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1. The human translator in the 2020s : an introduction

Author

Gary Massey, Elsa Huertas-Barros, David Katan, Gary Massey, Elsa Huertas-Barros, David Katan, Massey, Gary, Huertas-Barros, Elsa, and Katan, DAVID MARK

Subjects
418.02: Translationswissenschaft, Professional translation, Machine translation, human translator, translator training, translator practice, Language industry, Translation competence, Translator training, Human added value, Language technology, Translation technology, Translation studies
Abstract

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reflects on the present and future of Translation Studies following the incorporation of terms and perspectives from industrial technology discourses and practices into the discipline. It examines the current status of translation technologies training in translation and interpreting curricula in undergraduate degrees in Spain. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of translation competence, translation revision competence and post-editing competence models, analysing their similarities and differences in the light of recent research on revision and PE training. It proposes a pedagogical approach to future-proofing the translation profession in the 2020s.

Published
2022

2. Wisdom in practice : phronesis and co-emergent learning in translator education

Author

Gary Massey and Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow

Subjects
Ethics, Experiential learning, 418.02: Translationswissenschaft, Aristotle, Professionalism, Emergentism, Phronesis, Social constructivism, Translator education, Translator competence
Abstract

The present chapter considers how Aristotle’s concept of phronesis, in both its epistemic and ethical dimensions, can usefully inform current thinking about how future translators should be educated, and how their teachers can learn with them – experientially, collaboratively, ethically and co-emergently. We do not live in Aristotle’s world, so it is illusory to imagine we can directly apply his concept of practical wisdom to twenty-first century professional life and learning. However, it can serve as a useful starting point to conceptualize a fundamental aspect of knowledge-building that, for want of being known or adequately categorized, has been largely neglected in the discourse on translator competence and didactics.

Published
2022

3. Handbook of the Language Industry : Contexts, Resources and Profiles

Author

Gary Massey, Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Erik Angelone, Gary Massey, Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, and Erik Angelone

Subjects
Translating and interpreting--Technological innovations, Artificial intelligence
Abstract

Digital transformation and demographic change are profoundly affecting the contexts in which the language industry operates, the resources it deploys and the roles and skillsets of those it employs. Driven by evolving digital resources and socio-ethical demands, the roles and responsibilities deriving from the proliferation of new and emerging profiles in the language industry are transcending the traditional bounds of core activities and competences associated with prototypical concepts of translation and interpreting. This volume focuses on the realities in the language industry from the fresh perspective of current and emerging professional profiles and of the contexts and resources that condition and support them. It traces the industry's evolution, maps its current state and considers key aspects of its workplaces, actors and practices. In an age when artificial intelligence is challenging traditionally held views of human performance, it addresses the issue of where and how human agents add value to the industry's processes and products, with a detailed, research-based consideration of the activities, competences, roles, responsibilities and tools that characterize the language industry of today and the near future.

Published
2024

4. The Human Translator in the 2020s

Author

Gary Massey, Elsa Huertas-Barros, David Katan, Gary Massey, Elsa Huertas-Barros, and David Katan

Subjects
Translating and interpreting--Technological innovations--Congresses, Translators--Training of--Congresses
Abstract

Has the language industry of the 21st century been racing ahead of the translation profession and leaving translators behind? Or are translators adapting to new sociotechnical realities and societal demands, and if so, how? The chapters in this volume seek to shed light on the profiles and position of human translators in the current decade.This collection draws together the work of leading authors to reflect on the constantly evolving language industry. The eight chapters present new perspectives on, and concepts of, translation in a digital world. They highlight the shifts taking place in the sociotechnical environment of translation and the need to address changing buyer needs and market demands with new services, profiles and training. In doing so, they share a common focus on the added value that human translators can and do bring to bear as adaptive, creative, digitally literate experts.Addressing an international readership, this volume is of interest to advanced students and researchers in translation and interpreting studies, and professionals in the global language industry.

Published
2023

5. Contextuality in Translation and Interpreting : Selected Papers From the Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning 2020–2021

Author

Gary Massey, Michal Kornacki, Gary Massey, and Michal Kornacki

Subjects
Translating and interpreting
Abstract

The papers compiled in the present volume reflect the key theme of the most recent Duo Colloquium sessions – contextuality. The psychological notion of context has been central to translation research for decades, and it has evolved along with the development of translational thought, translation types and tools. The theme of contextuality can be understood at any level, from the geopolitical to the textual, and embraced by both academic and professional considerations of translational and interpreting phenomena. It is centred on context, contexts and/or decontextualisation in translation and interpreting theory and practice from a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Discussing the above-mentioned notions is the subject of the present volume.

Published
2022

6. Tools for transforming translators into homo narrans or 'what machines can't do'

Author

David Katan, Gary Massey, Elsa Huertas-Barros, David Katan, and Katan, DAVID MARK

Abstract

This chapter suggests reconceptualising the role of the translator within the context of a translator as an adaptive expert, here understood in terms of creativity and the uniquely human ability to narrate – and proposes a procedure to foster this ability. Narrativity in translation has long been either undervalued or problematized (e.g. Baker, 2006). Yet, if we take as a given that the translation profession is at a crossroads (Katan, 2016; Massey & Ehrensberger-Dow, 2017), due in part to the advances in neural machine translation (NMT), then one way in which the translator may assert their added value is to focus attention on their uniquely human ability to knowingly create meaningful texts. The general thesis developed, is that while machines may successfully translate texts in the sense of copying or transcribing text from one language to another, the creation of texts meaningful for a particular readership in a particular moment is a uniquely homo sapiens or rather, as we shall see, a homo fictus or narrans ability. I will suggest that this ability can be enhanced through learning elements of the structure of narrativity and also through an adoption of the Metamodel (cf. Bandler & Grinder, 1975; Katan & Taibi, 2021) - all of which will help to further distinguish the human from the machine.

Published
2022

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