scholarly journals Corpus-based Priming for Inverse Translation Training

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-222
Author(s):  
Biying LIANG
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Translation

scholarly journals Inverse translation and the language student: A case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-193
Author(s):  
Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Inverse Translation ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article explores the agency of the student in translation in language teaching and learning (or TILT). The purpose of the case study discussed here is to gain an overview of students’ perceptions of translation into the foreign language (FL) (also known as “inverse translation”) following a module on language and translation, and to analyse whether there is any correlation between students’ attitude to translation, its impact on their language learning through effort invested, and the improvement of language skills. The results of the case study reveal translation to be a potentially exciting skill that can be central to FL learning and the analysis gives indications of how and why language teachers may optimise the implementation of translation in the classroom. The outcome of the study suggests that further research is needed on the impact of translation in the language classroom focussing on both teachers’ expectations and students’ achievements.

scholarly journals Reconciling Institutional and Professional Requirements in the Specialised Inverse Translation Class – A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-71
Author(s):  
Patricia Rodríguez-Inés ◽  
Olivia Fox
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
Professional Requirements ◽  
Market Niche ◽  
Professional Workplace ◽  
Requirements Development ◽  
Inverse Translation

Translating into a language that is not one’s native language is no easy task, but one which may be necessary in certain settings. If a market niche exists for professional translators whose working language is not their native language, as studies have shown it does in Spain, it seems appropriate that translation trainees should be encouraged to develop their competence in what is generally known in Translation Studies as inverse (A-B/C) translation, in order to satisfy market requirements. Given current European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requirements for training students for the professional workplace, most translation degree programs in universities in Spain include subjects in which students are required to translate into the foreign language. This paper describes an early attempt to reconcile institutional requirements (curriculum design, assessment, reporting) and professional requirements (development of translation and instrumental competences, together with so-called softskills) in the specialised inverse translation class in the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. A competence-based, learner-centred, process-oriented curriculum was instituted.

scholarly journals Translation Practices and the Issue of Directionality in China

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 896-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baorong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Inverse Translation

Directionality is one of the most interesting recent developments in translation studies in the West. The scene, however, is rather different in China with a long history of inverse translation. This article aims to outline translation practices in China and Chinese thinking on directionality while providing a few pointers for further research. Part one surveys major translation projects that were carried out or are being carried out and how Chinese translation scholars thought/think about directionality. The survey covers nineteen centuries from the 2nd century A.D. through the present time, albeit most of the data are devoted to the periods from the turn of the 20th century. It is found that although inverse translation is an age-old practice in China, the issue of directionality began to be seriously considered and debated only in the early 1980s, and that there has been increased attention to the topic in recent years. Part two briefly reviews the current status of research and concludes that directionality is an under-researched area in Chinese translation studies. The article ends with some suggestions for further research on the subject in the Chinese context, drawing on the latest research conducted in the West.

Investigating the conceptual-procedural distinction in the translation process

Target ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Alves ◽  
José Luiz Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Experimental Paradigm ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Processing Effort ◽  
Inverse Translation

This article draws on relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995) and its application to translation (Gutt 2000) to investigate processing effort in translation in relation to two different types of encodings, namely conceptual and procedural encodings (Blakemore 2002, Wilson 2011). Building on the experimental paradigm of data triangulation in translation process research (Alves 2003; Jakobsen 2005), it analyses the translation processes of eight professional translators when performing a direct and an inverse translation task. The analysis focuses on the number and types of encodings found in micro/macro translation units (Alves and Vale 2009; 2011). Results suggest that processing effort in translation is greater in instances of procedural than conceptual encodings.

Decision-making processes in direct and inverse translation through retrospective protocols

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Ferreira ◽  
Alexandra Gottardo ◽  
John W. Schwieter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Problem Identification ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Inverse Translation ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract Metacognitive aspects of decision-making processes were investigated in eight professional translators who translated related and unrelated texts from L2 English into L1 Portuguese and also from L1 into L2. Retrospective protocols were recorded after each translation task. Verbal utterances were classified into two categories (problem identification and prospective solution) and each one was divided into several subcategories. The data analyses evaluated metacognitive activities during decision-making processes. Results suggest that noteworthy differences between direct and inverse translation can be assessed via retrospective protocols and that translator performance and behavior might be closely related to the source text.

Translationese and interlanguage in inverse translation: A case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Ming Yue ◽  
Boyang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Language Complexity ◽  
Complexity Metrics ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Inverse Translation

AbstractCurrent translation studies do not present a clear distinction between ‘translationese’ and ‘interlanguage’, giving rise to conceptual and terminology confusion. To disentangle these two concepts, we start with a relatively conservative working definition of translationese, then find it necessary to first differentiate between direct and inverse translations, according to whether the translator's L1 equals to TL or not. Taking Zhuangzi (a Daoist classic) as a case, we made both inter- and intra-speaker comparisons among Lin Yu-tang's inverse translation, James Legge's direct translation, and the two translators' creative works in English, with well-established language complexity metrics and quantitative methods. Results show that: (1) Inverse and direct translations are remarkably different in terms of complexity; (2) Inverse translation demonstrates both features of interlanguage and translationese, with the former mostly at lexical level and the latter at syntactic level; (3) Similar patterns are also discovered in Lin's other inverse translated works, suggesting our quantitative comparative method proposed may be reliable to some extent. Such results support our proposal that translationese and interlanguage should and can be differentiated for both theoretical and practical purposes.

On Zero Translation in Howard Goldblatt’s Translation of Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1704
Author(s):  
Xiaodan Liu ◽  
Qinyun Li ◽  
Yifei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Target Language ◽  
English Version ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Inverse Translation ◽  
Parallel Texts

Zero Translation, mainly referring to transference and transliteration, is inverse translation. This study, by way of parallel texts analysis, discussed the application of Zero Translation in the English version of Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out translated by Howard Goldblatt, and its enlightenment on transmission of Chinese literature. It is found that Relative Zero Translation is commonly used in translating cultural-specific items, partly due to the huge difference between English and Chinese. Moreover, Zero Translation is complementary to other translation strategies. These translation strategies always work together to facilitate target language readers to better comprehend the source language culture behind the target text.

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