note of these changes and implement them in their work and training processes in order to safeguard the longevity of the profession and the employability of new translation graduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the concepts of rationality and rationalization in Max Weber. Drawing on the main analyses of Weber's works carried out from the Seventies of the XX century, the purpose of the paper is to conceptualize a nuanced understanding of rationality as a result of manifold processes of rationalization in order to identify useful points that help to deepen better contemporary issues. In particular, the origins and criticalities of the process of rationalization will be addressed to define rationality as a multifaceted concept. Western rationality does not represent neither the only extant rationality nor the "one best way" of modernization; rather, it is just one of the different forms of rationality, resulting from complex and contradictory processes of objectification. Drawing on the idea of Weber's rationalization as an interpretive scheme, it is possible to better understand two social specific dynamics: the co-existence of multiple forms of modernity; the limitations of modern science during the Covid-19 emergency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay analyses Lei che sono io/Ella que soy yo by Clementina Sandra Ammendola. The aim is to understand how the public space (Habermas, 1981) can be binding during the process of building a socio-cultural identity of a post-colonial and nomadic woman (Braidotti,1995), and how the literature is useful in order to analyse this process. Indeed, I believe the choices made by protagonist (writer and main character) are based on pre-constructed and predetermined labels because of habits and beliefs. Inherent not only in the external experience of the subject but, above all, in the more intimate one (De Lauretis, 2013). The methodological-conceptual approach of the essay proposes the analysis of the three parts of the autobiography through the emotions (Ahmed, 2014) that are believed to best describe Sandra's process of identity formation: disorientation, intolerance, nostalgia, happiness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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