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Results of the validation of the PACTE translation competence model

Translation problems and translation competence
  • Allison Beeby , Mònica Fernández , Olivia Fox , Amparo Hurtado Albir , Anna Kuznik , Wilhelm Neunzig , Patricia Rodríguez-Inés , Lupe Romero and Stefanie Wimmer
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Abstract

The PACTE Group has been carrying out experimental research into translation competence since 1977. The aim of this paper is to present the results obtained for one of our study variables: Identification and Solution of Translation Problems. A brief introduction to the PACTE Group’s research project on translation competence is followed by a description of the variable Identification and Solution of Translation Problems, its indicators, and the instruments used for data collection. Finally, the results obtained are presented. These show that the translation problems identified by subjects varied greatly depending on the individual; directionality plays a role in the definition of the difficulty of translation problems; there was no relation between subjects’ perception of the overall difficulty of a text to be translated and the acceptability of their solutions to translation problems; and, finally, the characterisation of translation problems would not appear to be a feature of translation competence.

Abstract

The PACTE Group has been carrying out experimental research into translation competence since 1977. The aim of this paper is to present the results obtained for one of our study variables: Identification and Solution of Translation Problems. A brief introduction to the PACTE Group’s research project on translation competence is followed by a description of the variable Identification and Solution of Translation Problems, its indicators, and the instruments used for data collection. Finally, the results obtained are presented. These show that the translation problems identified by subjects varied greatly depending on the individual; directionality plays a role in the definition of the difficulty of translation problems; there was no relation between subjects’ perception of the overall difficulty of a text to be translated and the acceptability of their solutions to translation problems; and, finally, the characterisation of translation problems would not appear to be a feature of translation competence.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Methods and strategies of process research 1
  5. Part I. Conceptual and methodological discussions
  6. Interpreting in theory and practice 13
  7. Reflections on the literal translation hypothesis 23
  8. Tracking translators’ keystrokes and eye movements with Translog 37
  9. Seeing translation from inside the translator’s mind 57
  10. Metonymic language use as a student translation problem 67
  11. Sight translation and speech disfluency 93
  12. Time lag in translation and interpreting 121
  13. Part II. Process research in interpreting and translation
  14. A new pair of glasses 149
  15. Are primary conceptual metaphors easier to understand than complex conceptual metaphors? 169
  16. Innovative subtitling 187
  17. Errors, omissions and infelicities in broadcast interpreting 201
  18. On cognitive processes during wordplay translation 219
  19. “Can you ask her about chronic illnesses, diabetes and all that?” 231
  20. Part III. Studies of interpreting and translation expertise
  21. Effects of linguistic complexity on expert processing during simultaneous interpreting 249
  22. Process and product in simultaneous interpreting 269
  23. Developing professional thinking and acting within the field of interpreting 301
  24. Results of the validation of the PACTE translation competence model 317
  25. “This led me to start thinking about how this happened, and what the process behind it would be” 345
  26. Publications by Birgitta Englund Dimitrova 361
  27. Notes on contributors 367
  28. Index 373
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.94.22pac

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Methods and strategies of process research 1
  5. Part I. Conceptual and methodological discussions
  6. Interpreting in theory and practice 13
  7. Reflections on the literal translation hypothesis 23
  8. Tracking translators’ keystrokes and eye movements with Translog 37
  9. Seeing translation from inside the translator’s mind 57
  10. Metonymic language use as a student translation problem 67
  11. Sight translation and speech disfluency 93
  12. Time lag in translation and interpreting 121
  13. Part II. Process research in interpreting and translation
  14. A new pair of glasses 149
  15. Are primary conceptual metaphors easier to understand than complex conceptual metaphors? 169
  16. Innovative subtitling 187
  17. Errors, omissions and infelicities in broadcast interpreting 201
  18. On cognitive processes during wordplay translation 219
  19. “Can you ask her about chronic illnesses, diabetes and all that?” 231
  20. Part III. Studies of interpreting and translation expertise
  21. Effects of linguistic complexity on expert processing during simultaneous interpreting 249
  22. Process and product in simultaneous interpreting 269
  23. Developing professional thinking and acting within the field of interpreting 301
  24. Results of the validation of the PACTE translation competence model 317
  25. “This led me to start thinking about how this happened, and what the process behind it would be” 345
  26. Publications by Birgitta Englund Dimitrova 361
  27. Notes on contributors 367
  28. Index 373
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