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Incorporating Ethics-Awareness Competence In China Translator-Training Programme
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Incorporating Ethics-Awareness Competence In China Translator-Training Programme
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
This paper addresses the imperative of embedding ethics-awareness competence in translator-training programmes in China, and illustrates the components and methodology that such training involves. Although ethical issues have been approached from a variety of perspectives in the wider discipline of Translation Studies in China, discussion about the role of ethicsawareness in professional translation practice has tended to centre on the perceived qualities of loyalty or fidelity to the source text rather than exploring ethics as a value-based professional system. Moreover, there has been little discussion as to how ethics-awareness might be presented in the translator-training curriculum. This paper adopts a more reflective and critical stance towards ethical issues, and in particular as to how ethics might be taught through the application of “identity-state-explain†model under social constructivism. There are different interpret...