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Translators As Decision Makers: A Dialogue Protocol Study Of Equivalence In Political Texts
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Translators As Decision Makers: A Dialogue Protocol Study Of Equivalence In Political Texts
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
One of the most common issues of translation as a problem-solving process is equivalence. Since equivalence as a textual relation depends on mental processes and choice of strategies, combining dialogue protocol and textual analysis, the researchers tried in the present study to identify different strategies and criteria used by undergraduate translation students to find equivalents in potentially problematic areas and, to know whether or not there is any significant relationship between those strategies and the acceptability of the equivalents. To this end, a sample of translation students at Jahrom University was asked to translate a news item in pairs. The pairs were required to report on what they were doing during the translation and record their voices. Analyzing dialogues and translation products based on Schubert (2009) the researchers found that most of the participants had resorted to internet, especially Google Translate, a...
