This collection surveys the translator training landscape in international organizations on a global scale, offering a state-of-the-art view on institutional translator training research and practical takeaways for stakeholders.
The volume’s focus on training brings a unique perspective to existing research on institutional translation, which has tended to single out such themes as agency, professionalism, and quality. The book is divided into three sections, with the first outlining the competences required of institutional translators, the second exploring training practices at the university level and "on the job", for novices and professionals, across a range of settings, and the third providing a synthesis of the above. Contributions draw on findings from studies in both institutional desiderata and existing training programmes from diverse geographic contexts towards situating the discussion through a global lens. In linking together competences and training practices, the book enhances collective knowledge of institutional translation and provides valuable insights for universities and institutions that work with translators on both international and national scales.
This book will be key reading for scholars in translation studies, particularly those interested in institutional translation and translator training, as well as active professionals.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [ Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
This collection surveys the translator training landscape in international organizations on a global scale, offering a state-of-the-art view on institutional translator training research and practical takeaways for stakeholders.
Introduction
Tomá Svoboda, ucja Biel, Vilelmini Sosoni
Section I: Competences
1. Institutional translation EMT Competence Framework and beyond
Nicolas Froeliger, Alexandra Krause, Leena Salmi
2. Skills and knowledge required of translators in institutional settings
Anne Lafeber
3. Institutional translation profiles: A comparative analysis of descriptors
and requirements
Fernando Prieto Ramos, Diego Guzmán
4. Institutional translator training in language and translation
technologies
Tomá Svoboda, Vilelmini Sosoni
5. Institutional translation and the translation process: Cognitive
resources, digital resources and translator training
Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund
6. Translating for the EU institutions: External translation service
providers and training
Vilelmini Sosoni
Section II: Practices of translator training at university level
7. Institutional translation training in university settings: The current
landscape
Catherine Way, Anna Jopek-Bosiacka
8. Institutions outreach to and involvement with universities: How
international organizations collaborate with universities in training
translators
ucja Biel, M. Rosario Martín Ruano
9. Value creating pedagogy in the context of institutional translation
training in Argentina: A case study
Lorena Baudo
Section III: Practices of translator training: CPD in institutions around the
world
10. Taking Canadian revision workshops to institutions abroad
Brian Mossop
11. CPD practices in Chinas institutional translation: A case study of the
China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration
Tao Li
12. Translation-related CPD at the European Parliament
Valter Mavri
13. Translation-related continuing professional development at the European
Commission
Merit-Ene Ilja
14. Training of lawyer linguists at the Court of Justice of the European
Union: Induction and continuing professional development
Madis Vunder and Claude-Olivier Lacroix
15. Translator training at United Nations Headquarters, New York
Anne Lafeber
Index
Tomá Svoboda is researcher, university lecturer, and Director of the Institute of Translation Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic. Formerly, Tomá worked in-house with DGT EC, Luxembourg, and as a contractor for the ECB, Germany. He is a member of the EMT board, and his numerous publications focus on Institutional Translation Studies, tools and technologies in translation, and theoretical Translation Studies.
ucja Biel is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies and Head of EUMultiLingua research group in the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Specialised Translation. She has published extensively on EU/legal translation, legal terminology, translator training and corpus linguistics, including the book Lost in the Eurofog. The Textual Fit of Translated Law (2014).
Vilelmini Sosoni is Assistant Professor of Economic, Legal and Political Translation at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece. She is the vice-president of the Greek Association for Translation Studies and a founding member of the Greek chapter of Women in Localization. She has published extensively on EU translation as well as translation and technology.
