The cultural turn in Community Interpreting. A brief analysis of epistemological developments in Community Interpreting literature in the light of paradigm changes in the humanities

This essay traces some of the major epistemological shifts in the humanities over the last century, in particular anthropology, which have informed and profoundly altered language- and literary disciplines in Western academia, especially those relating to the subjectivity of the observer (the anthropological ‘gaze ’), the complex interconnectedness of language and the surrounding socio-cultural network, the ephemeral nature of language itself, and the issue of textual authorship-ownership. This paper attempts to put into relief the interface of philosophical issues that arises as a result of these paradigmatic shifts with practical issues of professional ethics and role-definition in community interpreting. The paper also attempts to show that what emerged in translation studies as the ‘cultural turn ’ has already taken place in community interpreting (not necessarily across the board in other forms of interpreting) due both to influences from other related domains and to the specific cross-cultural nature of community interpreting itself.

Who is attracted to socially responsible organizations? Roles of job applicants' volunteer experience and motives

PurposeBased on the multiple domain perspective and self-identity theory, this study aims to investigate the effect of job applicants' volunteer experience on their attraction to organizations that engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Moreover, it examines the mediating effect of the CSR work role definition in this relationship and proposes a moderated mediation model of how the effect of volunteer experience on organizational attractiveness through the CSR work role definition differs according to other- and self-oriented motives.Design/methodology/approachHypotheses were tested with a moderated mediation model using a scenario-based questionnaire with a sample of 146 undergraduate students in South Korea.FindingsJob applicants' volunteer experience was positively related to attraction to socially responsible organizations, and the CSR work role definition mediated this relationship. The conditional indirect effect of job applicants' volunteer experience on their attraction to socially responsible organizations through the CSR work role definition was significant only for job applicants with lower other- and self-oriented motives.Practical implicationsThe study findings suggest that organizations performing CSR should examine whether job applicants have experience with volunteering activities and the motives behind their participation in such activities.Originality/valueThis study contributes to a comprehensive understanding of how job applicants are attracted to organizations that perform CSR and when such attraction is significant by considering their perception of the CSR work role definition and motives for volunteering activities.

Stages of Decision Automation: Impact on Operators’ Role, Awareness and Monitoring

The study investigated the impact of different stages of decision automation (action selection vs. action implementation) on participants’ monitoring, situation awareness (SA), and role definition in a multitask simulation. It was hypothesized that particularly because of being out-of-the-loop when working with full automation (action implementation) operators might feel accountable for the overall task, have an enhanced SA and show frequent information sampling. In contrast, operators working with partial automation might define their role limited to the only task not supported by automation, leading to limited SA and overall monitoring. Results reveal an automation benefit for performance but a decreased SA induced by automation. No impact of automation was found for monitoring. The only direct impact of stage of automation was on participants’ perceived role regarding active interventions into the system. In summary, different stages of decision automation lead to different role perceptions but with marginal effects on performance and monitoring.

Computer model of accounting of the scientific activity of the education system

The work is devoted to the review and analysis of resources of scientific information, the study of the possibilities of developing additional information arrays based on existing sources of scientific and scientometric information. As part of the work, approaches are proposed for storing scientometric information, methods for obtaining data, which will optimize the time of working with information and attract less resources for the implementation of work on the search for scientific information and its subsequent processing. The result of the work is a computer model that provides the ability to store scientific information in the database, as well as the use of various functions as a database administrator and user rights through the developed client C ++. The offered model of accounting for scientific activity has the following functional capabilities of software modules: introduction of new and removal of outdated information into a database; submitting information based on some criteria. The architecture of a computer model consists of such software modules as the user role definition module, the database administrator module, and the user module. The model works with information arrays, which are formed on the basis of resources and contain bibliometric and scientometric information and can act as parameters that be able to influence decision making and expand the range of possible cooperation of scientists. The application of the developed computer model allows organizing a flexible search for scientific information in the field of education.